The word "soccer" is a perfectly acceptable and commonly used word in written English.
It is used to refer to the sport of association football, also known as "football" in many countries. For example: The game of soccer is the most popular and widely-played sport in the world.
"I understand that basketball plays 80-something games, baseball plays this many games, soccer plays that many games, but this is a sport that's most-watched in America.
The US soccer stars were still smarting from a loss on penalties to Japan in the 2011 Women's World Cup final when they joined the show.
Back then, women's "soccer" was frequently depicted as a joke – or even something slightly shameful.
Chuck Blazer, a 70-year-old soccer chief, also admitted in the court facilitating the payment of a bribe relating to the 1998 World Cup in France.
Andrea Pirlo had been touted as the Gianfranco Zola or Gary McAllister de nos jours, but instead of going to either Chelsea or Liverpool, the midfield genius is off to New York City, which is the name of a soccer club as well these days.
More people are taken to hospital for injuries sustained playing Australian rules and soccer than other sports, but soccer still remains one of the safer team sports when the participation rate is taken into account.
The Billikens, Saint Louis University's men's soccer team, have won 10 national championships, and the first league in the area, the St Louis Soccer League, began more than a century ago, in 1907.
One resident described escaping across suburban soccer fields in his car, with "hell in the rearview mirror".
She was a child model star who was on the catwalk for Armani at 13 and became well known for her tumultuous relationship with a soccer star.
At first, I couldn't get a sense of her beyond the soccer mom cliche.
But when Clive Toye told me, 'Listen, we want to make soccer, football, as in South America.' Then we are going to make a good game".
