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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

This is true only in the vaguest sense.

"Europe" didn't invent the term soccer. A specific group of people in England did.
Those people were upper class posh boys, the same ones who call rugby "rugger". They are not the people who support football today or made football what it is around the world.
If you can't tell, it's an obvious nickname for something. The equivalent of one nation deciding to exclusively call basketball "shootin' hoops".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Looks like the name is far more confusing than that. Apparently, 'football' used to mean multiple types of games, soccer started out as 'association football,' and then a British public school took 'association' and turned it into 'asoccer,' which spread to Oxford and became common there and then everyone else started calling it 'soccer' but then they dropped 'soccer' in favor of just 'football' except in countries which already had a football, which was sometimes the same as rugby.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football#Name

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

yeah, pretty much.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

"Hoops" is an objectively better name for the sport ever since we got rid of the baskets.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

why did you have to ruin my funny with logic and reason?

jokes aside i realize it's a little more complex than i let on, but it's the same spirit as the original post so meh.