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It’s football not soccer btw
by baby 4y ago
It’s football not soccer btw
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoIndeed. There's world football, the most popular sport in the world, and then there's American football which is this rugby clone with body armour that's only a thing in the US (NFL). I never understood why Americans call it 'foot'-'ball' when the sport is mostly played with the hands rather than exclusively with the feet as in world football. Was it a patriotism thing, to ignore the world's most popular sport, and make their own one where America will always be no. 1?
- boomboomsubban 4y agoDon't forget about Canadian football. edit >Was it a patriotism thing, to ignore the world's most popular sport, and make their own one where America will always be no. 1? In America they were playing something like rugby football and eventually dropped the rugby part at roughly the same time England was playing association football and dropped the association part. It was hardly the most popular worldwide sport at the time.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoThere's Gaelic football as well.
- Scarblac 4y agoAnd Australian football, and Rugby football, and Association football that got shortened to "soccer". In England, originally. There are probably more.
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- animal531 4y agoPeople keep complaining about this when it's really not a thing, and it has nothing to do with the USA. For example in European-ish countries it's called Calcio (to kick) in Italy, Nogomet (leg) in Boznia/Croatia, mappa (ball) in Cyprus, labdarugas officially (ball-kicking) in Hungary. There's another 8 or so countries where it's called another form of kick/ball/leg/something etc. Finally it's called soccer in about 15 countries, of which the USA is only 1, where almost none of them have another variant of football.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoWhere do you see people complaining? It was just pointing out a wired naming scheme and asking a question.
- ignoramous 4y agoFor the sake of the argument, let's narrow the scope down to English-speaking countries...
- GauntletWizard 4y agoWhy not count by English-speaking people? Of whom almost half are North American (US+Canada) and would call it "Soccer", and then so do the Australians, Irish, and several others. https://www.businessinsider.com/football-vs-soccer-map-2013-12 https://www.businessinsider.com/football-vs-soccer-map-2013-...
- ignoramous 4y agoFor the sake of the argument, let's also include the Global South for a second: The Indians, the Pakistanis, the Bangladeshis, the Kenyans, and the Nigerians who call it football.
- gpderetta 4y agoThe name "calcio" is ubiquitous in Italy, but the "Football" term is very common, where it is part of the official name of many clubs, e.g. Juventus Football Club. And in many languages a word directly derived from "Football" is common to refer to the game.
- kleiba 4y agoIn case you're interested why it's called soccer in some parts of the world: https://www.history.com/news/why-do-some-people-call-it-soccer https://www.history.com/news/why-do-some-people-call-it-socc... Fun fact: the term originated in England.
- soccerfan1435 4y agoIt's kind of ironic that your comment, which is complaining about US-centrism, is itself fatally US-centric. If you considered the broader world and historical context you'd see that "football" is an overloaded term that refers to very different things in different times and places. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football "Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word football normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used." Why call it soccer? Maybe it's because the English, who invented it, called it that in 1895. "The term soccer comes from Oxford "-er" slang, which was prevalent at the University of Oxford in England from about 1875, and is thought to have been borrowed from the slang of Rugby School. The slang also gave rise to rugger for rugby football, fiver and tenner for a five-pound and ten-pound note, and the now-archaic footer for association football.[12] The word soccer (which arrived at its final form in 1895) was first recorded in 1889 in the earlier form of socca.[13]" So, you see, when the Aussies call their thing "football" it's an interesting cultural quirk but when Americans do the same it's because they are big dumb. And how ignorant and culturally domineering of them to call a sport by the name that the inventors of that sport coined for it. Man, these Americans!
- baby 4y agoI still don’t understand why people watch american football over rugby. American football tried to alienate the audience by stopping the game and showing ads all the time. Rugby is a continuous game that’s much more fun to watch and has somewhat similar rules
- yeeeeeehhhaw 4y agoRugby is a sport of fluidity similar to soccer. Gridiron football is a sport of individual plays and tactics.
- smcl 4y agoAs someone who says "football" - by now, nobody's going to be persuaded to change how they currently refer to the sport. It's called "football", but it's also called "soccer" - that's fine.
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- yeeeeeehhhaw 4y agoWe call it soccer.