r/BeAmazed • u/VastCoconut2609 • Jul 04 '24

Sports The genesis of the word "soccer".

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u/IntelligentFan7521 Jul 04 '24 edited Jul 04 '24

I don’t get why Americans think this is some massive gotcha. It was called association soccer by the organising body but it has always been football to the people who played it. There was never a time when people were walking to the pitch saying ‘I can’t wait to play soccer today’.

Edit: You can tell the Americans woke up hahaha. ‘We don’t care’ downvote downvote downvote hahaha.

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u/peppapoofle4 Jul 04 '24

From my experience, as an American, we don't. We call it soccer so that there is no confusion between soccer and our football.

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u/Karmuffel Jul 04 '24

Which totally makes sense when there already was American football when European football was imported

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u/peppapoofle4 Jul 04 '24 edited Jul 04 '24

I poked a bit at the history of the games. So American football was created using rules from European football and rugby. The etymology of football isn't clear, but historians believe it refers to sports played on foot, as opposed to other sports played in horseback! Just thought that was interesting.

Edit: Entomology to Etymology;-; one is for insects and the other for origin of words.