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Soccer Match !

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DreamsOfA47:
4129R I can't tell you why American Football is called thus aside from the apocryphal the ball is 12 inches, or 1 foot, long but I did figure out why soccer is called soccer in the states if y'all want some useless trivia!

4129R:
Soccer should be short for Association Football.

What a boring match.

DreamsOfA47:
Yup! That coupled with the slang trend of the time of shortening words and adding -er to the end of it took Association Football to Asoc to Soccer. Languages are funny

dakazman:
  I didn’t get to watch but I did hear it was … sorry … 🫢…I’m not going to spoil it for people who set their DVR’s  to record.
 Dakazman
 

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