r/SipsTea • u/Quenki • 15h ago

Gasp! Just American things

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u/Noble_Jerk 15h ago

or soccer

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u/LiquidSix- 15h ago

Americans didn’t invent the word soccer. Football used to be called Association Football, “soccer” is abbreviated slang of that.. which the English came up with, not Americans.

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u/Turducken_McNugget 13h ago edited 13h ago

It's still called Association Football. The governing body is FIFA which stands for (translated from French to English) International Federation of Association Football.

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u/RandomUsername78421 15h ago

Soccer is a British term.