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Why is football called soccer in the US?

Why is football called soccer in the US? And why is Ameriacn football called football?

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Didg is right. According to Wikipedia :

The term soccer first appeared in the 1880s as a slang abbreviation of Association football, often credited to Charles Wreford-Brown.

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