jasonk282
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That's because we already have "football" in the USA, it would only confuse people. Unless we called in European football.
here is why it's called soccer in the USA, The word "soccer" comes from an alteration of "assoc.", which is an abbreviation of "association football"
The use of the term can be traced back to about 1880: it's documented as soccer or socca in 1889, and socker in 1891. Soccer seemed have become the most common phrase by 1895. Originally it was only university slang; it was habitual for English university students in the 1880s to abreviate any word and then add on 'er' or 'ers' to it (so breakfast became brekkers, or rugby became ruggers). Because this linguistic habit belonged to an elite social group is probably why the name soccer never caught on among the masses in most of the world. Perhaps it would never have caught on in the United States, except that Americans already had their own preferred 'football' game.
here is why it's called soccer in the USA, The word "soccer" comes from an alteration of "assoc.", which is an abbreviation of "association football"
The use of the term can be traced back to about 1880: it's documented as soccer or socca in 1889, and socker in 1891. Soccer seemed have become the most common phrase by 1895. Originally it was only university slang; it was habitual for English university students in the 1880s to abreviate any word and then add on 'er' or 'ers' to it (so breakfast became brekkers, or rugby became ruggers). Because this linguistic habit belonged to an elite social group is probably why the name soccer never caught on among the masses in most of the world. Perhaps it would never have caught on in the United States, except that Americans already had their own preferred 'football' game.
I to this day don't get why the US calls her own Americanized version of rugby "football". In fact, rugby has more to do with "football" than "American football" has, if you know what I mean. Anyway...
