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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, Z

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.