Comments on: The Origin of the Word “Soccer”

By: Daven

Daven — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:36:14 +0000

@Alan: except for the fact that around that time there were a ridiculous number of popular sports that were called XYZ Football, so it isn’t necessarily the case that people would have called it just Football as that wouldn’t have said anything about what sport it was. This is probably why there are no early references of it just being called the singular term “Football”, but there are of it being called Soccer and the full name, Association Football.

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:44:06 +0000

I think your all missing something, if soccer was derived from the Association Football – they surely the Football part of Association Football, predates the Soccer.
Hence the game was known as football before soccer. I am sure the word soccer is never used on the terraces in any stadium in the UK, and using the phrase on the terraces will show you for the fool you are.

By: Daven

Daven — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:16:12 +0000

@fischy: If you read a little closer, you’ll see I said that “soccer” came before the first reference of Association Football being called just “football”.

By: fischy

fischy — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:51:54 +0000

Just got linked to this by the Redskins Blog, in connection to the ticket sale for the USMNT vs. Brazil. I applaud you for chronicling the long, rich tradition of the soccer name, but your comments seem contradictory.

You claim that soccer came before football, which cannot be true, if “soccer” is derived from “Association Football”. It might have had some currency before football (without “Association”) was more the more widely accepted name, but even that seems dubious. “Association,” as you say, was adopted to distinguish it from other games referred to as football. So, “football” must have come first.

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By: Johnny

Johnny — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:18:30 +0000

I find a lot of records that show that “Charles Wreford-Brown (9 October 1866 – 26 November 1951). ”

That would make it hard for him to say “soccer” in 1863, as you mentioned.