re: Good article on how soccer is more American than american football

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And you're wrong.

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Fun Fact: Soccer was a term coined by British school kids from the term "association football" which was used to differentiate the sport from "union football" aka rugby.

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Now British school boys of the day liked to nickname everything, which is still somewhat common. They also liked to add the ending “er” to these nicknames. Thus Rugby was, at that time, popularly called “Rugger”. Association Football was then much better known as “Assoccer”, which quickly just became “Soccer” and sometimes “Soccer Football”.

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