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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
"soccer" was a name created by the British, Association football as opposed to Rugby Football.
Rugby Football was tweaked by USA coal mining teams and then by college teams in the late 1800's and it became American Football.
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Exactly. I get so bored with the whole soccer/football debate. I've heard perfectly credible european players and managers call it both. Roy Hodgson tends to say 'soccer' more than he does 'football', and a popular English tv show is called Soccer AM. It seems that a lot of the resentment is just nit picking because it's the standard term used in the US. It's totally irrelevant and no more than snobbery on the part of those who try to make it an issue.