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Be A Good Sport (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 4 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

yeah the part where we call it what THEY CALLED IT WHEN THEY NAMED IT kinda irks me

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  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

    It was always called football first. Soccer comes from association as in "Football Association" so it definitely wasn't named Soccer first.

    Personally I don't really have an issue with either name but it irks me when Americans use the word football for something else when it already has a widely understood and well established international meaning

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  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago

    Just as soccer was derived from the original name, US football was originally "gridiron football" and evolved from there. I guess they could've shortened it to "gridiron" instead but we could also say England should've stuck with footy instead of choosing a random syllable from association, changing the pronunciation, and adding a cutesy "-er".

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  • [–] 1 point 11 hours ago

    Yes, it does refer to football association - soccer comes from the brits. they made it. when we picked it up, mostly after ww2, that's what it was referred to as.

    WE PICKED UP THEIR FUCKING NAME FOR IT BELLEND

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