where does the name soccercome from and where did it originate?
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Soccer is a slang word deriving from AsSOCiation Football and originated in England in the 19th century.
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England because many players come from there and thats where soccer started, just like canada is always the best hockey team, yankees for being in new york where baseball started.
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Federation Internationale de Football Association. i think its french
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Arguably soccer was invented in London in 1863 when men sat down to codify the games that they had enjoyed playing at their "public schools". An association called "The Football Association" was formed. The word "soccer" is short for "Association Football", as distinct from "Rugby Football", which was another sport codified by ex public schoolboys in the late 19th century.
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THE WORD SOCCER IS FROM BRITISH ORIGIN YOU  AND ADOPTED BY AMERICAN  PEOPLE, YOU CAN SEE THE ORIGIN  OF THE WORD SOCCER AND WHY IT WAS FORMED IN THIS LINK http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19990806
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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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Yes but Soccer was in fact invented as a name in the UK even though we call the game football.\n\n\n\nThe English still called it a game of "football" because the ball was played primarily with the feet but in the late 18th Century, the word, "soccer", was first used by a student of Oxford University by the name of Charles Wreford Brown. The students at Oxford were known for using slang where they added "er" to the end of words that they intentionally shortened. The game of Rugby was called "rugger". Brown shortened the word "association" and added "er" and the term "soccer" was born.\n\nhttp://ezinearticles.com/?The-Origin-of-Soccer&id=244527
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In England, the word 'soccer' was originally used in the mid-1800s as short for 'association football'.  This was to distinguish it from another form of 'football' that eventually evolved into 'rugby'.  The English have a tendency to contract words and the schoolboys liked to add 'er' to the end of words. So 'association football' became 'assoccer' and finally just 'soccer'.\n\nWhen 'soccer' got exported to the rest of the world, it kept the term 'football', since that was most descriptive.  It kept 'soccer' in those countries that already had evolved another game called 'football', most notably the U.S. and Australia.
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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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American footbal and ( english ) footbal - soccer. Alkso is different styles in tactics and techincs in mainly 5 countries.Italy, Brazil, Spain, Germany and Russia
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It's French, for Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). In English, it means the International Federation for the Association of Soccer/Football.
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it comes from Assoc., which is short for Association, because soccer is the game of football, as played under Association rules. Rugby football likewise became Rugger, though this is rarely used today.
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In England football (soccer) was the original ball sport played in many universities and colleges. The legend is that William Webb Ellis, while playing football at Rugby School, picked up the ball and ran with it this became a splinter-game called Rugby Football. When the English football league was established a number of these rubgy football clubs decided not to join in as the league did not recognise the use of hands as a legal method of play. Rugby became a popular alternative to football (soccer) but nearly all rugby clubs were called Rugby Football clubs. The game became immensly popular in America, but without a governing body to ensure uniform rules of play the nature of the American game began to significantly diverge from the Rugby played in England. Since the term 'Rugby' refers to the place where the rules originated it is understandable that the American sport adopted the word football to describe their similar but different game. In short American football was an offshoot of English Rugby football, which is itself an offshoot of the original game of football that the Americans call soccer. The word soccer is purportedly derived from "association football" and actually originates in England, but NOBODY in England calls football soccer at all, unless we have to dumb our programs down for American audiences. \n\nI also completely agree with you that football should only refer to the english game because (1) it is the original sport, (2) the American game has little connection whatsoever with the use of the foot, and (3) outside the US everyone calls this football, that's the entire world. I thought you guys believe in democracy? Billions watch not just world cup matches, but Champions League (the world's greatest sporting competition) and domestic competitions. Oh yeah, and American football sucks!
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Soccer, game played by two teams on a rectangular field, in which players attempt to knock a round ball through the opponents’ goal, using any part of the body except the hands. Generally, players use their feet and heads as they kick, dribble, and pass the ball toward the goal. One player on each team guards the goal. This player, the goalkeeper, is the only player allowed to touch the ball with the hands while it is in play.\n\nSoccer is a free-flowing game that has relatively few rules and requires little equipment. All that is needed to play is an area of open space and a ball. Much of the world's soccer is played informally, without field markings or real goals. In many places, the game is played barefoot using rolled-up rags or newspapers as a ball. Soccer is the world's most popular sport, played by people of all ages in about 200 countries. The sport has millions of fans throughout the world.\n\nOnly in the United States and Canada is the game referred to as soccer. Outside these countries the sport is commonly called football, or fútbol in Spanish-speaking countries, where the game is particularly popular. The official name of the sport is association football. \n\n****************************************************\n\nHistory of Soccer -\nBefore World Cup Soccer\nThe modern form of soccer originated in England in the early 1830's. The sport grew among working-class communities and was seen as a way of keeping young and energetic kids out of trouble at home and in the school; they could
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Never heard of "word soccer."  Sorry, can't help you.  :(
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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.
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Soccer is a wordplay on the word association as in the following text:\n\n"Soccer" was originally called "association football" during the formation of the Football Association in England in the 1860s. This was to maintain a distinction from the other football game being organised in England at the same time based on the handling codes, whilst Association Football conformed to the dribbling codes. The other football came to be known as "rugby" football, named after the Rugby School in England.