What Was Your Celebration Like?!

[Tomkat]

(01-25-2022, 04:37 PM)MileHighGrowler Wrote: Or just call that other sport "soccer" since I've heard that name actually was used before it was called football and isn't some American invention made up to distinguish it from American football.  Either way...  welcome.  Seriously :) 

You are correct.


When did they start calling soccer soccer?



Brits coined the term soccer in the late 1800s to refer to Association Football, the sport we now know as soccer/football. "Soccer" was picked as a way to differentiate from another kind of football—Rugby Football.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-did-we-start-calling-football-soccer-180951751/