meaning - "Center" or "centre" in sports vocabulary?





Similar words that change from “-ter” to “tre”



I am researching some stuff about football (soccer), and I came across the words center and centre, both of them seem to mean the same thing (i.e., middle area) but I don't know why they are different. I found a couple of sites referring to the centre-back (one of the defenders), and in the same sites they write center forward (one of the attackers).


If center/centre in the two positions mean the same thing (and they do), does anyone have any idea why they are spelled differently?




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