You traitor!!! Well …half traitor !
Nobody on the mainland calls it soccer since the 19th century, mate.
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But it’s not an American term as you said. QED
I would always have considered Gaelic is the shorthand for gaelic football. Growing up football always meant association football and gaelic was the shite they played in west clare
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I might watch the football and play a game of soccer.
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As a young lad we always called it nothing but soccer, late r on I’d have referred to it as footie the odd time but still soccer, more so for playing than watching, I’d ask someone if they’d seen the football last night but ask them who they played soccer for.
Kids in Limerick only ever refer to it as soccer
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I’ve never heard anybody in Cork call it football
Munster and Connacht are almost exclusively soccer I’d say as the areas with the least British influence
I think @Julio_Geordio has something, when you watch it on tv it can be football, but the game that you play is soccer
This is a thinker.
It is an American term, as Americans only call the sport soccer. It’s roots may be British, but it hasn’t been used in Britain since the 19th century. I would suggest the word the Irish are using is Sacar.
I wonder where that came from
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The British, like carr for car.
Gluistean is Irish for car. Only tans would say carr as Gaeilge
Carr is the original word I think. I’m suggesting football is called soccer in Ireland for historical reasons. Why would the Irish call it soccer if the British call it football? When did the English start calling it football @Thomas_Brady?
We call it soccer because we have our own version of football, same as Australia and the US
This seems like the most reasonable explanation for it alright
There’s no ifs or buts about this debate.
It’s Soccerball. No more about it.
Always been confused as to why they called it ‘Soccer Am’ considering the English hate the word. 
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