What is the "real" story behind soccer...Where did it originate from?
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Cuju was the “true origin of modern football” and was popular in Linzi during the Spring and Autumn period (770 BC to 476 BC). \n\nThe small town of Linzi was the capital of the ancient state of Qi from 479 AD to 502 AD. \n\n“China is thought to have nurtured the earliest form of football, a sport known as cuju or 'playing a ball with the foot',” FIFA said last year in a report on its official website. \n\n\nThe German city of Hamburg will showcase the ancient game of “cuju” to back China's claim that it is the origin of football during this year's World Cup, state media quoted Chinese officials as saying on Friday. \n\nOfficials from Linzi, a town in the eastern province of Shandong, will exhibit replicas of a 2,300-year-old ball, the gate used in the game, and stone carvings and pottery depicting cuju matches, the official Xinhua news agency quoted Ma Guoqing, curator of the Linzi Cuju Museum, as saying. \n\nThe exhibition in Hamburg, which is one of the host cities for World Cup matches, will run from the end of this month until the end of November and is part of a world soccer culture show to coincide with the World Cup in Germany. \n\n\nDelegates from Linzi were invited in 2004 and 2005 to the centenary year celebrations of FIFA, the World Cup organisers and governing body of international football.
612647
Well, one theory is that it originated from an annual football game between the two teams from the English town of Ashbourne, Derbyshire. \n\nBut thats just one theory.
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The word soccer comes came from "assoc.", which is an abbreviated version of "association football".\n\n\n"From alteration of assoc., abbreviation of association football".
1111118
Finally, a Brit who knows they created the term!!  Never thought I'd see the day!!  What was the question again?  Oh yeah, Japan calls it soccer.  Go figure.  Anyway, the terms is English loosely from the term association as in FA.  Long long story to it.  Read this stuff and it will all make perfect sense.  http://www.gavinrymill.com/origin-of-the-word-soccer.html\nHappy reading.
662013
The inventor of soccer was some idiot american who was too dumb to call soccer by it's real name, FOOTBALL. The real sport of FOOTBALL was invented by an incredibly wise man, who was not a retard like the people who call FOOTBALL, soccer.
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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.\n\nFootball is more commonly known as soccer in certain English-speaking nations where the word "football" refers to a rival code of football developed within that nation, specifically Australia, Canada, Ireland and the United States, and also in areas where Rugby football is more popular than association football, such as Australia, New Zealand and the white communities of South Africa. In these countries "football" was often included in the names of the earliest leagues and governing bodies of the sport, but as that word became increasingly associated with other domestic forms of the game, soccer became more widely used.\n\nFootball, in its modern form, was exported by Britons to much of the rest of the world and many of these nations adopted this common English term for the sport into their own language. This was usually done in one of two ways: either by directly importing the word itself, or by translating its constituent parts, foot and ball. Most Romance languages use the word football, albeit with a different pronunciation and occasionally a different spelling: the (Spanish fútbol, Portuguese: futebol, and the French, le football is often shortened to le foot. \n\nIn Germanic languages (other than English), the term is usually translated (for example, German: Fußball, Norwegian: fotball, Swedish: fotboll, Danish: fodbold and the Dutch: voetbal. \n\nIn Italy, football is called calcio, from calciare meaning to kick.\n\nAnd Kick-Off, Field Goal and Punt are all terms to describe American Football whereby a player uses his foot to make the ball go in a certain direction.  So, American Football is played with the feet but it is played with the feet about as much as world football/futbol is played with the hands via the goal keeper or other players on a throw-in.  My question would be why is it termed football (in the rest of the world) when the goalie can use his hands all the time (provided he is in the 18 yard box) and other players use their hands to make a throw in?  It is a mixture of both hands and feet as well as your head, chest, thigh etc.  In my opinion soccer/football should be called "body ball" taking in the total amount of your body that actually touches the ball, unlike rugby and american football...just a thought.
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What does this have to do with Soccer?\nWhat is your question?
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Here's some info about it:\n\nThe history of association football can be traced back into ancient times, but the modern game has its roots firmly in the traditional football games played at the public schools of England. By the mid-19th century, the enthusiasm that some former public school pupils still had for the games of their youth led to them forming amateur football clubs, each playing to the rules of a particular school. When teams from different traditions played each other there were often disputes about exactly how the game should be played. In 1863 some of the clubs got together to form the The Football Association (FA) with the aim of creating a universal set of rules that would allow clubs to play each other without dispute. The impact of the FA was not immediate as football was still very much an amateur activity. The first professional clubs were formed once the working classes took up the sport, and businessmen saw an opportunity to make money from spectators coming to see star players. Once professionalism took hold the popularity of the game became immense and was soon spread throughout the world by British expatriates.
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In USA they used the word soccer to make a difference with football (american football) , but the word "soccer" is an English (British),  not an  American word.\n "Soccer" was originally called "association football" during the formation of the Football Association in England in the 1860s.  And the word soccer derived from the second syllable of the word "association".\nEnglish public schoolboys loved to nickname things, they had a tendency to add "er" to the end of many words. Association Football was better know as "assoccer" and naturally evolved into "soccer" which is much easier for a schoolboy to say. The word "football", however, was more descriptive of the game (i.e. kicking a ball with the feet!) and was the term more frequently used.  "Football" is the world standard name for "soccer".
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(European) Football is life, the rest is just mere details ;-)
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Soccer is an Amarican word. It was presumably invented because the Americans invented their own football which is a totally different game.
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If this is a serious question, I will give you the real answer...\n\nWhen the sport was "created" it was called "American football" because the sport of the world at that time was "football" (what is called soccer in the US).\n\nOver time, soccer became a little known sport in the US, and the "American" became unnecessary, hence American football became football.\n\nThe term soccer comes from the "Football Association"... at one time, football split into two sports: what we call soccer, and rugby.  The Football Association endorsed regular football, so those who played football became "soccers" from "asSOCiation" and those who played rugby became "ruggers"\n\nBest of luck!
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The proper name of soccer is "association football".\n\nSource-SAMMM
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The name of the sport in England was called "Association Football."  That was shortened in the U.S. to "Assoc. Football" then eventually to "soccer" from "Assoc."
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and is this related to soccer how?
645774
American football originated from soccer.Soccer is more universally known as "football"  because soccer players use their feet. Players decided to change the game with restrictions like the no-use of hands rule ....some players, who didn't like that, created rugby. The USA created its own version of the game under the original name "football" with more of a rugby style than soccer.Thanks for asking !
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>>>Rob L is correct!!!\nSport Organisation for Collective Contributions and Equal Rights (SOCCER) is anacronym created in South Africa and it has NOTHING to do with the origin of soccer (the game).\nSee this pages:\n\nhttp://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-12175.html\nhttp://electionresources.org/za/provinces.php?election=1994\n\n and search for the word "soccer".