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What is the origin of the word ‘soccer’?

(Abin Ben, Kollam)

According to scholars, ‘soccer’ is a slang term coined by university students in England to refer to Association Football. The word comes from the alteration of ‘assoc’: the short form of ‘association’. In the beginning, the word was spelt ‘socca’, later it became ‘soccer’.

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