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by dontaskme on October 29th, 2004

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Why do Americans call soccer (a sport played with foot) "soccer" while calling football (a sport played with the hands) "football"?

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  • by The Leningrad Cowboy on January 14th, 2005

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    'Soccer' can not have been used before 'football', as otherwise the Football As'soc'iation would not have been named so. I will concur, though, that 'soccer' was used in Britain before the US.

    Maybe I wasn't eloquent: the word 'association' was certainly not named after the sport, but before the sport, from French meaning congregate or join together.

    Association Football was so-called because of the association of teams which wanted to play against each other with the same rules.

    Soccer took it's name from Association Football.

    Therefore, 'soccer' must have been used after the word 'football'.

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