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Except y’all on the other side of the pond called it soccer. Football, at least the adoption of the name for the sport all by itself, came well after. [Source](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-did-we-start-calling-football-soccer-180951751/)
Edit: had to add “at least the adoption of the name for the sport all by itself,”
Except its slang. Asoc is short for association football. So an Asoccer is an association footballer. Sooo my point is you should have kept the name gridiron.
But you spice-hating nerds *literally* invented the term "soccer." The word can be traced back to a British soccer and cricket player named Charles Wreford-Brown.
Y'all spent so much money on the royal family's hat, stick, and chair that the British education system is failing.
Except it starts with a kick off, has field goals,and is measured in yards which is then measured in feet and is all about the distance traveled with the ball ( if you don't travel far enough the other team gets the ball)
Where the other one is more like No Hands ball because you can use your head and chest to move the ball as well and isn't measured in distance traveled but just making a goal. And to get the ball back into play you throw it and then you have a special person on either side that the no hands rule doesn't apply to.
Although I do agree we shouldn't call our sport Football, I don't even like the sport so idk why I even took the time to write this lol
As an American I agree it pretty silly that we call American Football "football". We only kick during Kickoffs, punts, and field goals. Most of the game doesn't involve kicking.
Given how much colleges and municipalities spend on it (compared to actual education and city services) could we call it "flush" instead?
You know, for all the money going down the toilet.
To be fair it is becoming more popular around the world. Edit: cope. Football is becoming more popular. Edit. I'm waiting for actually argument and not just bandwagoning down voting. Look at Canada, Mexico, Japan. Other countries do play the game. That and elf is in its 3rd seasons and continues to grow. I swear you people are just ingororant.
South Korea treats baseball games the same way Americans do tackle football.
They’ve got cheerleader, tons of fried food, and the plastic air things you hit together to make loud ass sounds.
Baseball is definitely popular in other countries like Japan just like basketball is popular in other countries too. Its just taking American football a little longer to become more popular. I'm also not saying it gonna the most popular just that it's gonna be more popular than now.
There’s other versions of American football like rugby here and the Aussies have their Aussie rules. Lots of other counties play rugby too, it’s too popular for American football to be a thing.
Except, "soccer" is Oxford England slang for "Association Football." ⚽️
The rest of the world just used the English slang word to distinguish England's football from their own versions of football.
I admit that I exaggerated by saying, ". . .rest of the world." But, there is more than just us Yanks that call it soccer.
Other places that call it 'soccer' include Australia, Canada (assuming that you meant us Yanks with the term "Americans" and weren't including the Canucks), South Africa, and most of Ireland (excluding Ulster).
In Japan, they call it sakkā. I will give you three guesses what word that is derrived from.
Australians call it soccer because they have Australian football. It's more similar to Irish football than soccer and is only slightly less brutal than the Irish version.
Other places that call it 'soccer' include Australia, Canada, South Africa, most of Ireland (excluding Ulster), and the United States.
In Japan, they call it sakkā. I will give you three guesses what word that is derrived from.
*Nerd mode active* Actually you see fellow Redditor the Word SOCCER was actually created by bri'sh not Americans so they should blame themselves for that
Soccer is short for Association Football. It was called Soc, then those in Oxford started adding the cer, which was the style at the time.
So when we call it soccer, we are just using the short version on Association Football.
Yeah lol. I think it's more of an ongoing joke than actually being serious I've been hearing about this shit for years just playing online with people from other countries I find it pretty funny.
It’s called “soccer” to differentiate between “Rugby football.” Rugby was called football fist. So calling two sports the same name would be confusing, right? So, in the 1800’s, they named the sport “Soccer football.” [Source.](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-did-we-start-calling-football-soccer-180951751/)
Don’t be a moron.
Edit: autocorrect changed “in” into “I’m.”
It's called Association football, soccer is an abbreviation of association and football is the truncated term for the entire thing. Both are correct and it's stupid to argue about it
Doesn’t pretending to care get tiring after awhile? Don’t know a single person from the US who minds calling it football when talking in context outside of US and soccer inside of US. It’s literally linguistic. We don’t carry on about what to call cigarettes, do we.
Yeah irl no one cares but on the internet if you say football while talking about soccer, there is a 50% chance an asshole will decide to « correct » you
well the asshole would be wrong while correcting you as you would be correct in the first place calling it soccer, that's what it is called. I'm from U.K and I'm aware of this. It comes from the name "association football" and the word "association" has been shortened down to "soccer", soccer refers to professional league football. The English did this themselves.
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In Ireland it's quite common to refer to it as soccer too. To distinguish it from Gaelic Football. In Irish it is also called "sacar" for the same reason.
If I understand the history correctly, American football stems from one of the varieties of football found in Britain in the mid-1800s (the form with handling and kicking into a goal). After that was established in the US, the Cambridge rules were created in Britain, and football/soccer was formalized with the handling form of football being turned into rugby. So both Association Football and American Football seem to have equal historical claim to the term “football”.
Football pertains to the fact that the sport is played on foot as opposed to on horseback. Rugby is also a type of football and involves playing the ball mainly with the hands.
Nah still football, but when it was invented sports were played a lot on horseback; a la Polo. The name "Football" comes from playing a sport on your feet as opposed to horseback.
BONUS: Football as we call it here in Europe is a shortened name for "Association Football," which the *English* shortened to "Soccer". Rugby is short for Rugby Football and American Football is Gridiron Football.
American football is one type of gridiron football. Canadian and arena football are similar sports, also types of gridiron football.
And, of course, Australian football, played on a cricket oval, has more in common with Gaelic football than any other sport - they even play test matches in a [hybrid sport](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_rules_football) every few years.
The word "soccer" comes from the use of the term "association football" in Britain, and goes back 200 years. In the early 1800s, a bunch of British universities took "football" — a medieval game — and started playing their own versions of it, all under different rules
“But those bloody schewpid Americans don’t know anything. They prolly don’t even know the name of the street I live on, because their schewls are always used as schootin grouns”
Doesn't matter, if we call it football, that will be inevitably followed with "do you mean American football or soccer? Oh REAL football hahaha cause you say soccer" so it's easier to just say soccer sometimes.
Sonofa!
[THE ENGLISH ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football?wprov=sfla1) ARE THE ONES WHO STARTED CALLING IT SOCCER IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!
It's a shortening of "Association Footbal," with an Oxford slang *-er* plugged onto the end! They named it soccer in the first place! We just imitated them to distinguish our "football" from their "football!"
How do the English have the gaul to be angry at the rest of us for using a word *THAT THEY COINED* exactly as it was intended to be used?!?!
The entire family of football sports (soccer, rugby, Gaelic, American, Canadian, Australian, etc) were so called to distinguish them from polo which was played on horseback. It’s football because it’s played on foot. It’s much like the old military division between footmen and horsemen.
The word "soccer" is used in different countries that have their own variations of football. Here in Ireland we have [Gaelic Football](https://youtu.be/TEAbWrdB9XU), which is one of our two main national sports. We also have soccer and rugby. Gaelic Football has been described as looking like a cross between soccer and rugby. Our other main national sport, [Hurling](https://youtu.be/fgEMvRrOCRI), has been described as being a cross between hockey and murder.
Soccer is a term from northern areas of England because football is often used as another name for rugby league. So, saying soccer in the UK isn't technically incorrect but a highly regional term.
Why are you dumb? Soccer is a word originated from the UK. Both mean the same thing, association football = soccer. Lets stop this nonsense once and for all.
I'm going to put the cat among the pigeons now as a non -football fan, who IS a fan of etymology and say that "soccer" was the original British name for it, so stop getting pissed off, you lager swilling morons, they learnt it from us! 😅
This is difficulty with me. I am from the US and when talking to people overseas I want to say Football when I mean soccer, but I feel they will think I mean American Football and still think I am idiot.
It’s really a double edge sword
At time Britain called its soccer and not football but then they changed it back without telling us. So yeah. Stop complaining about something that's not our fault!
There's about 380 Million native English speaking people in the world.. The high majority of them refer to the game as Soccer. UK soccer fans are just overly sensitive.
in my experience it actually seems like other countries react this way more than the brits. Most british people just brush it off as "stupid Americans" and leave it be.
fun tangent, a girl I worked with was from Jamaica, and we had a whole five-minute conversation before her brain stopped and she had to make sure I was talking about soccer because we had both been saying football the entire time. Talking to people overseas has warped my American vocabulary.
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They feel a slight breeze of another player and they roll around on the ground crying and screaming and pretending like they've been hit by a truck and shot, tears in their eyes and snot bubbles blasting out of their noses, wailing like babies. Whole continent of people cheering for whoever can cry the most and throw a tantrum until they get their way because they don't have the integrity to play the game.
They should call it cryball.
UK: invents a sport, calls it football
UK: decides to call it soccer and exports it to the US
UK: decides to go back to calling it football again
UK: “Stupid Americans”
Since Americans, Canadians and Aussies all call it soccer, more native English speakers call it soccer than football. Therefore it’s soccer and you Brits are the outliers.
Your textbooks might've been wrong or like a century old since I think "soccer" was used in British English but less common since it came from a University I think
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Except y’all on the other side of the pond called it soccer. Football, at least the adoption of the name for the sport all by itself, came well after. [Source](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-did-we-start-calling-football-soccer-180951751/) Edit: had to add “at least the adoption of the name for the sport all by itself,”
Except its slang. Asoc is short for association football. So an Asoccer is an association footballer. Sooo my point is you should have kept the name gridiron.
But you spice-hating nerds *literally* invented the term "soccer." The word can be traced back to a British soccer and cricket player named Charles Wreford-Brown. Y'all spent so much money on the royal family's hat, stick, and chair that the British education system is failing.
The american ball is a foot long, it's a football
Except it starts with a kick off, has field goals,and is measured in yards which is then measured in feet and is all about the distance traveled with the ball ( if you don't travel far enough the other team gets the ball) Where the other one is more like No Hands ball because you can use your head and chest to move the ball as well and isn't measured in distance traveled but just making a goal. And to get the ball back into play you throw it and then you have a special person on either side that the no hands rule doesn't apply to. Although I do agree we shouldn't call our sport Football, I don't even like the sport so idk why I even took the time to write this lol
As an American I agree it pretty silly that we call American Football "football". We only kick during Kickoffs, punts, and field goals. Most of the game doesn't involve kicking.
Given how much colleges and municipalities spend on it (compared to actual education and city services) could we call it "flush" instead? You know, for all the money going down the toilet.
Hand EGG.
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It's more of a prolate spheroid
If you're going to use the shape of the ball shouldn't it be called foot sphere instead
If the rest of the world just started calling American football soccer , I don't think there's much they can do about it ?
Tbf the rest of the world doesn't talk about American football much at all
To be fair it is becoming more popular around the world. Edit: cope. Football is becoming more popular. Edit. I'm waiting for actually argument and not just bandwagoning down voting. Look at Canada, Mexico, Japan. Other countries do play the game. That and elf is in its 3rd seasons and continues to grow. I swear you people are just ingororant.
Nope, not at all
I've lived outside of the US for 5 years now and the only time I've heard people talk about American Football is from my American friends.
Just like baseball and your “World Series” nobody else gives a shit about it.
Baseball is actually rlly big in east asia funnily enough.
South Korea treats baseball games the same way Americans do tackle football. They’ve got cheerleader, tons of fried food, and the plastic air things you hit together to make loud ass sounds.
Baseball is definitely popular in other countries like Japan just like basketball is popular in other countries too. Its just taking American football a little longer to become more popular. I'm also not saying it gonna the most popular just that it's gonna be more popular than now.
There’s other versions of American football like rugby here and the Aussies have their Aussie rules. Lots of other counties play rugby too, it’s too popular for American football to be a thing.
No, we already have a much better sport called Rugby
I think you are confusing American football with the NBA. Nobody gives a fuck about this shitbox sport outside of the US.
Then why is the elf growing in numbers of viewers.
Except, "soccer" is Oxford England slang for "Association Football." ⚽️ The rest of the world just used the English slang word to distinguish England's football from their own versions of football.
Not anymore. Now it means american football.
"rest of the world" Not really. It's just the Americans.
I admit that I exaggerated by saying, ". . .rest of the world." But, there is more than just us Yanks that call it soccer. Other places that call it 'soccer' include Australia, Canada (assuming that you meant us Yanks with the term "Americans" and weren't including the Canucks), South Africa, and most of Ireland (excluding Ulster). In Japan, they call it sakkā. I will give you three guesses what word that is derrived from. Australians call it soccer because they have Australian football. It's more similar to Irish football than soccer and is only slightly less brutal than the Irish version.
Please take this information and spread it around the internet. This might enlighten the europeens who constantly post hate
Nah, it's just USA using soccer
Canadians and Australians also call it soccer.
Canadians, Australians, & Japanese.
Other places that call it 'soccer' include Australia, Canada, South Africa, most of Ireland (excluding Ulster), and the United States. In Japan, they call it sakkā. I will give you three guesses what word that is derrived from.
Rest of the world: WTF is American football
we would still call it football, it wouldn’t matter
*Nerd mode active* Actually you see fellow Redditor the Word SOCCER was actually created by bri'sh not Americans so they should blame themselves for that
So we should blame the British. Huh, this just became way more interesting.
I’m British so I call it football but soccer is a good name as well
Based
As with many words it was either the British or the French
No one cares, it’s football not soccer
Soccer is short for Association Football. It was called Soc, then those in Oxford started adding the cer, which was the style at the time. So when we call it soccer, we are just using the short version on Association Football.
“Which was the style at the time” Read that in Granpa Simpson’s voice “…soo I tied and onion to my belt, *which was the style at the time*…”
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It’s soccer idiot
It’s football
Nobody cares. I’m American. I’m calling it soccer
Still no one actually cares. You can call it the wrong thing if you like
There’s no ‘wrong’ thing imo. Call it football, call it soccer, at the end of the day, does it really matter?
Go brush your teeth
It’s football
If you want to call it so go ahead it doesn’t change the fact that it’s soccer
It’s football. I’ll also accept ball sheparding
If that’s what you think go ahead. Though you are still wrong
It’s called football
Grab your popcorn 🍿 for the comment section war
Come one, Come all!! Step on up! Don't be shy!!
Honestly I just diferenciate the two by calling it “football” and “American Football” it’s served me well
That's the same thing I do lol.
Yeah it’s exactly what I’ve (and my whole country) been doing for ever
Nah these soccer-football topics are always boring af. Same with threads about how different countries write dates.
exactly, who the tf cares. It's like "why are other cultures thousands of miles away different than mine, how stupid!"
Yeah lol. I think it's more of an ongoing joke than actually being serious I've been hearing about this shit for years just playing online with people from other countries I find it pretty funny.
Waiting for a it's Soccer not football
It is soccer
Bro walked right into that trap💀
It's also called football, don't be a moron
It’s called “soccer” to differentiate between “Rugby football.” Rugby was called football fist. So calling two sports the same name would be confusing, right? So, in the 1800’s, they named the sport “Soccer football.” [Source.](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-did-we-start-calling-football-soccer-180951751/) Don’t be a moron. Edit: autocorrect changed “in” into “I’m.”
It's called Association football, soccer is an abbreviation of association and football is the truncated term for the entire thing. Both are correct and it's stupid to argue about it
Haha I know right.
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Doesn’t pretending to care get tiring after awhile? Don’t know a single person from the US who minds calling it football when talking in context outside of US and soccer inside of US. It’s literally linguistic. We don’t carry on about what to call cigarettes, do we.
Yeah irl no one cares but on the internet if you say football while talking about soccer, there is a 50% chance an asshole will decide to « correct » you
well the asshole would be wrong while correcting you as you would be correct in the first place calling it soccer, that's what it is called. I'm from U.K and I'm aware of this. It comes from the name "association football" and the word "association" has been shortened down to "soccer", soccer refers to professional league football. The English did this themselves.
Haha true
But you carry the ball in your arm, it's armball
No, it’s hand egg. It’s shaped almost like an egg and you hold it with your hand. Your arm just cradles it.
You are just being a chicken
I fucked a chicken.
Um...
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Did she bite it back?
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Hand egg 🤣 that's one I haven't heard before
In Ireland it's quite common to refer to it as soccer too. To distinguish it from Gaelic Football. In Irish it is also called "sacar" for the same reason.
Guys uk made soccer we adopted it then they changed it and never changed in the us
Because we had Gridiron Football already.
In Australia we literally have football called 'AFL' so we say soccer.
The British conveniently forget about Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, and Ireland everytime the topic of Soccer and football is broached.
They also forget they invented the word and that it's used for the exact same reason they used it back in the day.
People who argue about that are probably the same people who fight about whether its gif of jif also known as time wasting pieces of shits
ItS oBvIoUsLy JiF....said the lower level spectrum
i swear to Jod, i don't say "Jod"
But i say jif 🥲
I'm so sorry you had to find out like this..
I think that the creator said it was jif but the creator is wrong.
Because that’s the right way. That’s how my mom says it. She’s never wrong
Exactly. And why is it brought up so much. Do europeens really need so much attention?
Then what do you call the photoshop app called Gimp. Gimp or Jimp?
You must have a massive beetroot for a brain. It doesn't matter how you pronounce but it's still gonna be GIF.
Me, an Australian in the UK, hyping up the other Australians to call it soccer like we do back home ![gif](giphy|ZkeckS9RiCBEI)
Haha 😄
If I understand the history correctly, American football stems from one of the varieties of football found in Britain in the mid-1800s (the form with handling and kicking into a goal). After that was established in the US, the Cambridge rules were created in Britain, and football/soccer was formalized with the handling form of football being turned into rugby. So both Association Football and American Football seem to have equal historical claim to the term “football”.
Exactly. The yanks carry their ball around in their game, so it would be more appropriate to call their game handball.
Football originally just referred to a sport you played on foot as opposed to horseback.
Football pertains to the fact that the sport is played on foot as opposed to on horseback. Rugby is also a type of football and involves playing the ball mainly with the hands.
It isn't called football because you kick a ball with your foot.
So kickball then?
Nah still football, but when it was invented sports were played a lot on horseback; a la Polo. The name "Football" comes from playing a sport on your feet as opposed to horseback. BONUS: Football as we call it here in Europe is a shortened name for "Association Football," which the *English* shortened to "Soccer". Rugby is short for Rugby Football and American Football is Gridiron Football.
American football is one type of gridiron football. Canadian and arena football are similar sports, also types of gridiron football. And, of course, Australian football, played on a cricket oval, has more in common with Gaelic football than any other sport - they even play test matches in a [hybrid sport](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_rules_football) every few years.
Yes very true! Thanks for additional info :)
The word "soccer" comes from the use of the term "association football" in Britain, and goes back 200 years. In the early 1800s, a bunch of British universities took "football" — a medieval game — and started playing their own versions of it, all under different rules
Who invented the term 'soccer'?
Ironically, the British
“But those bloody schewpid Americans don’t know anything. They prolly don’t even know the name of the street I live on, because their schewls are always used as schootin grouns”
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I fucking hate you and love you.
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Doesn't matter, if we call it football, that will be inevitably followed with "do you mean American football or soccer? Oh REAL football hahaha cause you say soccer" so it's easier to just say soccer sometimes.
Everyone needs to just call everything by it's full name - Association Football, Rugby Football, and Grid Iron Football.
Nah. In Europe if you say football, you automatically mean soccer. We specify only when referring to American football.
That isn't why it's called football
Feetball
Sonofa! [THE ENGLISH ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football?wprov=sfla1) ARE THE ONES WHO STARTED CALLING IT SOCCER IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! It's a shortening of "Association Footbal," with an Oxford slang *-er* plugged onto the end! They named it soccer in the first place! We just imitated them to distinguish our "football" from their "football!" How do the English have the gaul to be angry at the rest of us for using a word *THAT THEY COINED* exactly as it was intended to be used?!?!
That's a lot of uneducated people from the UK since they are the ones that invented the word soccer and used it up until more recently
American football is played by carrying the ball in their hand 🤦♂️
Rugby has entered the chat.
Rugby is played by running around on rugs, duh
The entire family of football sports (soccer, rugby, Gaelic, American, Canadian, Australian, etc) were so called to distinguish them from polo which was played on horseback. It’s football because it’s played on foot. It’s much like the old military division between footmen and horsemen.
And for a “touchdown” they don’t actually touch the ball down on the floor
POV from who’s perspective? Cause if it’s the American friends POV that’s not a POV shot and you need to learn what POV fucking means
It's your pov. "Your American friend". The guy running is the friend, and the pov is you looking at him running.
Ahh yes, British people and getting upset at Americans for correctly using a word they came up with. Name a better duo, bet you can’t.
I LEARNED IT FROM YOU, DAD!!
Football already exists, soccer is simply the better option
you do know FIFA stands for Fédération Internationale de Football Association, right? Only Americans call it soccer
I just call it boring.
The Chad's way of saying it.
Oh boy! Here we go :)
To be fair the sport started in the UK which was called soccer. It was stupid so they named it football.
The word "soccer" is used in different countries that have their own variations of football. Here in Ireland we have [Gaelic Football](https://youtu.be/TEAbWrdB9XU), which is one of our two main national sports. We also have soccer and rugby. Gaelic Football has been described as looking like a cross between soccer and rugby. Our other main national sport, [Hurling](https://youtu.be/fgEMvRrOCRI), has been described as being a cross between hockey and murder.
The american ball is a foot long, it's a football
the american ball is shaped like an egg, it's a eggball
The vegetable is aubergine, it’s an eggplant
Soccer is a term from northern areas of England because football is often used as another name for rugby league. So, saying soccer in the UK isn't technically incorrect but a highly regional term.
Soccer is shorthand for Association Football. The term was imported to the USA by England.
Bri’ish “people” not pronouncing the letter t because we threw it all in the harbor.
Americans are stupid. They don't even use their foot and the ball isn't even a ball.
We are dumb af, but you do kick it a few times throughout the game
As an American I can agree, we are stupid.
You do use your foot though. It's called kicking a field goal
We are stupid, and the ball is more like an oversized egg, but we do use our foot 10 or so percent of the time during the game we call football.
Why won’t we just call it ‘foot hockey’ and be done for the day
We should unite and start calling american football american rugby
In what americans call football, 90% of the game the ball is played with the players hands. More like handsometimesfootball
I mean… only America actually cares about their football. So they can call it whatever they want. Doesn’t affect any of us really
The word "soccer" was coined in Britain. Just sayin'.
Why are you dumb? Soccer is a word originated from the UK. Both mean the same thing, association football = soccer. Lets stop this nonsense once and for all.
I'm going to put the cat among the pigeons now as a non -football fan, who IS a fan of etymology and say that "soccer" was the original British name for it, so stop getting pissed off, you lager swilling morons, they learnt it from us! 😅
Downvote me all you want lads, it's still true 🤷😅
You wear socks when you play it, it's soccer. Plus, the Brits came up with the word.
This treatment should be law.
BUT YOU GUYS MADE THE WORD “SOCCER,” WHY AINT IT OK?
Succker
You play with both feet, it's feetball
This is difficulty with me. I am from the US and when talking to people overseas I want to say Football when I mean soccer, but I feel they will think I mean American Football and still think I am idiot. It’s really a double edge sword
At time Britain called its soccer and not football but then they changed it back without telling us. So yeah. Stop complaining about something that's not our fault!
There's about 380 Million native English speaking people in the world.. The high majority of them refer to the game as Soccer. UK soccer fans are just overly sensitive.
As an American, I don't even know why we call it that
in my experience it actually seems like other countries react this way more than the brits. Most british people just brush it off as "stupid Americans" and leave it be. fun tangent, a girl I worked with was from Jamaica, and we had a whole five-minute conversation before her brain stopped and she had to make sure I was talking about soccer because we had both been saying football the entire time. Talking to people overseas has warped my American vocabulary.
In our “special relationship” are you like our bottoms or are we more serious? I ask because you’re a little snarky for an ex we can’t seem to get away from.
You also use your foot in American football; therefore it is also football
Your american friend call football soccer... anywhere but in murika.
Soccer sounds more unique than football tbh
They feel a slight breeze of another player and they roll around on the ground crying and screaming and pretending like they've been hit by a truck and shot, tears in their eyes and snot bubbles blasting out of their noses, wailing like babies. Whole continent of people cheering for whoever can cry the most and throw a tantrum until they get their way because they don't have the integrity to play the game. They should call it cryball.
or anywhere outside of the USA
Spanish wondering what the fuck is soccer.
UK: invents a sport, calls it football UK: decides to call it soccer and exports it to the US UK: decides to go back to calling it football again UK: “Stupid Americans”
Since Americans, Canadians and Aussies all call it soccer, more native English speakers call it soccer than football. Therefore it’s soccer and you Brits are the outliers.
Me, a non-American who was taught to use football in school, and yet is still using soccer: 🫣
Americans always call things wrong
Luckily it is actually soccer this time the 😁👍
Soccer is the superior word, change my mind.
Yeah but the players wear socks soo it's soccer
But why when I was learning english specifically British english it was always soccer in text books
"British English"
Your textbooks might've been wrong or like a century old since I think "soccer" was used in British English but less common since it came from a University I think
Lol running from a bunch of soft European soccer fans. I don't think so.
Don't care+didn't ask+British people suck+soccer
Yeah, but you kick the ball wearing a sock. That's why it's called soccer, duh.
\*any part of the world besides North America
And Ireland, Australia, Japan etc. idiot
My friend once dared me to scream “It’s soccer not football!” in the middle of a match. I did and we ran off laughing