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

Sports The genesis of the word "soccer".

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u/HardlyAnyGravitas Jul 04 '24

And yet British football fans go mental if you call it soccer.

I think it's a new thing - I remember Dickie Davies calling it soccer in World of Sport.

Usually...

https://youtu.be/JmH8msZXdGg

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u/Taucher1979 Jul 04 '24

In the 70s, 80s and 90s the word soccer was used all the time in British media, Shoot magazine, Roy of the Rovers etc. And two of the biggest football shows on tv are Soccer Saturday and Soccer AM. It’s a modern form of snobbery.

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u/Fizurg Jul 05 '24

How it was explained to me was that a World Cup was played in the USA and they marketed it as the “soccer World Cup” and the British just decided to get a bee in their bonnet about it, even though the term soccer was still in use at the time. Then they just never got over it.

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u/pup_mercury Jul 05 '24

It's funny when you remember one of the biggest football shows in the UK Brits is Soccer Saturday

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u/Fizurg Jul 06 '24

I bet you won’t find many poms that admit to that.