44 thoughts on “FOOTBALL vs. SOCCER”

  1. Love this! American football comes from the sport of Rugby. Rugby has the full name of Rugby football. AF name is like having sparking wine that cannot be called Champagne because it does come from that part of the world

  2. Actually “soccer” is a UK creation for the Association Football variant of several sports with common origins: Association Football, Rugby Football, Gridiron Football (American and Canadian), Australian Football, etc. This short would be funnier to have the UK depicted for both “football” and “soccer”.

  3. Actually… 🤓 lol sports were invented by the wealthy. The first sports were played on horseback. Any subsequent sport that was played on foot was called “football”. The English, in fact, coined the term “Soccer”. Which came from a shortened version of Association, a league of what the world calls football. Shortened to Assoc, the shortened again to Soc. Then the term Soccer. So Brits again can be credited with the term “Soccer”. So, technically, what the world calls football is football, and what the Americans call football is also football. Rugby is also football. Even basketball and baseball are both “football”. Have fun thinking about that tonight. 😉

  4. Did you know the term 'Soccer' came from Football AsSOCiation ? And sort of nickname for Associates ? Associatives ? Soccers' ? A soccer is sm1 who subscribed to an association of football. Like… FIFA.

  5. Okay I have read enough misinformation!
    The Australian Natives have played Australian rules football for thousands of years. It's called Marngrook!
    A English man called Thomas will's gave it some extra rules in 1854!
    It's Australia's biggest game AFL plays Australian rules football (Marngrook)
    It has the highest attendance of any other soccer or football in the world per capita!
    Over a hundred thousand people go to games 121.000 at one game in fact!

  6. Scotland here. Nobody calls it soccer. It would be weird if they did. A foot to ball game…? Erm, im gonna go with football lol otherwise im kickin someone in the nuts!

  7. The best part is that we actually got the name for that sport FROM THE UK. They called it soccer prior to the globalization of the sport so we called it soccer too.

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