www.hotforwords.com to request words. Why is football called soccer in some parts of the world? Hello my dear students… it’s FIFA World Cup Soccer time again! It’s football What? It’s football, not soccer. Not this again! FIFA stands for Fédération Internationale de Football Association Oh yeah.. that’s right.. they call it football everywhere else in the world, except for here in the US, where we call it soccer. Not just the US.. other places call it soccer as well! Really? OK.. I think it’s time for another lesson about Football and Soccer. So let’s get started! Intro I taught you in an earlier video about why football is called soccer in the US and football in most of the rest of the world. Show bit from video As we learned in that video the term Soccer was actually invented in England as another name for the game where you used your feet to move a ball around a field. It all started when the Rugby School thought it would be cool to actually carry the ball down the field instead of just kicking it. Football enthusiasts were horrified and split off from Rugby Football in 1863 and formed Association Football to keep the ball on the ground! Around that time, Brits also liked to shorten words and terms in funny ways, for example they called breakfast, brekkers and rugby was often times called rugger. Since Association Football was such a long name it was shortened to AsSOC. Football and eventually just Soccer. Since the term soccer was created in England you would think …
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