⌛ Soccer! For those interested.

I agree with you...USA was very good in the world champion ship.... but the point is that the still call it Soccer in USA..... instead of Football and that SUCKS!

Hope you read my version about American Football....


Jokes aside have a nice eve!

Benjamin

 

Offside!

Sorry Benjamin, No one here is trying to explain any rules to you, purely that it was you, that may have been offside, Your statement was then ONLY the US & CANADA used the term SOCCER nothing is Further from that Truth here. FOOTBALL is the Game, Soccer is the type.


Jack P.

 

Football vs. Soccer

Very simple explanation....the U.S. has had their version of "football" for many many years. For them to change the name from football to something else, just so they can change the name of soccer to football would just be ludicrous. People just need to get over it.....the U.S. has football AND soccer!! :D:D

 

Where did the term Soccer come from?

Answers.com - How did the name soccer come to be

The word Soccer started as a phonetically abbreviated vernacular word for 'Association football' coded by the 'Football Association' Est:1863 started by English public school students who took the 'soc' from 'Association' and put an 'er' on the end. The same students called Rugby football 'Rugger' but this word has largely fallen out of use. Typically 'an Oxford University student who played Association football and Rugby football' would be described as "an Oxforder who plays Soccer and Rugger". This is why before 1863 the word Soccer did not exist.Where Does the Term "Soccer" Come From?

From...OPERATION SPORTS.....

I was curious how the name came about...supposedly the English coined the term

"The British invented Football in 1863, full name Association football, the term football is the formal name while soccer is its nickname that was created by the English inorder to distinguish it from rugby football. Soccer became a shortened reference to the word asSOCiation football. Therefore, Football's nickname soccer is often used to refer to football in countries where another form of football exist...example..

America = Gridiron (american football)

Australia = Aussie Rules (australian football)

Although...Australia have now referred back to the formal name Football having replaced soccer with Football in its official title 4 years ago.

Origins of the Term Soccer for Football...
From the reference.com Web site under the search of "Football (soccer) names" you will find very a interesting article to help us to answer the question of Football/Soccer. "The names of football refer to the terms used to describe the sport most commonly referred to as Football (soccer) in the English speaking world.

Background
The rules of football were codified in England by the Football Association in 1863, and the name football was coined . The word soccer is a colloquial abbreviation of association (from assoc.) and first appeared in the 1880s. The word is sometimes credited to Charles Wreford Brown, an Oxford University student said to have been fond of shortened forms such as brekkers for breakfast and rugger for rugby football. In the late 19th century the word soccer tended to be used only at public schools; most people knew the game simply as football. Today the term association football is rarely used, although some clubs still include Association Football Club (AFC) in their name. The game is sometimes known colloquially as footy; the term footer was also once used but is now obsolete.
English speaking world

Football is more commonly known as soccer in a small number of English-speaking nations where the word "football" refers to a rival code of football developed within that nation, specifically Canada, Ireland and the United States, and also in areas where Rugby football is more popular than association football, such as Australia, New Zealand and the white communities of South Africa. In these countries "football" was often included in the names of the earliest leagues and governing bodies of the sport, but as that word became increasingly associated with other domestic form of the game so soccer became more widely used.

In the United States, the sport's governing body is the United States Soccer Federation. This body was originally called the U.S. Football Association, and was formed in 1913 by the merger of the American Football Association and the American Amateur Football Association. The word "soccer" was added to the name in 1945, making it the U.S. Soccer Football Association, and it did not drop the word "football" until 1974, when it assumed its current name. Today, "soccer" is the standard name for the sport in the United States, with "football" referring instead to Gridiron (American football).
A few Australian authorities, such as the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) have always used the name "football". In 2004, the Australian Soccer Association changed its name to Football Federation Australia, and announced that the official name of the sport in Australia will now be "football". This has been met with controversy and/or bemusement by followers of Australian rules football and rugby league, the most popular forms of "football" in Australia. Nevertheless some media outlets in some areas have accepted the usage.

In Canada, "football" refers to Gridiron (American football) or the closely related Canadian football, in both of its national languages. The usage of "soccer" is so uniform that even in Quebec the game is known as le soccer and the provincial governing body is the Federation de Soccer du Quebec.
In Ireland, Gaelic football is also played but nonetheless the governing bodies for soccer are the Football Association of Ireland, in the Republic of Ireland, and the similarly titled Irish Football Association in Northern Ireland. Many Irish people refer to both codes simply as "football" while reserving the terms "soccer" and Gaelic for occasions when context cannot resolve any ambiguity.

The use of "soccer" in South Africa is common to white speakers of both English and Afrikaans. However, black communities generally use "football", and the country's national association is called the South African Football Association. The Afrikaans word for the sport is sokker.

Outside of these countries the word "soccer" has not been commonly used and "football" remains by far the most common name to describe the sport, being the name officially used by both FIFA, the sport's world governing body, and the International Olympic Committee.

 

In my writing to you the word OFFSIDE was ment to be read as me ending my writing to you.

So instead off Offside I say Cheers, those Sangrias.... I know!

Benjamin

 

Salou!

:D I will have one or two for you later, Mind , I will make it SMB, as I am not that Keen on Sangria. have a good Sunday!


Jack P.