what is the difference between soccer and football?
130227
Soccer is what the Americans call Football in order to differentiate it from "American Football" which is a completely different game.\n\nFootball is a British invented sport with a huge worldwide following now where two teams of eleven players try to kicj a round ball into the other teams net.\n\nAmerican Football has more in common with Rugby Football where two teams of players run with, carry and throw an egg shaped ball to each other and attempt to touch it down behind the goal or kick it over the goal.\n\nRugby football was invented at Rugby School in England when someone picked up the ball during a normal game of football and ran with it.\n\nThe origins of football are thought to have been in the middle ages when baying crowds would compete to kick the severed head of someone who had been executed around the streets.\n\nNot much has changed in europe!!
628221
Football (or soccer as you call it), has never been, and never will be, a game where the scores run into double figures. That's half the excitement/heartbreak of it. Knowing that a game can turn in a split second, with one incident.\n\nIt's because of this that it's unique in it's universal appeal for hundreds of millions of people, from all races and cultures.\n\nAnd if you look closely enough, you could say all sports are linked. Most use some kind of ball and are played in a specific, marked out area.
11678
no...there is really no point. the purpose of the game is to go around, knocking people over and trying to score as many touchdowns as possible, either by running with the ball or passing to a team mate.\n\nthat's why i prefer to stay with soccer!
332443
Could it be because Americans are clueless? American football is a game where the ball is predominantly thrown or carried the ball gets kicked far less then it is thrown or carried.In the rest of the world Football is called football because a ball is predominantly kicked.
369930
it's called association football, and soccer is just derived somehow from the word association and so we call it soccer.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_%28soccer%29_names
126772
Because soccer or I shall say football is one of the most played games in the entire world, except USA. \n\nThe world is hooked on it, just like americans watch superbowl and would kill someone if anyone would try to stop them. Hence, football puts the fighting on the field with 22 players.\n\nIts an awesome sport if you play professionaly. I spent 12 years playing it, its awesome.\n\nFootball is diplomacy with balls!
429537
I am from England and i love to watch nfl. I play all the Madden Games and my favourite team is the Chicago Bears. I think there are a lot more Europeans that like NFL than there are U.S people who like soccer. But that is understandable with so many huge national sports anyway, unlike in England where football (soccer) is king and only a few other sports, like rugby, circket and tennis are followed. America has a lot of tradtional sports; baseball, basketball, amercian football, ice hockey, whereas soccer is a new sport in the states.
242830
Well, I feel that the reason that baseball and football are much more popular in the US is because they are both games that orginated in the US. Soccer, for instance, orgininated in European countries, and there in those countries, soccer is very popular. Sports that orginate stay the most popular in their country. Also, people sometimes dont enjoy sitting for 45 minutes straight, knowing that the second that they get up to go pee, they miss the only play of the game. And my third point is that there is much more action in both Baseball and Football than there is in soccer.
30091
People have been kicking balls about for thousand of years, but soccer (short for asSOCiation football) was invented by public schoolboys in England in the 1860s. (NB You need to know that in England a 'public school' is actually a private, fee-charging school. Go figure!)
139635
Futbol is a passion. Every little kid plays wants to be like Ronaldo, Maradona, Pele, Valderrama, Beckham, or Roberto Carlos. Futbol is not as complicated (money for equipment) as other major sport. For soccer all you need is a ball and the goal can be anything sometimes you don't even need a goal. Futbol is so big that when your national team plays everything stops, even the churches close during game time. The world cup is the biggest event in the sport, is when the best teams of the world get to fight for the title of World Champions. Even if your country does not make to the final, you still want to see the greatest teams battle it out.
573048
American football players would be stronger and faster, but soccer players would have more endurance.  Depends on how you want to define being in shape...
355858
ahahah. theres no fouls in football btw, thats basketball. I'd say football. You have to learn plays, technique, and study game tapes of the opponent. Rugby is pretty much all-out running around and hitting people. As you can see, much smaller learning curve.
190872
Soccer is better when you are playing it - football is more entertaining to watch.
179394
i would say soccer also because it is widely spread over the globe. I dunno know if you've ever seen all of the riots over soccer games, but it gets pretty bad.there was once a civil war started over a soccer game!
266926
If you're talking about the sport which is stupidely called "soccer" by US people, then you're right, football is really the greatest sport. Basket is boring, and US football doesn't look like nothing.
164936
I really don't think that there is a lot of difference.  Soccer (futbol) is popular as much in Latin America in general as it is in Europe.  Latin America players play in the European leagues too.  I am from South America so I know how crazy we are about futbol.  Also have a lot of friends from Europe and I know they are too.  This is nothing like we see in the Unites States with sports as "American" Football or Basketball.  Soccer is the true global sport.
137794
Soccer is the ultimate physical chess match. To move the ball around and in a way to be able to score is much harder than even hockey. that is why the low score. Also the point that there is not scoring of multiple points as basketball or football and such. Plus the defense is ever present. Not like other sports. And the ball, being much larger than a puck, is harder to sneak pass the goal tender.