Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Soccer is a British word which was coined in the late 19th century to differentiate football from rugby, it’s a corruption of Association Football. The Americans use it to differentiate between what they call football and what we call football. Oddly enough, Soccer fans I know in the States insist on calling it football anyway. John Lees, former BBC Sussex sports presenter always called it Soccer, so no need to apologise, it’s a perfectly acceptable English term.
It used to be soccer and rugger, many many moons ago.