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[denialdesosa]

Hello Everyone !!!

I was wondering if anyone could help me out on this one 'Soccer'. How did this word come to be? Football is self explanatory, but soccer ?

[TF00]

Do a google search.

[CasanovaFrankenstein]

It is actually way different than what I thought it would be.

The rules of football were codified in England by the Football Association in 1863, and the name football was coined . The word soccer is a colloquial abbreviation of association (from assoc.) and first appeared in the 1880s. The word is sometimes credited to Charles Wreford Brown, an Oxford University student said to have been fond of shortened forms such as brekkers for breakfast and rugger for rugby football. In the late 19th century the word soccer tended to be used only at public schools; most people knew the game simply as football. Today the term association football is rarely used, although some clubs still include Association Football Club (AFC) in their name. The game is sometimes known colloquially as footy; the term footer was also once used but is now obsolete.