What is the difference between soccer and football?

As the AFC Women's Cup nears, let's find out when women began playing the sport and the misconceptions around football and soccer.

Source: SBS Filipino

Highlights

• Women started playing a football-like sport in ancient China called cuju 200 years before Christ was born.
• Australia's women team 'Matilda' got its name from a 19th-century folk song 'Waltzing Matilda'.
• The term soccer came from a nickname Oxford students gave the 'association' football to differentiate it from 'rugger' football or rugby.

Pinoy Trivia Tuesdays is a weekly segment aired on the SBS Filipino radio program featuring interesting facts and tidbits about anything and everything.