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Comment 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.

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Comment on The Origin of the Word “Soccer” 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.

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Comment on The Origin of the Word “Soccer” 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”.