Soccer Terms

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Soccer Kicks Back

Soccer has to be one of the original sports games every played by people. I can just imagine cave dwellers kicking around the old soccer ball. Or maybe it was a soccer rock? A soccer coconut perhaps? It’s got to be one of the simplest form of sports play imaginable. I mean, really, I kick the ball this way and you try to kick the ball that way. Whether the ball (coconut?) goes more this way or more that way determines the winner. While it may be easy for me to imagine soccer being kicked around by a bunch of caveman sports enthusiasts, the earliest official record of soccer by played was in China about 3000 years ago. Wow, that’s like 750 World Cups, if anyone was keeping track.

Ultimate Soccer Header

Soccer is also kind of bizarre, in that it’s one of the few sports I can think of where you use your head for more than just strategizing. You actually can use your head to make contact with the ball. Imagine trying that in football (American) or hockey for that matter. Nothing link deflecting a slap shot with the forehead for a game winning goal. Stitches don’t hurt that much. Those soccer guys are kinda funny that way. But the ultimate head shot in soccer was a little more bizarre. Gruesome actually. Apparently in more medieval times, the head of a defeated Dannish prince was used as the ball by early day soccer hooligans in the east of England. Yuck. Think I’d be shopping for some new soccer shoes after that match. It’s a wonder soccer ever caught on with the Danes after a defeat like that one.

Soccer Wars

As with many games these days, soccer had it’s origins on the battlefield. Rival towns would play soccer against each other, with little or no rules, and massive sized teams. Violent, bloody games, with hundreds of people kicking, punching, tripping in an attempt to win the soccer match. Sounds kind of like today, except today, that sounds like a more apt description of the fans instead of the players. You think it’s tough being a soccer referee today, imagine a few hundred years ago. At least today, they keep the fans and referees separated. As time went on, and the local authorities realized that banning soccer wasn’t going to work, more civilized soccer fans brought rules and order to the game of soccer. Not everyone agreed, and there were some splinter groups that went off and formed derivatives of the game. Rugby was one.

Soccer As Civilized Play

So today we have the modern game of soccer that we even allow our children to play. A far reach from the early beginnings of the sport. Perhaps an analogy can be drawn between soccer and many new forms of expression. In the beginning, things can be a bloody mess, but a few thousand years of civility and anything can be reduced to child’s play.

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In England, if Soccer is called Foot Ball- what do they call soccer?

What ever they call soccer- Rick “Sav” Savage from Def Leppard played it and was gonna make a living off of it!

Soccer is the same game as football not to be confused with American (People refer to it as gridiron outside of both nations) or Canadian football (CFL).

All Soccer means is short for association football. In both the USA and Canada it would be very confusing to refer to soccer as football. Term football in America goes back as early as 1869 when Rutgers challenged Princeton to a sporting contest that was more soccer/rugby then American Football.They borrowed the rules of the game from the London Football Association, but changed the rules around such as allowing the use of hands

http://www.usafootball.com/about-us/history-of-the-sport/collegiate/index.php

In 1875 Walter Camp the father of American Football was responsible for getting the rules written. At one time USA Soccer Federation called itself the United States Football Association 1913-1944, 1945-1973 U.S. Soccer Football Association a real mouthful.

I wouldn’t’ get hung up on the terminology, because in Australia they call their national team “socceroos”. I just found out the web sight for New Zealand is WWW.NZSOCCER.COM. Finally there is a magazine called “World Soccer” Good rule of thumb outside of Canada, New Zealand, and USA call it football some people get touchy.

http://www.worldsoccer.com/magazine/

Where did the term soccer come from?

http://www.soccerhall.org/ColinJose/Where%20Did%20the%20Term%20Soccer%20Come%20From.htm

Does it seem like soccer aficionados speak a language all their own? It sure seems like it to me, and I’ve been playing the game for over 20 years. I put an article on the front page of this blog to help explain the most common soccer terms in plain English. Hopefully this list will help soccer moms everywhere (and soccer dads too, for that matter)to better understand what their little athlete is talking about! Click Here For Access: Soccer Terms.