World Cup Bid! Obama grew up playing Football (soccer) in Jakarta Indonesia

[supermario128]

Kasz216 said:

supermario128 said:
I still don't get why we call it Soccer, who came up with that one?

"The rules of football were codified in England by the Football Association in 1863, and the name association football was coined to distinguish the game from the other forms of football played at the time, specifically rugby football.

The term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as a slang abbreviation of the word "association", often credited to former England captain Charles Wreford-Brown.^[46]"

So... it was originally an English term but they decided to go with a slightly less correct abbreviation.  Defeating the whole reason it was called association football in the first place.

Though as stated it is off topic.

 

OK, that explains a lot!