Why do some people call it soccer and others football, where did they both originate?

Jac

Soccer is an abbreviation for Association Football, like rugger is for Rugby Football. (Both early C20th public school/Oxbridge slang.) Football is the name of the game in almost every English-speaking country (and plenty of non-English-speaking ones, although sometimes in translation such as Fussball in Germany...), and fittingly so, since foot and ball make contact on a regular basis. Soccer is merely the nickname of that particular variant (set of rules) of the game. May 11 03, 7:57 PM