when the whole world call it football?
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Isn't soccer an abbreviation or an analogy of something? Pretty sure it is......Comment -
Because we already have a football that is quite popular, would get confusing.Comment -
Dont australians call it soccer too?Comment -
Why is it called Football in the first place if you use most of the time your hands? Is it because it starts by kicking the ball ?Comment -
Not sure Sharkey, I think the earliest forms had a lot more drop-kicking involved. The present game sure doesn't seem like football anymore.Comment -
Goes back to the history of how the sport came along. In the US, most schools were playing a type of soccer or football. Different schools had different rules. When they got together to create a single set of rules, the group that was playing with rugby style football rules won out and there rules were adapted. They just stuck with the name football because people were use to calling it that.Comment -
Because it sounds better than kicky ball.Comment -
"Paradoxally, the origin of the word soccer comes from…you guessed, England. But in order to fully understand what I'm talking about, keep reading ahead as I'll share some of the beautiful history of soccer.
The date of October 26th 1863 is to soccer what March 4th 1787 is to the United States. It's the day that several soccer clubs all around England gathered up in London and formed The Football Association, the first soccer organization up to that date.
The reason I compared this date to the day the United States Constitution was adopted because the Football Association organized the game into a sportive "constitution" called the Laws of Football. The term "soccer" appeared shortly after, being an abbreviation from "Football Association" (from assoc.) and although not as heavily used as soccer, it was a short, light form to describe the phenomenon.
Reportedly, the man who stands at the origin of the word soccer is Charles Wreford Brown, an Oxford student who always preferred shortened versions of words, such as brekkers for breakfast, or rugger for rugby.
Soccer gained popularity in the United States later than in the rest of Europe and since the Americans already had a use for the world "football" in understanding the sport of American Football, a middle option was tried on in between 1945 and 1975, when the organization that controlled soccer in the USA was called the "United States Soccer Football Association".
Besides being long, the name was still confusing so after 1974 it simply adopted the name of "United States Soccer Federation" and the word "soccer" would define the sport in the US area ever since.
It's often mistakenly thought that the United States are the only country that uses the term soccer for what is traditionally known as football in Europe, Asia and other parts of the World. However, the new name was adopted by other countries, specifically those that associated football to a different sport prior to soccer being popular. Such countries include Australia, Canada, New Zealand and some parts of Ireland."
From this site: http://www.soccer-fans-info.com/orig...rd-soccer.html
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because it's a sport best played by pre pubescent girls
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British people call it soccer too. I always wonder why soccer is not popular in US?Comment -
Love soccer. '94 World Cup pulled me in, and I've been a fanatic since.Comment -
I love soccer too but US Sports are more enjoying imo. Soccer can be boring sometimes..Comment -
US sports are the best gambling-wise, big scores, a lot of action and dopamine
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I call it football....and for me, there is american football....that's what I was thought as a child)
Soccer record (2010) : 244-160-24
2010-2011 season (soccer) : 144-95-11
NBA Record (2010-2011 season) : 17-12-1
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Football it is and should be but unfortunately big part of the world gets confused while calling it Football.Comment -
Who cares what it's called?
Soccer is awesome and when the EPL gets a TV contract to be shown regularly on US TV it will explode.Comment -
by far the funniest post i saw in days... weeks!
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it's more often than not situation
i believe that we all know the answer to that question. and i'm not implicating to be particularly wise to to state this one more time: the game itself is, we have to admit it, boring to watch in most of the cases; come one, we have 20 players who run around the meadow kicking a ball for 90+ minutes and the winner wins with 1-0 score. Plus, there is a draw possibility (0-0 is specially frustrating, even more if you paid for ticket). Plus Americans hate sport rules that are not set in details - leaving much space for referee judgement which cannot be overruled. in one occasion, when i was drinking with my comrades, we discussed what would be the rules of soccer if Americans could change them. conclusion was: 1) halftime would be at least 10 minutes shorter; 2) time counting would be stopped every time when the player is laying on the grass; 3) there would be challenging of zebra's decisions; 4) overtime(s) until one team wins. those were main conclusions, the rest of them i cannot recall due my drunk condition at that moment. i have to admit that with this set of rules soccer would gain in dynamics and would be more interesting to watch not needing to say much more fair play and fair game with more goals - futsal and soccer would be much closer then. and as we were drunk we analysed more further: "And there is also a sociological issue why soccer is not popular in US." but on that - on some other occasion (maybe later).Comment -
All goes back to pigs. Or rather pig bladders.
The folks that were able to blow up the bladder into a more or less round shape played football. The rest, having to use their hands, because the 'ball' bounced all over the place, played rugby.
The strange shape of the rugby and American football ball is, in other words, a tribute to human incompetence.Comment -
That's amazing that English people have used the word soccer for the first time. This word sounds more 'American' than any other for me.Comment -
Soccer - its from socks ... ceremony
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The most boring sport is baseball ...by farComment
