“Europe” didn’t invent the term soccer. A specific group of people in England did.
Those people were upper class posh boys, the same ones who call rugby “rugger”. They are not the people who support football today or made football what it is around the world.
If you can’t tell, it’s an obvious nickname for something. The equivalent of one nation deciding to exclusively call basketball “shootin’ hoops”.
This is true only in the vaguest sense.
“Hoops” is an objectively better name for the sport ever since we got rid of the baskets.
why did you have to ruin my funny with logic and reason?
jokes aside i realize it’s a little more complex than i let on, but it’s the same spirit as the original post so meh.