Where did the word soccer come from?

Question

In europe its football but in the USA its soccer?

as slang in england we would call it soccer but football was how we mainly called it. yet why do americans call it soccer? football means foot and ball. where did soccer come from?

Answer 1

Short for Association Football, from England's FA.

Answer 2

it sound like sucker to me because the United Statians call it soccer always when it should be called football.

Answer 3

The term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as a slang abbreviation of the word "association". as in association football as it's sometimes called