2006-07-10 23:06:09 · 16 answers · asked by alfie1_2 1 in Sports ➔ Football ➔ Other - Football
It's short for asSOCiation football.
2006-07-10 23:09:33 · answer #1 · answered by artful dodger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sport remained popular for centuries in England under the name football. But the advent of rugby (1823) as a variant led to confusion. The London Football Association was formed (1863) to further the game that emphasized the kicking of the ball. This became known as association football and then, through abbreviation, as soccer. It was rapidly adopted in continental Europe, where it still generally goes under the name football. Other related sports called football are popular in countries including Ireland and Australia.
2006-07-11 07:56:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is correct that soccer is an abreviation of "Association Football". For many years , this was the correct name of the sport in England, although the vast majority of people simply called it Football
"Soccer" was first used by English private schoolboys in the late 19th century, in order to differentiate the sport from Rugby Football, which they called "Rugger".
2006-07-11 10:12:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As people have already said, it's a shortening of Association; The biggest mystery is why Americans feel the need to call the foot-based game "soccer" and the hand-based game "football". I have been told that American Footballers use their feet to run with the ball but that strikes me as grasping at straws.
2006-07-11 06:14:52 · answer #4 · answered by Stammerman! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is an abbreviation of Association Football, which is a term used in the UK to distinguish it from Rugby Football. However, we tend to use 'football' and 'rugby' respectively. Now, the Americans have an extablished and popualr game they call football (which is a sort of rugby foootball for men wearing armour), so they needed to use an alternative term to use for association football, and fortunately the term 'soccer' already existed. Left to themselves they'd probably have called it 'headball' or something.....
2006-07-11 06:13:34 · answer #5 · answered by eriverpipe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's originally a British abbreviation of Association Football. The Football Association (http://www.thefa.com/) is the governing body in England.
2006-07-11 06:13:07 · answer #6 · answered by GLR 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word soccer was made up by the English.
It is an abbreviation of Association Football.
2006-07-11 06:09:59 · answer #7 · answered by monkey_fluffer_1983 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The name soccer is derived from the name asSOCiation football in the UK, which distinguishes the game from Rugby football. Equally, it would distinguish it from American Football in the US and Aussie Rules Football in Australia.
2006-07-11 06:12:52 · answer #8 · answered by Pete M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
americans nicked the idea for all of there sports from the uk and changed the name to pretend there invented it
took rugby added a load of pads incase it hurt and called it american football (even tho u hardly ever kick the ball)
took rounders and added some pads and called in baseball
took netball and called it basketball
funny how its all lasses sports in england but the men play them in the USA (with added padding)
so couldnt call football football cud they because thats not a name invented by them
2006-07-11 06:23:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To differ from American Football.
2006-07-18 11:06:52 · answer #10 · answered by highburybooks 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋