‘Soccer’ is incorrect, or is it still the fine term for the beautiful game?

Saturday, June 6th 2026 - 08:00 UTC

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By Kirk Bowman (*) - At the 2026 World Cup draw, FIFA Peace Prize recipient and U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the game should really be called “football.”<br /><br />
“There’s no question about it. We have to come up with another name for the NFL. It really doesn’t make any sense,” said Trump, an apparently new convert to the round-ball game.He isn’t alone. The word “soccer” is, in some parts of the world, shunned by some fans. Read full article

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This is simply wrong, the term ‘soccer’ was not common usage before 1980, it was known but rarely ever used outside certain circles, namely the public-school boys or Oxford/Cambridge type students.

For the great unwashed it has been Football for the last hundred years, if not always.

Only the Toffs, the blue blooded rugger buggerers, ever called it ‘soccer’.
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