For those who are interested in the Queen's English (Victoria), as CaroLiza_fan alludes the word "soccer" means "asSOCiation football. That is a "soccer" was a person who played association football. But some time in the 1860s a youthful soccer at the Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, picked up the ball and ran with it across the goal line. Sportmen who went along with such an outlandish trick were called "Ruggers."
Sorry that I didn't explain the terminology. I never thought.
Although nobody ever uses the full name "Association Football", I used it in that post for consistency, because I wanted to show the way that the word "football" appears in all the names. And "soccer football" just sounded weird!
And, as ever, I have learnt something from you. I didn't realise that the word "soccer" actually referred to the player. I always assumed it was just an abbreviation of "Association Football", and that it came about because people were too lazy to use the full seven syllables when they could get away with just using two!
The things you learn on a figure skating forum...
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