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@FrogxLord, wow first time ever with top comment and I've been using this app for years. I don't know if I should be happy or not because instead of a joke it was only for this fact I knew. Regardless knowing this fact always makes me super pissed at posts like this that act like America is clueless
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Soccer is a British term, or at least it was. In the UK, the sport is called "association football". Some time in the late 1800s, some Englishmen were experimenting with nicknames. They came up with "Assocc", which became "Assoccer", which became "Soccer". The name "soccer" didn't catch on in Europe, but it did catch on in the U.S., where there was already a sport called football, which was based on rugby. American football dates back to 1869, before most people had been exposed to football (soccer).
The reason we call it soccer is because that was the nickname for it at the time in England when we brought it over. It isn't like we just made up a random name for it.