Where did the term "soccer" originate?

distro_dave

It seems that currently America is one of the only countries that uses the term "soccer" to refer to what the rest of the world calls "football". What caused the Americans to start using this term instead of "football"?

Originally asked by Marcus Swope on Stack Exchange (sports) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

According to this Wikia entry : Soccer became a shortened reference to the word as SOC iation football.

Full answer by Ron: https://sports.stackexchange.com/a/59 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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