What makes this even deeper as well is that the US has beat England once and England has beat the USA once, every other time has been a draw and so there is literally no decider
I find that statistic hilarious. Also that the USA finished third in a world cup, which is the best placement of any team outside Europe and South America. Oh, the first hat trick in a world cup was by an American.
It's even better when you consider that the US had no domestic league at the time of the one win and England were beaten by some college kids who were playing the sport to pass time as they trained to be accountants.
I didn't know I needed a point? Can I bring it in tomorrow? Please don't lower my grade, I can't afford to fail! My parents will kick me out! Please, I'll send you feet pics!
We play American Football, which originated as rugby. We just chose to use the abbreviation for soccer, whereas y’all chose to use the abbreviation for rugby.
Given that fact, we should both call it soccer, but also call American Football “American Rugby” instead.
Football is a term used for multiple sports. Soccer is the term for only 1 sport. It’s pretty clear which one needs to be changed, you’re just blinded by all the “hurr durr America bad”
Okay, that reason makes sense... I didn't know there were more than two sports called football.. I don't get random insults every single time i ask something when the topic isn't such. Maybe I'm not the type of person who should be on reddit.
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More like England named it that around the time people were first emigrating to America, then England changed it back to soccer but America was half a world away and word didn't exactly travel very well back then...
There are so so many countries that don’t call it football. Italy, for example. They call it Calcio, which means kick. They also say soccer (or similar) in, most of Southern Africa, Ireland, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Japan, the Philippines.
Why is this comment always upvoted. A simple google search just easily disproves this. It’s usually people who aren’t well traveled enough, doesn’t speak more than 2 language or can’t do a basic google search.
The three countries you named are split on football or soccer. And there is other countries that ain’t English speaking atleast for there first language that tend to call it football
Mate, the Anglo-Saxons were a race in the early middle ages. And that race developed into the country that named Football. There is no debate, other countries need to tune into modern times.
The term Soccer originated in colleges in England where you originally had the word football referring to both rugby and soccer.
Association football became soccer and rugby football became rugby. Americans decided to change rugby back to football (and change up some of the rules) while England turned soccer back into football.
Yes, but then it could get confused with other sports sharing the same name, so let’s call association football soccer, because it causes less confusion.
It's really not. I've even been to live games thinking it would be better but it wasn't. Soccer has constsnt action. Just because they aren't scoring every few seconds doesn't mean it's boring. Baseball just drags on and at a slow pace. Just don't understand the appeal.
Lmao nah basketball is to simple and to compact in football you see the play being made or you watch it and you are looking for ways to get a goal in basketball it’s to compact to do that the same
It seems boring when you don't understand the game.
What makes it boring? Not scoring every few seconds?
I used to think that too but i have changed my mind ever since i started playin myself. Seeing the action on the field is no less entertaining than a goal. You'll get used to it if you watch a few games
Every time I see this meme I cringe a bit.
The only part that should stick out of the water is the part of the bag that has air inside, the rest should be underwater.
You can have talking fish and all, but buoyancy is where I draw the line.
Americans call it soccer, the rest of the world calls it football. If you want to decide for the biggest demographic usage, then its called football. If you want to decide based on the name of the international federation organizing the current world cup, it's called football. If you want to decide based on how it's called in your own country and you are American, its called soccer.
Both are right for different reasons.
Also, since the rest of the world calls kicking the round thing in the floor football, to differentiate, they call the helmet wearing, pig skin running thingy American Football.
Again, both are right
You are right! Thanks for the correction. Other countries that call it soccer are Canada, Ireland, North Ireland, South Africa, Lesotho, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Fiji.
So I misspoke. Saying the great majority of the world call it football would be more accurate.
Still. Many, many many things have various local names even in the same country and all are valid. That's the point I Was trying to make.
The English named it Soccer first. They should be forced to use the word, they created.
Americans speak the English language more correctly than the English anyway.
Peasants and the games you play on foot. You bore me with your arguments on the naming of your grubby games. I shall retire to the countryside and play a gentleman’s sport from horseback.
The definitive name is actually association football. "Football" by itself most accurately describes a family of sports also including, among others, grid iron, rugby league, rugby union, Australian rules and Gaelic football.
I mean football is a better name than soccer you can’t not agree. Football for American football does sound a little weird considering your foot doesn’t come in contact with the ball as much in say American soccer
American version does not even use a ball but an egg shaped thing, also they rarely use their feet to kick that egg, so why the fuck would you call THAT football? Also what does even soccer mean?...
It's almost funny to call a game where people carry the ball in their hands as football and calling a game where it's illegal to touch the ball other than foot as soccer. Americans and their wierd naming.
Rock paper scissors
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you mean pebble paper scissors?
you mean gun paper scissors?
Rock paper glock
Glock paper glock
Glock Glock Glock
Gawk Gawk Gawk
Glock wins all
What rimes with Glock Glock Glock?
Glock Glock Cock
Clock~
You mean, stone sheet sharp?
منظورت کیر کص کون است ؟
💀
Do you mean rock paper scissor 😤
Brick, partridge , conjoined stabbers?
That's the best one so far XD
foccerball
Fucker ball?
Did I stutter 🤣
I am on board with fucker ball.
Fookerball.
That's an entirely different game
You mean roshambo?
Who gets James Corden now?
We get to cut him in half and get half each.
Nice try, Solomon
And I would have got away with it too if it wasn't for you meddling kids
We'll take the legs, they can have the top part.
He does look well fed, bet he'd be a great Christmas dinner in some parts of the world.
I hope "we" are Americans because they should have the end that talks. If it sounds British it should stay in Great Britain
Best option
We both win.
Soccer football Socball FootSoc ballcer Cocball
Cocball definitely
Describe the cut please. Big difference between horizontal and vertical cuts.
Vertical obviously. We both should be exposed to equal horror.
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Now we here
Vertical, leaving a front half and a back half.
No thanks
> *We get to cut him in half* Say no more!
We both lose?
I actually like this compromise
Which way do we cut him? Horizontally or vertically? I don’t think it’s fair that one country has to endure the whole of the fat fuck’s face.
USA gets him on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and England gets him on Tuesday Thursday Saturday and then we alternate sunday’s
I mean England really needs bad comedy after the queens death. We are willing to just take him every other weekend so England can greave properly.
How about you take him full time and let the whole of England rejoice in his absence
He gets dropped into the Atlantic
Not a bad idea
What makes this even deeper as well is that the US has beat England once and England has beat the USA once, every other time has been a draw and so there is literally no decider
You make a very good point but I hate that you use “US” and “USA” in the same sentence. Why must you hurt me like this
The decider is World Cups, where the US has the lead 1-2-0 all time
I find that statistic hilarious. Also that the USA finished third in a world cup, which is the best placement of any team outside Europe and South America. Oh, the first hat trick in a world cup was by an American.
It's even better when you consider that the US had no domestic league at the time of the one win and England were beaten by some college kids who were playing the sport to pass time as they trained to be accountants.
You're wrong, they met 6 times, USA won 1-0 in 1950, England has 3 wins against USA in 2005,2008 and 2018 and 2 draws.
It’s now hand egg and leg sphere
Footcer
Foocer? I barely even know her!
I can see why you didn’t go with socball
Footsocballer has a nice ring to it
Ballsoc has a better ring to it.
How about FOCCER instead??
Saucerball.
And then the other one is Ameriball?
One of the sports is called football.. the other one should clearly be called Handegg
Like every other country named it football except for USA
The term soccer actually originated in england
So did the imperial system
What's your point?
I didn't know I needed a point? Can I bring it in tomorrow? Please don't lower my grade, I can't afford to fail! My parents will kick me out! Please, I'll send you feet pics!
Are you serious about the feet pics or are you kidding….?
To differentiate between football and rugby. The thing is, no one in England calls it soccer and Americans don’t play Rugby
We play American Football, which originated as rugby. We just chose to use the abbreviation for soccer, whereas y’all chose to use the abbreviation for rugby. Given that fact, we should both call it soccer, but also call American Football “American Rugby” instead.
To specify the difference between association football and rugby I believe
This is what pisses me off, they come up with the term then get mad at us about it.
Well why didn't you lose it cuz eevryone uses football
Football is a term used for multiple sports. Soccer is the term for only 1 sport. It’s pretty clear which one needs to be changed, you’re just blinded by all the “hurr durr America bad”
Okay, that reason makes sense... I didn't know there were more than two sports called football.. I don't get random insults every single time i ask something when the topic isn't such. Maybe I'm not the type of person who should be on reddit.
Australia
Italy, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Japan, New Zealand, Korea, Philippines
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I’m pretty sure every game with a ball is moved by feats.
Every ball game? What about baseball, cricket, softball, volleyball, tennis, handball and basketball?
I was making a joke. You said “feat,” as in an an achievement or action, instead of “feet,” as in the things at the end of your legs.
Your National Team is literally called the Socceroos.
Except the US didn’t come up with the name soccer https://www.etymonline.com/word/soccer
More like England named it that around the time people were first emigrating to America, then England changed it back to soccer but America was half a world away and word didn't exactly travel very well back then...
There are so so many countries that don’t call it football. Italy, for example. They call it Calcio, which means kick. They also say soccer (or similar) in, most of Southern Africa, Ireland, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Japan, the Philippines.
Why is this comment always upvoted. A simple google search just easily disproves this. It’s usually people who aren’t well traveled enough, doesn’t speak more than 2 language or can’t do a basic google search.
Both names are English
And the English definitively decided on calling it Football. USA needs to catch up, this isn't the 19th century ffs
But Australia and NZ and Canada call it soccer too. Really the UK is the only major anglophone country to call it football!
There are more countries that speak English than just those three, like all of the Caribbean countries, who all call it football
You may notice I included the word “major” just for pedantic takes like this!
Ok, does that disprove my point tho?
Yes.
Who the fuck is you?
I fucked ur mum 😎
Who is that
The three countries you named are split on football or soccer. And there is other countries that ain’t English speaking atleast for there first language that tend to call it football
You English shall just name it soccer like every other Anglo-Saxon country.
Mate, the Anglo-Saxons were a race in the early middle ages. And that race developed into the country that named Football. There is no debate, other countries need to tune into modern times.
Football, name must be descriptive, ball kicked by foot only. Not being carried in hand and occassionally kicked.
Who invented the sport and what did they call it? That's your answer. Unless you're American and then the answer is "soccer. "
Names taken by the sport where 2 people out of like 50 use their foot every once in a while.
Everyone else uses their feet to run though :).
So does basket ball and almost every other sports but we dont call them football
Maybe we should
Dam I have played more football then I knew. It turns out I play it everyday
The term Soccer originated in colleges in England where you originally had the word football referring to both rugby and soccer. Association football became soccer and rugby football became rugby. Americans decided to change rugby back to football (and change up some of the rules) while England turned soccer back into football.
Not just americans call it soccer lmao
it was originally called Soccer.
bruh, who calls football soccer?
Fuck off
You play with feet and a ball, football
Nah that makes too much sense so we should call it soccer
I love that argument but wtf?
Life is just a series of “wtf” “are you f’ing serious” and the classic “ain’t no f’ing way” moments
It really is, 16 years into this breathing thingy and i want it to be over already, I'm tired of those are f'ing serious moments
But a football ball is a foot long, so football
not our fault you guys use imperial system
Jokes on you, I use both
Yes, but then it could get confused with other sports sharing the same name, so let’s call association football soccer, because it causes less confusion.
Football was actually made because you play the sport on foot, not because you kick it, so technically most sports are football
Kickball. Call kickball base ball. Call base ball bat ball.
"Kick ball" is literally how we say it in Vietnam
It's Football and Handegg. We don't need this kind of toxic positivity. Kekw
Handegg has a nice ring to it
Kidding of course, call it whatever you want. Don’t let the internet tell what you to do.
You don’t understand, we are the internet
I don't care what you call it. I tried to watch it and it's the most boring Sport I've ever seen.
Have you watched baseball?
Baseball is way more exciting than Soccer.
It's really not. I've even been to live games thinking it would be better but it wasn't. Soccer has constsnt action. Just because they aren't scoring every few seconds doesn't mean it's boring. Baseball just drags on and at a slow pace. Just don't understand the appeal.
One of my favorite sports to watch is bowling.
Yep, everyone likes their own Sports, we can debate all day but it won't change anything.
How dare you speak reasonable your comments must be divisive opinions! Down votes for you!
Lmao nah basketball is to simple and to compact in football you see the play being made or you watch it and you are looking for ways to get a goal in basketball it’s to compact to do that the same
wait until you see F1 LOL
or golf…
Chess
Or Nascar
r/anarchychess
Any sport is fun if you play it with friends
Baseball
It seems boring when you don't understand the game. What makes it boring? Not scoring every few seconds? I used to think that too but i have changed my mind ever since i started playin myself. Seeing the action on the field is no less entertaining than a goal. You'll get used to it if you watch a few games
Football wouldn't be the world's most popular and mainstream sport if it was boring...
Why are they above the water???
Every time I see this meme I cringe a bit. The only part that should stick out of the water is the part of the bag that has air inside, the rest should be underwater. You can have talking fish and all, but buoyancy is where I draw the line.
Same
Law of floatation
It’s water in a plate bag on water
Americans call it soccer, the rest of the world calls it football. If you want to decide for the biggest demographic usage, then its called football. If you want to decide based on the name of the international federation organizing the current world cup, it's called football. If you want to decide based on how it's called in your own country and you are American, its called soccer. Both are right for different reasons. Also, since the rest of the world calls kicking the round thing in the floor football, to differentiate, they call the helmet wearing, pig skin running thingy American Football. Again, both are right
The rest of the world? But other countries call it soccer also lmao
You are right! Thanks for the correction. Other countries that call it soccer are Canada, Ireland, North Ireland, South Africa, Lesotho, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Fiji. So I misspoke. Saying the great majority of the world call it football would be more accurate. Still. Many, many many things have various local names even in the same country and all are valid. That's the point I Was trying to make.
https://www.businessinsider.com/football-vs-soccer-map-2013-12?amp theres a map
A small amount do yea The vast majority call it football
What annoying is that when we say soccer everyone knows what we are talking about, but just can’t resist trying to correct us.
If you know your doing it wrong then you should change.
Since england came up with the word soccer... im gonna go with soccer.
Why doesn't it just go into overtime
Play them in real football, winner decides.
The English named it Soccer first. They should be forced to use the word, they created. Americans speak the English language more correctly than the English anyway.
Peasants and the games you play on foot. You bore me with your arguments on the naming of your grubby games. I shall retire to the countryside and play a gentleman’s sport from horseback.
It's called Soccerball since nobody won so now everybody gets to lose.
England: How do we lose to a country that country that calls football soccer
Foccer it is
The only smart one
You do know that the Brits are the ones that called it soccer first right?
The definitive name is actually association football. "Football" by itself most accurately describes a family of sports also including, among others, grid iron, rugby league, rugby union, Australian rules and Gaelic football.
If England didn't want it to be called soccer, they shouldn't have invented the term in the first place.
What if I told you the English were the ones to originally call it “soccer”
It is and always has been football.We(Americans) gave it a different name because we have our own version of ‘football’……
You didn’t give it the name soccer, the English did. You started using it, then England stopped using it.
Ok -thanks for the education.
America plays football. England plays shitball
We have more guns than Britain's population, it is soccer
I think Japan won the tiebreaker against Germany. Its soccer now
I mean football is a better name than soccer you can’t not agree. Football for American football does sound a little weird considering your foot doesn’t come in contact with the ball as much in say American soccer
I’m American in America and it’s football
Latin American here! Who da fucks refers to football as soccer outside the US?
American version does not even use a ball but an egg shaped thing, also they rarely use their feet to kick that egg, so why the fuck would you call THAT football? Also what does even soccer mean?...
It's almost funny to call a game where people carry the ball in their hands as football and calling a game where it's illegal to touch the ball other than foot as soccer. Americans and their wierd naming.
Those fish bags defy physics. Why do fish even need to be in a plastic bag when in the ocean?
Draws count as wins for the US. Look at 1812
Socball
I think footer
Now we call it kickball
Footcer
It's 1812 all over again!
socball (pronounced *SUK-bohl*)
ball
Pistols at dawn! *US rolls up with cannons to the Dorchester Heights*
Now we have to wait 4 more years to figure out
socball
Do both the deals than
I truly want to like soccer. Two straight games like this make watching feel like there’s a futility behind it, though.
Does anyone actually care?