The British coined the term soccer, NOT Americans - sports football
As an American, I often use the term “soccer” to describe the game the rest of the world calls “football”. As an American, who started playing the game after forty so he could coach his kids, I often use the term “football” to describe the game. They are both burned deeply in my brain. After you play the game, you cannot help but refer to the game as FOOTBALL. You spend the whole game using your feet to move the ball around…unless you are a goalkeeper.
So strong is the desire to use the term football for soccer after one has played, that it is very difficult to get it out of one’s head. Therefore as time went on, I would have to catch myself. In my brain would rise the term “football”, and then I would simply prefix it with “American” before I finally replaced it in my head with the American term, “soccer”. After all, I didn’t want to be seen as a communist and get deported to Gitmo.
I decided I needed to do some research. Why the heck do Americans refer to “football” as “soccer” anyway? It made no sense in terms of etymology. My high school Latin could produce no origin for it. I dug deeper. Lo and behold it turns out Americans did NOT invent the word “soccer”. Yes, indeed my fellow Americans, the British invented the term “soccer”. You are going to be able to win a few bets at the pub on this one. It is without a doubt a British term.Originally, there were not many rules in this game of kicking a ball around. Whole towns would compete against each other. These large “games” could turn into roving brawls and even riots. There were no real set rules and things could get very ugly.than the one which will be played in Qatar right now.
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