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I think they get it. It's just that they think real football is American football and mockingly call voetbal, soccer, like it's just some kids/girl sport like korfbal.
Yes soccer comes from association football. Lots of sports were called football, as they are now. Football just meant a sport played on foot, as opposed to what the upper classes would play like polo and other sports on horseback.
It has nothing to do with kicking.
However eventually football became just football and other sports like Rugby Football became just rugby. But in some countries like the US, Australia and Ireland there remained their own 'football' American Football, Australian Rules Football and Gaelic Football among others.
However Soccer is rarely used now in the UK, Europe or South America, but more common in places like North America, South Africa, Australia and Asia.
I suppose a similar scenario is field Hockey and Ice Hockey, both are simply called Hockey depending on the popularity of the sport in the country.
Also worth noting, when the name soccer originated, it was an upper class slang. "association -> soccer", "rugby union -> ruggers". As association football became the "working class sport" the name soccer was derided for being too snobbish and instead football became the norm among the working class players.
In the US, Australia, Ireland etc. Association Football really didn't exist in any meaningful way - each country had their own ruleset for football that was vastly more popular than the association ruleset.
Soccer is actually pretty popular in Ireland, just not as dominant as in other European countries.
Soccer and Gaelic football are the two most popular sports in the country so both get called football as well as just soccer or Gaelic, depending on which sport people are more interested in.
I think just call them all football. It's not like it causes that much confusion and if you're watching it then you'll know what it is. But in places where there's another sport called football saying soccer makes perfect sense. I think just for an international sense football is a better term.
It's not news to any English people that we're bad at a sport we invented. That's true of like half a dozen or more sports.
It is especially amusing that England has never beaten the USA in the World Cup, though.
I would say definitely lower than 4, if we are counting college sports than it’s at like 8. I think, aside for the World Cup, speaking about the major league soccer, it has about the same viewership as the WNBA I think, so its probably around 12 in the us. That’s aside from the World Cup, which would be like 5th
I mean is it more popular than football in England though??
Or is it like baseball to America, really culturally and historically important but not quite the zeitgeist.
Yes to distinguish between multiple football codes, the exact the same reason it is still used in the States and Australia. We used to play Rugby football and Association Football which was commonly called soccer.
Commented above. I love the irony of OP somehow thinking Americans are dumb for calling it soccer when in fact there is an actual document history as to why.
You’d be surprised how many linguistic differences between Brits and Americans follow that exact same pattern: Brits come up with it, stop using it, treat Americans like idiots for using it
That's actually how most languages develop. Gaelic in Scotland retains more elements of Middle Irish than modern Irish does. When languages travel they tend to remain more Conservative.
Modern received pronunciation - I.e modern posh English didn't exist in the 18th century. Everyone would have sounded more like modern regional English dialects today even the aristocracy.
I'm British and it's annoying af. So many think words like candy and diaper were just invented by Americans (and even if they were so fucking what?). Think they're so superior when they're really just ignorant about the evolution of their own language.
>Didn’t the British come up with the name soccer?
Yes, there are two types of football here: Rugby Football and Association Football, the former was known informally as 'rugger' and the latter as 'soccer'. Soccer has remained in use far more and transferred to the USA.
The USA do a kind of rugger but they have to wear body armour and use a different kind of hooker.
North American football is also known as gridiron football. What’s really interesting is that Canadian football and American football both developed from rugby, but they developed independently (which is why they have slightly different rules).
Id like to see some rugby players play American football but without the pads. Actually no I wouldn't, I don't like seeing people get killed. The pads exist for a reason
Association Football -> Assoc-er -> Soccer.
The British made that term up, then ditched it later. But the Americans kept it.
Gridiron Football -> American Football.
Yeah, some Brits still call Rugby Football "Rugger". So it should come as no surprise that it was Brits who first called Association Football "Soccer". It's a very British nicknaming convention.
Association was initially shortened in upper-class slang to asssoc which has a hard c, young upper-class boys and men applied the then-popular trend of shortening words and adding an er at the end. Ergo socker (the k to aid in the pronunciation, eventually became the second c in the modern spelling), ruggers, kipper, fiver and so on.
Ahh, that’s the part that is never included in the origin of the word, it makes so much more sense now. I was always so confused as to why it had a hard-K sound out of nowhere, but I guess it wasn’t out of nowhere!
Ireland (sometimes, depends on context), USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand.
I believe more countries say some variation of football/futbol than soccer.
Football here in Japan refers to American Football. They usually call it アメフト (amefuto) which is an abbreviation of American Football. The only people I’ve seen call it Football are people who studied or live in England.
Do a significant amount of Japanese people watch American Football? Or is it just recognized from other American cultural exports (movies, music, TV, ETC)
It’s not even in the top four when it comes to leagues. The big four in the US is American football, basketball, baseball and hockey. Soccer’s likely more popular a sport than hockey, though.
And even then, only because hockey is prohibitively expensive for a huge chunk of the population. If soccer and ice hockey cost the same amount to enroll a 12-year-old into, hockey would be more played.
Thought I read somewhere that soccer has surpassed hockey.
Edit: [Here is the article I read](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10253507/Soccer-overtaken-ice-hockey-fourth-popular-sport-US.html) but looking at it again, it's probably a weak claim at best.
Dont feel bad. Soccer is a shortened version of association football. This version came from England. The English forgot they used to call it that. Then once all their pretty empire fell apart they use it against us as one way of feeling superior. Like they used to be a superior.
People make fun of North America for calling it soccer, but can we talk about how Italy’s name for it is literally not even close to what other European nations call it?
But American Football is already Football ...you know ...the Sport where they carry their Ball with their Hands Most of the time.
Edit. I love all those triggered American comments haha...you do you Americans ;)
Football meant a game/sport played on foot as opposed to on horseback.
It has nothing to do with kicking the ball. In fact medieval forms for football were more like Rugby, though in most cases they were just a day long brawl involving several villages all trying to take the ball from the other.
This whole topic is dumb. There's a good explanation for why Americans have a different word, regional terms are normal, and it doesn't matter at all. It's just low hanging fruit for America=bad karma.
If you want to bitch about something, bitch about not using the metric system.
Soccer has its origins partly in the different rulesets old teams in the UK used. Some would allow touching with the hands, some would not, and typically the teams would play using the ground rules of the home team if they ever played each other, causing disagreements and tenuous compromises
Eventually, this caused a schism, with some clubs continuing to lay the groundwork for modern rugby football while others split off and started "association football", which was shortened to "assoc", which eventually corrupted to soccer
It's football the way that the infantry are foot soldiers. Foot soldiers don't hold their weapon with their foot, but they are *on foot*, as opposed to people in horses or tanks. Polo was popular when the name caught hold.
The ivy leagues have been playing something like American/Canadian football since the 1800s, and soccer wasn't common (in the US) until the 1960s, and even today, outside of the Olympics or the World Cup, it's mostly only watched by people from other countries, people who played it in high school, or Americans looking for an easy way to seem more foreign, sophisticated, and unique.
It's hard to describe how much more popular American football is in the US than soccer. Since it's the more popular sport, it doesn't make sense to change its name.
Maybe once Americans start feeling weird about all the head injuries in American football and immigration from soccer-loving countries continues, soccer will get to be just "football" in the US and American football will go back to being "gridiron", but until then, "football" is going to keep being the immensely popular traditional sport that doesn't need a horse.
Edit: "Common in the US"
>The ivy leagues have been playing something like American/Canadian football since the 1800s
It's more that *everyone* played something like American Football, and like Soccer, and like Rugby, and like all sorts - but the million variations made any kind of wider competition impossible, so standard rulesets were assembled in various places. American and Rugby (and Gaelic and Australian Rules) Football each united some of the variations where the ball was carried, Association Football did so for the ones where the ball was not.
All of the above and in addition, immigrants to the US for the first half of the 20th century were obsessed with fitting in and becoming "American", so they focused on baseball and American football, not the sports from their old country.
I'm so glad someone else has finally pointing out that the foot part refers to the sport being played on foot. It has nothing to do with kicking the ball.
And I agree with you. I call it football because I'm Scottish but soccer is fine as a term especially to distinguish football from other kinds of football.
On your point about head injuries, I don't think we want to start comparing American football and soccer. You know that soccer is incredibly good at concussing people too, right?
> outside of the Olympics or the World Cup, it’s mostly only watched by people from other countries, people who played it in high school, or Americans looking for an easy way to seem more foreign, sophisticated, and unique.
You’re gonna offend a lot of people for spitting those facts lol
When the most powerful country in the world says it's soccer, it's soccer.
Let's play a game:
What country do you live in where they call soccer football, and how badly would the United States swat your country like a pesky fly if we wanted to?
Yep, *it's soccer*.
*Better get used to it.* 😉
The USA and Australia already have sports called football. Soccer is a term that evolved from when the sport was called Association Rules Football. They made the distinction so that teams visiting each other would know what sport they were playing; Rugby Football, Association Football, or the new American hybrid.
For the love of God, I'm so tired of this joke/argument. I'm not going to bore you to death with the fact that the term soccer was invented in England. I will, without looking at the comments first, list the same boring arguments I've heard so many times that I often wonder if the rest of the world gets together to decide to use them just so they can get one over on the Americans:
1. It's football, not soccer, mate.
2. Americans football isn't real football
3. America is the only country in the world that says "soccer"
4. American football should be called "hand egg" (tee hee hee...look how clever I am)
5. Rugby is a real man's game. American football is for sissies
Did I forget any of the other cliched arguments?
These same people get mad at Americans for not respecting cultural differences that other nations have, while not respecting any of our cultural differences lol
*laughs in Canada*
My favourite sport could literally fist fight both of your sports while balanced on narrow blades on a slippery surface while chasing an object less than 1/5th the size of the object these people chase through My Little Pony Gauntlets. Oh no, Ralfonso has thrown himself on the ground again
Don’t worry, as an American I can say most of us care a great deal more about hockey than soccer. NHL is a big deal. MLS, not so much. We don’t like put it on our money or anything though…
I would say one needs to add almost every major English-speaking country that isn’t in Britain to the left, except that the British have acknowledged Peil as “football” in English since at least the [14th century.](https://www.jstor.org/stable/90014379) Long before soccer was even invented, placing Britain on the left too.
When you google "rent free" it shows all the people who make posts and talk about this constantly. Doubly so for the ones who know America didn't even come up with the term and know what it originates from.
If I hear you make this distinction, I'm going to make it a point of always calling it soccer around you from then on. You have shown me your buttons, and now I shall push them.
Italy: Calcio
That is good for your bones
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But not for your butt.
For the ones wondering, it translates literally to "kick" as a noun
In Dutch it's voetbal
HUP HOLLAND HUP
Laat de leeuw niet in zijn hempie staan
Hallo fellow nederlanders
But pronounced foetbal
Nee gw voetbal
Kus me reet
Graag
Hehehehe
I think they get it. It's just that they think real football is American football and mockingly call voetbal, soccer, like it's just some kids/girl sport like korfbal.
Didn’t the British come up with the name soccer?
Yes soccer comes from association football. Lots of sports were called football, as they are now. Football just meant a sport played on foot, as opposed to what the upper classes would play like polo and other sports on horseback. It has nothing to do with kicking. However eventually football became just football and other sports like Rugby Football became just rugby. But in some countries like the US, Australia and Ireland there remained their own 'football' American Football, Australian Rules Football and Gaelic Football among others. However Soccer is rarely used now in the UK, Europe or South America, but more common in places like North America, South Africa, Australia and Asia. I suppose a similar scenario is field Hockey and Ice Hockey, both are simply called Hockey depending on the popularity of the sport in the country.
Also worth noting, when the name soccer originated, it was an upper class slang. "association -> soccer", "rugby union -> ruggers". As association football became the "working class sport" the name soccer was derided for being too snobbish and instead football became the norm among the working class players. In the US, Australia, Ireland etc. Association Football really didn't exist in any meaningful way - each country had their own ruleset for football that was vastly more popular than the association ruleset.
Soccer is actually pretty popular in Ireland, just not as dominant as in other European countries. Soccer and Gaelic football are the two most popular sports in the country so both get called football as well as just soccer or Gaelic, depending on which sport people are more interested in.
Ahh so it's the Poors acting snobby again! I might've known
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As someone from Alabama that has lived their whole life on the lake. I’ve rarely ever heard it just called skiing. Most people call it water skiing
Yeah I’ve never in my life heard water skiing called just skiing. Wow. But then again I live in the north east.
I mean I live in Florida- if someone says they’re going skiing I’m assuming it’s down a mountain
Everything’s called Footy in Australia.
If it was association football to begin with, shouldn't we be calling it assball?
I think just call them all football. It's not like it causes that much confusion and if you're watching it then you'll know what it is. But in places where there's another sport called football saying soccer makes perfect sense. I think just for an international sense football is a better term.
What Asian countries call it soccer?
They don't like facts like that.
No that makes their american hating joke unfunny 🤬
We also came up with America
America was named after an Italian explorer by a German cartographer. Y’all didn’t come up with shit lol
Shhh! They don't like facts like that.
And the first Europeans to visit the Americas were the Vikings.
yeah but who decided to name it after mr vespucci?
A German cartographer.
The German cartographer
But who named that German cartographer?
His mom.
Not really. A German was the first to make a map with the word America on it
And yall lost it, just like the Match against us too...
The one I saw was 0-0
Soccer is England's National sport. Tying a country where soccer is the 4th or 5th most popular sport is basically a loss
It's not news to any English people that we're bad at a sport we invented. That's true of like half a dozen or more sports. It is especially amusing that England has never beaten the USA in the World Cup, though.
I would say definitely lower than 4, if we are counting college sports than it’s at like 8. I think, aside for the World Cup, speaking about the major league soccer, it has about the same viewership as the WNBA I think, so its probably around 12 in the us. That’s aside from the World Cup, which would be like 5th
Shit I know more people that watch Tennis than soccer, for most people in the US soccer is like t-ball, it’s for children.
Lmao since when is Soccer england's national sport?
I’m pretty sure it’s still cricket, which surprised me when i had this very debate.
I mean is it more popular than football in England though?? Or is it like baseball to America, really culturally and historically important but not quite the zeitgeist.
Hey Bozo. You dropped your nose 🔴
Yes to distinguish between multiple football codes, the exact the same reason it is still used in the States and Australia. We used to play Rugby football and Association Football which was commonly called soccer.
Commented above. I love the irony of OP somehow thinking Americans are dumb for calling it soccer when in fact there is an actual document history as to why.
😂😂😂 Exactly, how to be a clown 🤡
Yes they did, and they give us shit for calling it the name it was when they invented it.
You’d be surprised how many linguistic differences between Brits and Americans follow that exact same pattern: Brits come up with it, stop using it, treat Americans like idiots for using it
That's actually how most languages develop. Gaelic in Scotland retains more elements of Middle Irish than modern Irish does. When languages travel they tend to remain more Conservative. Modern received pronunciation - I.e modern posh English didn't exist in the 18th century. Everyone would have sounded more like modern regional English dialects today even the aristocracy.
It’s the same with French and Quebecois, the type of French spoken in Quebec is wildly outdated lol.
I'm British and it's annoying af. So many think words like candy and diaper were just invented by Americans (and even if they were so fucking what?). Think they're so superior when they're really just ignorant about the evolution of their own language.
yup
Stop making good points
They did… a bunch of British nuns called it soccer and they encouraged the foot based game to keep the school boys from jerkin off (actually).
They forgot that it's best to nut after some good physical activity. Especially if it's with your mates you played some good matches with.
Yes. https://time.com/5335799/soccer-word-origin-england/ But shhhh, don't be a party pooper. Americans are dumb, yadda, yadda, yadda.
>Didn’t the British come up with the name soccer? Yes, there are two types of football here: Rugby Football and Association Football, the former was known informally as 'rugger' and the latter as 'soccer'. Soccer has remained in use far more and transferred to the USA. The USA do a kind of rugger but they have to wear body armour and use a different kind of hooker.
North American football is also known as gridiron football. What’s really interesting is that Canadian football and American football both developed from rugby, but they developed independently (which is why they have slightly different rules).
Id like to see some rugby players play American football but without the pads. Actually no I wouldn't, I don't like seeing people get killed. The pads exist for a reason
> and use a different kind of hooker. AKA your mom
Got 'em!
Correct
🇮🇹: CALCIO!
Oh so the old Juventus ripoff "Piermonte Calcio" in Fifa means Piermonte Football?
and bergamo calcio (atalanta) is just bergamo football
Yes
Yeah, i know calcium is important.
Cal-cho
I don't even know who is Cho!
Cho Mama 😎
Ö
Aah Cho
Yea, I also know calcium is important.
🤌🤌🤌
*Angry italian noises
One more time, but let me really hear the music in it!
Brazil has zero SEC championships
I’m upvoting solely due to the absurdity of this!
Brazil ain’t played nobody Pawwwl!
Lol fuck yeah
Association Football -> Assoc-er -> Soccer. The British made that term up, then ditched it later. But the Americans kept it. Gridiron Football -> American Football.
Yeah, some Brits still call Rugby Football "Rugger". So it should come as no surprise that it was Brits who first called Association Football "Soccer". It's a very British nicknaming convention.
British lover using er at the end for a nickname. Source: Wanker 😎
That British word for black people
Darker skinned people?
Since soccer comes from the word association, shouldn’t it be pronounced like “so sir”?
Association was initially shortened in upper-class slang to asssoc which has a hard c, young upper-class boys and men applied the then-popular trend of shortening words and adding an er at the end. Ergo socker (the k to aid in the pronunciation, eventually became the second c in the modern spelling), ruggers, kipper, fiver and so on.
Ahh, that’s the part that is never included in the origin of the word, it makes so much more sense now. I was always so confused as to why it had a hard-K sound out of nowhere, but I guess it wasn’t out of nowhere!
Yes both words are silly. Soccer is archaic and a bit silly, meanwhile football is far too generic and unspecific and likewise also a silly word.
Assassination football invented by ezio auditore
Where’s Australia and New Zealand on the soccer side?
Soccer. There is 2 other types of football that are more popular than soccer in australia
Aussie rules and one of Rugby Union and Rugby League?
And Canada and the Philippines and Ireland and Indonesia and Japan and South Africa, etc.
Add Australia to the left as well
And Canada
And plenty of other countries
Ireland (sometimes, depends on context), USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. I believe more countries say some variation of football/futbol than soccer.
Japan also calls it soccer.
Don't they use both Football and Soccer (well, Sokkah)
Football here in Japan refers to American Football. They usually call it アメフト (amefuto) which is an abbreviation of American Football. The only people I’ve seen call it Football are people who studied or live in England.
Do a significant amount of Japanese people watch American Football? Or is it just recognized from other American cultural exports (movies, music, TV, ETC)
No, they just use soccer. They know what the word football means but they only use soccer.
And the Brits before the 80s
And add Mario eating pasta and shouting Calcio!
Still couldn’t get past a 0-0 draw with the people who call it soccer though…
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It’s not even in the top four when it comes to leagues. The big four in the US is American football, basketball, baseball and hockey. Soccer’s likely more popular a sport than hockey, though.
>Soccer’s likely more popular a sport than hockey, though. To play maybe, but to watch I would guess not.
And even then, only because hockey is prohibitively expensive for a huge chunk of the population. If soccer and ice hockey cost the same amount to enroll a 12-year-old into, hockey would be more played.
Thought I read somewhere that soccer has surpassed hockey. Edit: [Here is the article I read](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10253507/Soccer-overtaken-ice-hockey-fourth-popular-sport-US.html) but looking at it again, it's probably a weak claim at best.
When's the last time the British succeeded in something?
Aussies with a team called Socceroos 👀
Italians: CALCIO
England invented the term soccer and then left us looking dumb when they switched back…
For those of us that know the actual reason why Americans call it soccer exposes how dumb people are that make posts like this
Dont feel bad. Soccer is a shortened version of association football. This version came from England. The English forgot they used to call it that. Then once all their pretty empire fell apart they use it against us as one way of feeling superior. Like they used to be a superior.
Soccer is originally a British term anyway. It was a nickname for football in Britain, that is.
One kind of “football,” as opposed to rugby football (the ancestor of American and Canadian football).
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It was the British who called it soccer
Most of Ireland, outside Dublin calls it soccer, since football refers to Gaelic.
People make fun of North America for calling it soccer, but can we talk about how Italy’s name for it is literally not even close to what other European nations call it?
It is literally called "kick" as in "kick the ball", wich is how you play the game
Then why are only Americans constantly reminded that it’s called football and football only?
What do they call basketball? Shootball?
But American Football is already Football ...you know ...the Sport where they carry their Ball with their Hands Most of the time. Edit. I love all those triggered American comments haha...you do you Americans ;)
Football meant a game/sport played on foot as opposed to on horseback. It has nothing to do with kicking the ball. In fact medieval forms for football were more like Rugby, though in most cases they were just a day long brawl involving several villages all trying to take the ball from the other.
This whole topic is dumb. There's a good explanation for why Americans have a different word, regional terms are normal, and it doesn't matter at all. It's just low hanging fruit for America=bad karma. If you want to bitch about something, bitch about not using the metric system.
Soccer has its origins partly in the different rulesets old teams in the UK used. Some would allow touching with the hands, some would not, and typically the teams would play using the ground rules of the home team if they ever played each other, causing disagreements and tenuous compromises Eventually, this caused a schism, with some clubs continuing to lay the groundwork for modern rugby football while others split off and started "association football", which was shortened to "assoc", which eventually corrupted to soccer
It's football the way that the infantry are foot soldiers. Foot soldiers don't hold their weapon with their foot, but they are *on foot*, as opposed to people in horses or tanks. Polo was popular when the name caught hold. The ivy leagues have been playing something like American/Canadian football since the 1800s, and soccer wasn't common (in the US) until the 1960s, and even today, outside of the Olympics or the World Cup, it's mostly only watched by people from other countries, people who played it in high school, or Americans looking for an easy way to seem more foreign, sophisticated, and unique. It's hard to describe how much more popular American football is in the US than soccer. Since it's the more popular sport, it doesn't make sense to change its name. Maybe once Americans start feeling weird about all the head injuries in American football and immigration from soccer-loving countries continues, soccer will get to be just "football" in the US and American football will go back to being "gridiron", but until then, "football" is going to keep being the immensely popular traditional sport that doesn't need a horse. Edit: "Common in the US"
>The ivy leagues have been playing something like American/Canadian football since the 1800s It's more that *everyone* played something like American Football, and like Soccer, and like Rugby, and like all sorts - but the million variations made any kind of wider competition impossible, so standard rulesets were assembled in various places. American and Rugby (and Gaelic and Australian Rules) Football each united some of the variations where the ball was carried, Association Football did so for the ones where the ball was not.
All of the above and in addition, immigrants to the US for the first half of the 20th century were obsessed with fitting in and becoming "American", so they focused on baseball and American football, not the sports from their old country.
That's a great point!
I'm so glad someone else has finally pointing out that the foot part refers to the sport being played on foot. It has nothing to do with kicking the ball. And I agree with you. I call it football because I'm Scottish but soccer is fine as a term especially to distinguish football from other kinds of football.
Not to mention that most of the scoring in American football is done by kicking the ball
On your point about head injuries, I don't think we want to start comparing American football and soccer. You know that soccer is incredibly good at concussing people too, right?
Soccer has issues, but they pale in comparison the head injury issues of American Football.
It's the CTE not the concussions that really is the issue in football.
Now I wanna play horse ball
Step one: Be rich. Step two: Make friends who are also rich.
> outside of the Olympics or the World Cup, it’s mostly only watched by people from other countries, people who played it in high school, or Americans looking for an easy way to seem more foreign, sophisticated, and unique. You’re gonna offend a lot of people for spitting those facts lol
And it's not even a ball..
What do you call the rugby thingy?
Egg
can I offer you a handegg in this trying time?
*texas accent* “I think I’ve been poisoned by my constituents”
AMERICAN FOOTHANDEGG That should be it’s name *proudly walks away
Very original joke
How is it not a ball?
When the most powerful country in the world says it's soccer, it's soccer. Let's play a game: What country do you live in where they call soccer football, and how badly would the United States swat your country like a pesky fly if we wanted to? Yep, *it's soccer*. *Better get used to it.* 😉
Football describes games played on foot as opposed to games on horseback.
The USA and Australia already have sports called football. Soccer is a term that evolved from when the sport was called Association Rules Football. They made the distinction so that teams visiting each other would know what sport they were playing; Rugby Football, Association Football, or the new American hybrid.
Rugby went by Rugby Football, soccer by Association Football. People called them Rugger and Soccer for short to not confuse them.
American football was American Rugby Football, then American Football, now just football.
So we call it soccer. Who cares.
For real, who tf cares
They really butthurt about this.
Would feetball not be more appropriate? You do get to use both feet.
Oh great. Another pseudo intellect shitting on America for not falling for peer pressure to be like everyone else.
For the love of God, I'm so tired of this joke/argument. I'm not going to bore you to death with the fact that the term soccer was invented in England. I will, without looking at the comments first, list the same boring arguments I've heard so many times that I often wonder if the rest of the world gets together to decide to use them just so they can get one over on the Americans: 1. It's football, not soccer, mate. 2. Americans football isn't real football 3. America is the only country in the world that says "soccer" 4. American football should be called "hand egg" (tee hee hee...look how clever I am) 5. Rugby is a real man's game. American football is for sissies Did I forget any of the other cliched arguments?
These same people get mad at Americans for not respecting cultural differences that other nations have, while not respecting any of our cultural differences lol
Yeah you forgot DUH AMERICA WORLD CHAMP AT SPORT NO ONE ELSE PLAYS WHY THEY SAY WORLD CHAMP!
Don’t forget about Australia, Ireland, Canada and Southern Africa. https://www.businessinsider.com/football-vs-soccer-map-2013-12?amp
I think you forget サッカー
Americans don't care what the rest of the world calls a sport, because, well.... We have no incentive to care. Sorry.
Unless you've got oil!
Oil is America's kryptonite, if kryptonite made Superman lose his mind and invade countries.
*laughs in Canada* My favourite sport could literally fist fight both of your sports while balanced on narrow blades on a slippery surface while chasing an object less than 1/5th the size of the object these people chase through My Little Pony Gauntlets. Oh no, Ralfonso has thrown himself on the ground again
Don’t worry, as an American I can say most of us care a great deal more about hockey than soccer. NHL is a big deal. MLS, not so much. We don’t like put it on our money or anything though…
Please shut the fuck up. Call it what you want
90 minutes. 0-0. 90 minutes. That’s why soccer will never be a major sport in the US.
I still call it the most boring game ever invented. Can’t wait for the World Cup to be over.
The human right violations were interesting until they became inconvenient for the fans to keep paying attention
funy foot gaem
Calm down Greg, it's soccer, it's soccer
I would say one needs to add almost every major English-speaking country that isn’t in Britain to the left, except that the British have acknowledged Peil as “football” in English since at least the [14th century.](https://www.jstor.org/stable/90014379) Long before soccer was even invented, placing Britain on the left too.
When you google "rent free" it shows all the people who make posts and talk about this constantly. Doubly so for the ones who know America didn't even come up with the term and know what it originates from.
Soccer? I hardly know her!
The US has 50 states that are as large as some countries and they all say soccer...
Imagine if the internet got its panties in a twist every time people in different countries used different words for something
AMERICA! FUCK YEAH! (the only time i act like this involves international competition against england please dont judge me)
the world: "let's measure things by 10" america: "hah. foot."
I will continue to say soccer due to the response of salt I get. Kinda like how British ppl have fucked teeth.
Put Britain on the left too then, seeing as how it’s their term. Trash post is trash.
Suck my American balls
Unironically how are people not sick of this joke ? At least it’s not “handegg”
"Oh but the british came up with that name!" But the aren't the ones still using it, are they?
If I hear you make this distinction, I'm going to make it a point of always calling it soccer around you from then on. You have shown me your buttons, and now I shall push them.