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Originally Posted by Jennysathome
It's Football. Association Football.
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Originally Posted by northeastener
Its Football, lets not have the Americans change the name of a game they dont even like
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Originally Posted by quasimodo65
OK, guys, you're right. I just wanted to make sure that the Americans know what this thread is about. Otherwise they would post their glamour cheerleader pics I don't want to see here ...
A very nice Football World Cup to all who like this game an its fans!
And no, I'm not American, I'm European.
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Originally Posted by PirateJohn
You are, of course, aware that the term "soccer" was coined in England, right?
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Um, soccer is a British coined term guys. The word soccer is an abbreviation of association (from assoc.) and first appeared in universities [in England] in the 1880s (sometimes using the variant spelling "socker"). See the full article
here.