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Linguistically creative students at the University of Oxford in the 1880s distinguished between the sports of “rugger” (rugby football) and “assoccer” (association football). The latter term was further shortened to “soccer” (sometimes spelled “socker”), and the name quickly spread beyond the campus.
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And then it became football, rugby became rugby football and America invented their own version, with rest breaks every minute, deciding to call it football and our version, soccer.
That's why we call it football.
Scottish Fitba. 
This is what I don't get. Rugby is sometimes known as Football Association, considering it is the offshoot of what most people called soccer...or as some Americans pronounce it, much to my annoyance, "Saawker". Yet people call "Soccer", "Associated Football". The governing body of English Football is The FA, as in The Football Association....forgive me, why bother calling something Associated Football, then call the governing body behind the game "Football Association"? Isn't that is a tad bit confusing?
Try asking an American to pronounce Notre Dame.
(In joke)
I have to stop long and hard every time I think of how to pronounce Des Moines to be honest.
In me scouse accent naturally. 
Try asking an American to pronounce Notre Dame.
(In joke)
lol, try ask some to pronounce "Adios", it will sound like "Ardios", yes, with a "R"
You mean instead of the British “add-ios?”
lol, AFAIK, I have never come across a Brit who pronounced it like that, though I do think that some comedy shows have pronounced it like that for comedy effects
And the word soccer comes from the word a-socc-iated, which is even weirder
