where did the name soccer come from?

Answer 1

This probably is not true but....

Football was going to be used for a new game in which players carried the ball with their hands most of the time in America. Thus soccer was the name given to the previous game known around the world as football.

Answer 2

Americans trying to be unique and different from the whole world. With their measurements, slangs and now a name for the most popular sport in the world. Soccer is only used by people who does not care about this great sport so I do not even have it in my vocabulary.

Answer 3

An american vacationist saw 20 english middle aged men running in the fields of county england fighting for possession of a dotted ball using their feet when they had hands and thought they were "suckers". A baller heard it and thought it was a compliment so when anyone asks them what they were doing in the middle of the fields on a hot summer day he said "******". It was later translated in old medieval england sports accounts as soccer and so the name stuck to this day.

Answer 4

America

Answer 5

the usa of course! everyone uses the metric system...we dont, thus making all american children learn two ways to calculate things. you dont see any other countries learning our way of measurements. therefore we also needed to use soccer instead of football because american "foot"ball is played with our hands...yes god bless america.

Answer 6

Origin of Soccer
Soccer, as we know it, was first played as a game in England in the mid-19th Century. The name is a slang version of "association football."

Its deeper origins stretch back much further in time and are more controverial. Certainly, different people have independently invented games using their feet and something akin to a ball.

Here is more input on those deeper origins:


Nobody really knows where soccer came from some say it was from the roman who used their enemies head as ball other say the Chinese, other say it came from South America where they used anything as a ball, including people and the loser would be sacrified and sometimes the winner. The only documented reference to the origin of soccer is from the observations of Herodotus who describes a game played by soldiers where the defeated team captain's head would be severed, dipped in melted rubber, and used for the play of the rematch.

It started in Brazil when a few children were playing together when they saw a bucket of soft rubber which came from a rubber plantation nearby. Then, one of them got an idea and turn it into a ball-shape. So, the childrens play with each other but not in the modern way. They just pass each other without touching with thier hands. Some tourist nearby happen to pass by and saw what had happen and decide to change the game with two goalpost and 20 aside.

Soccer was first played as a game by Roman soldiers, who used the heads of their enemies in a game with simple goalposts. So it's understandable why there is a rule against touching the ball with your hands. Just kick it again.

It began in Italy with small rocks, we now call bacchi ball, played by the Roman soldiers when bored that their post, progressed to larger rocks, then do to the difficulty in the weight, material was sewn together to form a large ball, each century there were modifications made, until today.

Soccer came to Europe from the Mexicans after a battle they would chop off their opponents' head and use it at a football. This form of entertainment was then taken across to Europe by the Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch etc. only they invented the ball.

The historical origin of soccer was in China in about 2600 bc. They used a ball made of leather and the goals were about 30 feet high and 20 feet apart and was played in celebration of the emperor's birthday. The name was called Tsi chu. It was played during the Hun Dynasty.

Soccer was invented by the Mayan and Aztec Indians in Central America. At the Mayan Ruins, in the city of Copan, Honduras, they have a one of the first soccer fields ever. This civilization dates back to more than 10,000 years ago. In this civilization, Soccer teams would compete against each other and the captain of the winning team was sacraficed after the game. The act of being sacrificed was considered an honor to these people.

From the history of soccer page at About.com: "There is documentary evidence that a a game or skill building exercise, involving kicking a ball into a small net, was used by the Chinese military during the Han Dynasty - around the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC. Earlier evidence - of a field marked out to play a ball-kicking game has been found at Kyoto, in Japan. Both the Greeks and ancient Romans played a soccer-type game which resembled modern soccer - although in this early version, teams could consist of up to 27 players!"

FIFA.com has an article about the history of soccer that credits the Chinese with inventing the game.

It is believed that the first recorded soccer game took place on a Shrove Tuesday in Derby, England, as part of a festival to celebrate the victory of English soldiers over Roman troops ( a.d. 217). By 1175 the annual Shrove Tuesday soccer game was a regular event.

It is correct that a lot of games were played in the history of mankind where something was kicked around. As well as tennis, volleyball or hacky sack are not simply defined by the fact that a ball is played over a net, socer is not defined by trying to kick something into a whatever goal. The game whe know as soccer today was founded in the English public schools in the early 19th century by simple school boys that played the game although it was mostly forbidden. They discussed and changed the rules of the game. Later the games were allowed and seen as good training for manlihood and fairness. To give an extra challenge to fair play and self controll the boys of Eton forbade the use of the hands. As not being allowed to use the hands is the main characteristic of soccer in contrast to rugby, I would say that was the moment when soccer was born. Soccer and Rugby parted and went different ways, the first became the sport we know as soccer today. Soccer later spread to the continent, where the first national game was Austria against Hungary.

Soccer was believed by scientists to have been started in the Han Dynasty in 1000 B.C. They think that it was played by the military to make sure that the soldiers were ready for battle. It was later played in the Roman and Greek civilizations, but with many more players and not that many rules. It is known for a fact that "soccer" was played in 600 A.D. in Kyoto, Japan. Later, football was played in the United Kingdom by people of all sorts. The king of England thought that soccer should be banned because of how dangerous it was, but no one could stop soccer because it had become too popular of a sport. Today soccer is all over the world and considered to be the most popular sport of all.

Answer 7

the americans. the whole world calls the beautiful game football, but they think there special so they go and invent a new word for it. i refuse to ever call it that. they call american football, football even though they primarily use their hands. go figure.

Answer 8

Soccer??? I really don't know!!!! Maybe ******!!!!

Answer 9

idk i think ppl just made it up one day. i know it had to do with rugby. that's all though.