Soccer: A very British term

A significant majority of uneducated football fans believe that the term 'soccer' is an American creation. This is not the case. The term 'soccer' is a colloquial abbreviation of association, as in association football.

Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski, authors of the excellent Why England Lose: And other curious phenomena explained argue that 'soccer' was used commonly in Britain from the 1890s until the 1970s and cite the emergence of the North American Soccer League in the 1970s as establishing the Americanisation fallacy.

It doesn't take long to identify the term's popular use in the UK and across Europe; television shows Soccer AM and Soccer Saturday, the popular magazine World Soccer and video game Pro Evolution Soccer.

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It took me about 5 mins to research this. Read a book!