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"Football" is the proper name for hundreds of millions of people, and literally anyone outside North America.

• evgen 7y ago
  And yet so many of them know so little about the history of the name and think that they are “correcting” Americans who call it soccer.
• umanwizard 7y ago
  The second part is not quite true. It's called soccer in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa (and sometimes in Ireland), Calcio in Italy, Sakkā in Japan, Zu Qiu in China... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football
  • billfruit 7y ago
    In Aus and Nz, the recent trend has been to use Football than Soccer, the national associations has been renamed accordingly.
    • enneff 7y ago
      Maybe among soccer fans, but the term “football” is rarely used in au and nz to mean soccer.
• TrumpSucks 7y ago
  pissed off euro trash spotted!