"Soccer" is an abbreviation of British origin, and was widely used throughout the British isles until at least the late 1970s. source: http://ns.umich.edu/Rele

"Soccer" is an abbreviation of British origin, and was widely used throughout the British isles until at least the late 1970s. source: http://ns.umich.edu/Releases/2014/June14/Its-football-not-soccer.pdf http://ns.umich.edu/Releases/2014/June14/Its-football-not-so...