Who will win the World Cup 2022 in Qatar?

  • Argentina

    Votes: 53 57.0%
  • France

    Votes: 40 43.0%

  • Total voters
    93
typical of Britain to blame Canada , usa and Australia for something they caused

Inevitably, the names would be shortened. Linguistically creative students at the University of Oxford in the 1880s distinguished between the sports of “rugger” (rugby football) and “assoccer” (association football). The latter term was further shortened to “soccer” (sometimes spelled “socker”), and the name quickly spread beyond the campus. However, “soccer” never became much more than a nickname in Great Britain. By the 20th century, rugby football was more commonly called rugby, while association football had earned the right to be known as just plain football.
 
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