Most countries think of the World Cup as a football tournament. Why do we call the game soccer?
Most countries think of the World Cup as a football tournament. Why do we call the game soccer?
Most countries think of the World Cup as a football tournament. Why do we call the game soccer?
kicks off on Friday, with the United States slated to play England this weekend. For the 10th time since 1950, citizens of the two countries will square off over a game they call by different names. Given that
favors football, why do Americans call the game soccer?
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It's an abbreviation of association football. Both soccer and American football come from the same set of precursor sports, which became popular in upper-class English schools in the early 19th century and spread across the Atlantic. All these games involved advancing a ball through an opponent's territory and scoring at the far end, but the rules varied from place to place. Ultimately, the version adopted as standard in the United Kingdom came to be known as association football, while another set of rules won out in the United States. Thus the Americans took to calling their gridiron variety football, and referred to the British sport by the slang term soccer, derived from the soc in association.
The history of football goes back hundreds of years, but the modern variety can be traced to the English boarding-school athletics craze. Every school played its own version of "football," which led to confusion when players from one school met players from another. As the game spread, there were numerous attempts to devise a set of rules that everyone could follow. These tended to be hampered by acrimony between the schools and by anxiety about . At least one impassioned advocate asserted that if English players were not allowed to hack one another in the shins, they might as well surrender to the French.
Finally, in October 1863, a group of representatives from 11 old boys' clubs convened at the Freemasons' Tavern in London to iron out a compromise. Calling themselves the , they held meetings for two months, then published . At the final meeting, however, the representative from Blackheath dramatically withdrew when the group voted to disallow shin-hacking and carrying the ball, longstanding traditions of the game as played at the Rugby School. Thus, at the moment when it was supposed to be unifying, English football split into two codes, association and . Less official—or less English—versions of the game also continued to go their own way. Australian rules football, for instance, had been codified years before the Football A and Sheffield rules football, popular in England's industrial north, wasn't absorbed by the F.A. until 1877.
From this Victorian snarl, still more forms of football emerged. The gridiron style that now holds sway in America evolved in the later 19th century, from versions of rugby and association football that had been imported to the United States from Britain. For many years, the gridiron game was only one of many forms of football played in America.
Around the world, the F.A.'s version of the game continued to be called association football to distinguish it from the rest. In the 1880s, popular British slang took the soc from association and turned it into soccer. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, soccer, football, and soccer football were used more or less interchangeably throughout the English-speaking world. After a while, however, football began to prevail in countries where the F.A.'s rules were most popular, while soccer rose to the fore in countries (the United States, Canada, Australia) where a different version of the game predominated.
The current
was founded in 1913 as the United States of America Foot Ball Association. It was renamed the United States Soccer Football Association in 1945. The organization finally dropped the word football from its name in 1974.
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Hayley Williams)　　Can we pretend that airplanes　　In the night sky　　我们能不能假装是那夜空中的飞机　　Are like shooting stars　　就像发射的明星一样　　I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)　　我现在真的只能抱有这样一个希望　　Can we pretend that airplanes In the night sky　　我们能不能假装是那夜空中的飞机　　Are like shooting stars　　就像发射的明星一样　　I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)　　我现在真的只能抱有这样一个希望　　(And it seems like yesterday it was just a dream, just memories)　　昨日重现 但它只是一个梦 只是一段记忆　　(Eminem - Verse 3)　　Let's Pretend Marshall Mathers never picked up a pen　　让我们假装Marshall Mathers（eminem的原名）从没捡起过一只笔　　Let's pretend things would've been no different　　让我们假装一切都没有变化　　Pretend people procrastinated had no motivation　　假装人们停滞不前毫无动力　　Pretend he just made excuses that was so paper thin they could blow away wit the wind　　假装他编造的借口是那样单薄如同一张纸 风可以轻易吹走智慧　　Marshall you never gone make it　　Marshall你从没这样做　　Makes no sense to play the game it ain't no way that'll you win　　无意义的玩着游戏 但你要赢也不是没有办法　　Pretend he just stand out side all day and play with his friends　　假装始终站在局外整天和他的朋友玩耍　　Pretend he even had a friend to say was his friend　　假装他从没有一个朋友说他（eminem）是朋友　　And it wasn't time to move in school no changing again　　而且现在不是上学的时候一切又都没有变化　　He wasn't socially awkard and just strange as a kid　　他不是难以应付社会知识向一个孩童般奇怪　　He had a father and his mother wasn't crazy as sh-t　　他有个爸爸 还有他妈妈不会鬼扯一样的疯狂　　And he never dreamed he can ripped stadiums he just lazy as shit　　他从未梦想过他能撕开体育场因为他像xx一样懒　　F-ck a talent show in the gymnasium bitch　　在体育馆里该死的才能演出　　You won't amount to sh-t quit day dreaming kid　　想逃避一切变回个小孩的日子数不胜数　　You need to get ya cranium check you thinking like an alien　　你需要去检查一下头颅来看看你是不是向一个外星人一样思考　　It just ain't realistic　　这一切只是不切实际　　Now pretend they ain't just make him angry with this sh-t　　现在他们没有让他因这该死的事而恼怒　　And there was no one he could even aim when he's pissed with　　现在没有人可以成为他的目标让他撒尿的时候瞄准　　And his alarm went off to wake him but he did’nt make it to the rap Olympics　　当恐慌来唤醒他时他却没能成功得到说唱的奥林匹克金牌　　Left to his plane and he missed it　　离开并奔向他的飞机空却错过了　　He's gonna have a hard time explaining to Haley and Laney these food stamps and WIC shit　　他将经历一段艰难时期 向Haley和Laney解释这些食物邮票和该死的冲突世界（一种游戏）　　Cause he never risked sh-t he hoped and he wished it　　因为他从未冒过险 他希望 他期盼　　But it didn't fall in his lap so he ain't even hear it he pretends that　　但是那些没有掉落在他的膝盖上所以他从未听到他在假装那些　　(Chorus - Hayley Williams)　　Can we pretend that airplanes　　In the night sky　　我们能不能假装是那夜空中的飞机　　Are like shooting stars　　就像发射的明星一样　　I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)　　我现在真的只能抱有这样一个希望　　Can we pretend that airplanes In the night sky　　我们能不能假装是那夜空中的飞机　　Are like shooting stars　　就像发射的明星一样　　I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)　　我现在真的只能抱有这样一个希望)
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