TheOctonaut, 1 year ago

This is true only in the vaguest sense.

1. “Europe” didn’t invent the term soccer. A specific group of people in England did.
2. Those people were upper class posh boys, the same ones who call rugby “rugger”. They are not the people who support football today or made football what it is around the world.
3. If you can’t tell, it’s an obvious nickname for something. The equivalent of one nation deciding to exclusively call basketball “shootin’ hoops”.