In the US, we call it soccer because that's what it was called in the UK to differentiate association football from rugby "rugger" football and gridiron "American" football. We adopted the term soccer too, since we already had a type of football that we just called football.
In the UK, the term soccer became associated with Americans and since they change their language and pronunciation according to whatever fad is in or out, they intentionally stopped saying soccer to sound less American.
Youโve done uk vs USA and aus vs USA but you should do uk vs Australia
In the UK we don't all talk like Kate Middelton.
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In America, Football is called Football because you throw the ball or carry it in your hands. Erm . . .
In the US, we call it soccer because that's what it was called in the UK to differentiate association football from rugby "rugger" football and gridiron "American" football. We adopted the term soccer too, since we already had a type of football that we just called football.
In the UK, the term soccer became associated with Americans and since they change their language and pronunciation according to whatever fad is in or out, they intentionally stopped saying soccer to sound less American.
I'm a horse and this offends me.
Popcorn is so damn recording that ๐
Itโs called football because itโs played on foot not on horseback
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um okay usa I'ma gonna stick to the UK for a little bit cause it makes more sense
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American football should be called handegg
No we call it soccer because were not nasty
so what does the goalkeepers say, its hand ball?
Im from britan but sometimes call it soccer
Well arenโt you kicking a soccer ball?
I was curious and looked it up, Britain called "soccer" Association Football versus Rugby Football.
We simply shortened association to soccer.๐