Why is Soccer called Football in Russia and other Europian countries but in north america it is called Soccer?

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• alright well im from america and honestly i cant tell you why ur football is called soccer. but for me i do play soccer and it doesn't really matter to me what the name is, as long as its the same game.

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  by striker11 on July 8th, 2008

• As long as you enjoy it!

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  by spoiledforchoice on July 9th, 2008

• "The question should be why do Americans call a game where you run around with a ball in you HAND football?"
  Hooray, someone brought it up.

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  by Anon on January 12th, 2009

• I think they called it football because Handball sounded too poofy for such a manly sport..

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  by American4FreeHealth on January 12th, 2009

• Well...there is european handball, they could deal with it :P

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  by Anon on January 12th, 2009

• LOL!

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  by spoiledforchoice on January 15th, 2009

• Hmm, apparently a lot of you ahven't read up on teh history of the name "soccer". It originated in England, from the term Association Football (to distinguish it from Rugby Football), and was abbreviated as soccer (asSOCiation). Even as early as the mid 1900s it was still called soccer in Britain just as often as it was referred to as "football".
  Ironic, isn't it, that people still give Americans crap for that? Do you hassle the Italians for calling soccer "calcio"?
  Didn't think so. Educate yourselves.

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  by lastwordx2 on July 1st, 2010