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Soccer was "invented" in England with kids kicking around inflated leather which over the years has been developed into what we see nowdays.

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'Association football' or 'Soccer' was wrote for and behalf of the Football Association founded 1863 by a man called Ebenezer Cobb Morley. The 'Laws of the game' as they became known were based on the earlier Cambridge Rules wrote in 1848. The main aim of the Football Association was to standardise the many forms of football played in England. The word Soccer started as a phonetically abbreviated vernacular word for Association football coined by English public school students who took the 'soc' from 'Association' and put an 'er' on the end. Typically 'an Oxford University student who played Association football and Rugby football' would be described as "an Oxforder who plays Soccer and Rugger". This is why prior to 1863 the word Soccer did not exist. It is probably worth noting the same students called Rugby football 'Rugger' but this word has largely fallen out of use.

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