Why is Soccer called Football in Russia and other Europian countries but in north america it is called Soccer?
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Football should never be called soccer in any country, football is a game you play with your foot. The question should be why do Americans call a game where you run around with a ball in you HAND football?
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Americans started playing football shortly after it was invented in 1863 by the English. They played it in all their universities. However american students struggled with the technical side of football. Their coaches became frustrated. In order to save face america and Canada invented their own sports so they would have a chance of winning something and could avoid global competition. Gridiron was invented and football hating became the national pastime. Most sports fans in america get their sporting identity from hating football, spending hours on forums or radio talk shows insulting footballers and their fans. Children who play football at high schools in north america are often abused by steroid induced gridiron freaks. Websites have been set up to insult football and try to prevent it from becoming americas national sport. Americans to my knowledge still play gridiron and baseball long after most people have dismissed these activities as not being real sports.
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I can't give the answer but I will tell you that here in the UK up to about 15-20 years ago, it was called soccer!
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Because America can do what we want!
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No idea. In australia we have lots of different names for all the versions. Aussie rules. Soccer. Gridiron. Gaelic. etc. Only arses call their own personally preferred version 'football'.
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Because Americans think football is played with hands. Americans think USA is the only country in the world. Americans are still stuck to the imperial measurement system while the rest of the World has moved on to the Metric system.
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Here in the UK....where FOOTBALL was invented....it was, is and always will be called......F O O T B A L L because it was designed to be played with the F O O T !!
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Football is more commonly known as soccer in a small number of English-speaking nations where the word "football" refers to a rival code of football developed within that nation, specifically Canada, Ireland and the United States, and also in areas where Rugby football is more popular than association football, such as Australia, New Zealand and the white communities of South Africa. In these countries "football" was often included in the names of the earliest leagues and governing bodies of the sport, but as that word became increasingly associated with other domestic form of the game so soccer became more widely used.
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The proper name is football. American football kind of evolved into what it is from variations of what we call soccer. It became more popular here than football proper and the name stuck.
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Because football was popular in America first?
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I guess because American football is funnier to watch then a ball getting kicked around a yard.
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cuz we already had a football, american style!
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Football is a collective word for many sports. Soccer, rugby, american football, aussie rules football and so on. Anything with..erm..a football!! Soccer is the proper word for it. Its just that the word "football" is associated with the most prominent football type game in any given country/area. In america American football is historically more prominent and popular so it was dubbed "football" first. So its termed soccer in the US to save confusion! Simple!!
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From Wiki:..... Today the sport is generally known simply as football in countries where it is the most popular football code. In countries where other codes are more popular, the sport is more commonly referred to as soccer, and indeed is referred to as such in the official names of the governing bodies in the United States and Canada. FIFA, the sport's world governing body, defines the sport as association football in its statutes,[47] but the term most commonly used by FIFA and the International Olympic Committee is football.
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Just searched and found this: The accepted origin of the word "soccer" is that its a contraction of the word "Association" with reference to "Association Football". The Football Association was formed in October 1863 when the rules were standardised by a meeting of eleven clubs. With one of the written rules now being that the carrying of the ball was not permitted this finally set in stone the biggest practical different between Association Football and Rugby Football. In 1889 the word was "socca", later it was "socker" in 1891 and finally seemed to settle on "soccer" by 1895. The word is supposed to have evolved in University slang, created by shortening the word "Association" and adding "er". They had other expressions such as "brekkers" for "breakfast" and "rugger" for "rugby."
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Football's country of origin is common knowledge globally and probably inherent to most five year olds. What isn't common knowledge is the correct name used to distinguish the game. Because the English(British/UK) currently address it as footbal and not soccer as in the US, they arrogantly assume Americans know no better. The fact is, the English Football Association formed the rules in 1863 and the name association football was coined to distinguish the game from rugby football. The term soccer originated in England around 1880 as an abbreviated form of "association" and was used extensively throughout Britain. As far as I'm aware, (in the north of England at least), it was called soccer up until 25 years ago. In fact many upper class people in England still to this day refer to football as soccer.
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Because we already have football, and had to call that something different.
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