by 
HungryGuy
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What Americans call soccer is called football everywhere else in the world (football in British English and French, futbol in Spanish, fussball in German, etc.). There is in an international body governing this sport, so it's safe to say that American soccer and British football are exactly the same sport, even if attracts far more fans in Britain. :) The official name of the sport is associative football. The international governing body that I mentioned above is referred to as FIFA, from the French "Federation Internationale de Football Associatif" (International Federation of Associative Football). It seems that at some point, "associative football" was abbreviated as "assoc," from which we somehow got the American version "soccer." All this is complicated by the fact that America has its own game called "football," with helmets and touchdowns and such. This game is completely American, although the rest of the world is beginning to learn about it. To distinguish it from soccer, other countries refer to it specifically as "American football".
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None. It is the same game--same rules, etc.
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the americans are wussies and the brits are 'men'
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Football = several sports, like: *American football *Australian football *Association football (soccer) *Canadian football *Rugby football
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Football's good: Soccor sucks.
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Terminology- it's the same sport.
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RULL AND PLAYING CONDITION ALSO SAME IN BETWEEN SOCCER AND FOOTBALL?
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Nothing at all the correct name is Football you know where you KICK the ball not pick it up and run with it. There is no difference Soccer IS Football and the Governing body is F.I.F.A. The American Soccer team plays in the same World Cup as the English and Rest of the World Football Teams.
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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 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 activites as not being real sports.
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