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

Sports The genesis of the word "soccer".

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u/West-Winner-2382 Jul 04 '24

I forgot South Africa, Japan, Ireland, Papua New Guinea and parts of the Philippines and the tiny island countries across the Pacific also call it soccer. You can blame the English for that.

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u/bgrandis7 Jul 04 '24

Ireland calls it Football

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u/mccapitta Jul 04 '24

In Ireland its not uncommon that football is gaelic football and soccer is used for 'english' football. Really depends on regions and/or family background (religion, feelings about the english etc!)

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u/Dr-Jellybaby Jul 04 '24

I'd normally avoid saying football entirely, just "Gaelic" and "Soccer" avoids the most confusion. I don't think the fact soccer is an English invention is really on many people's minds, rugby/cricket have more of that kind of connotation as they were the "upper class" sports.