they call football soccer when the rest of the world calls it football why is it called football cos u kick the friggin ball with your feet american football you use your hands americans gotta love em
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You sir, are a waste of space and are stealing oxygen from the intelligent people.  Please, begin holding your breath immediately.
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http://www.faqfarm.com/Q/Why_do_they_call_football_'football'
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Hi.I love soccer but I call it football.The reason I like football is simply because it is the best sport in the world, to me.My fav national team is Brazil of course and fav club Barca.Unfortunately I never got to go to Germany for the world cup.\n\nGreetz from good ol' Trinidad!!!
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Its the american and Australian saying for it. I mean here in England it has always been soccer, but americans call American Football there football so i guess its not a big deal. It will always be football to me and we gave it the name first so its not that bad.
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Association football, soccer or simply football is a team sport played between two teams consisting of eleven players each. It is a ball game played on a rectangular grass field with a goal at each end. The objective of the game is to score by manoeuvring the ball into the opposing goal. Other than the goalkeepers, players may not use their hands or arms to propel the ball in general play. The winner is the team which has scored most goals at the end of the match.\n\nThe sport is known by many names throughout the English-speaking world, although football is the most common. Other names, such as association football and soccer, are often used to distinguish the game from other codes of football, since the word football may be used to refer to several quite different games.\n\nFootball is played at a professional level all over the world, and millions of people regularly go to football stadia to follow their favourite team, whilst billions more avidly watch the game on television. A very large number of people also play football at an amateur level.\n\nAccording to a survey conducted by Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), football's governing body, published in the spring of 2001, over 240 million people regularly play football in more than 200 countries in every part of the world. Its simple rules and minimal equipment requirements have no doubt aided its spread and growth in popularity. In many parts of the world football evokes great passions and plays an important role in the life of individual fans, local communities, and even nations; it is therefore often claimed to be the most popular sport in the world. Because of this it is often dubbed the World's Favourite Pastime.
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Football (cad/us) uses hands. Soccer (Football in the rest of the world) is all feet.
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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!)
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I think soccer should have been named "football" as well, because MOST of the game is played with the foot.  Why not call what we call soccer "football" and what we call football (american football) soccer? It avoids calling the game "handball" like has been previously mentioned, especially because you use more than just your hands in american football. \n\nAs to WHY we don't call it football, I don't know, but it would be more logical.  Too late now...
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football is a mans sport.... LOL\n\nyo! stfu u r a typical american talking crap as per usual!!\n\nYou wanna see a mans sport watch rugby or Aussie rules, similar to your "football" except that there is NO padding and NO helmets worn and the umpires dont stop the game the moment things get rough!!\n\nFootball (the real football) is a game of skill and stamina not about who can kill the other.\n\nSoccer is what americans call football because you call that other game football the one we (the rest of the WORLD) call American Football, which LouisLondon rightly pointed out has NO ball and no talented way of using your feet except to run.
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It doesn't matter, both can be called football. \n\nAustralia has their own version of football.  So does Ireland. \n\nAmerica adopted the word "soccer" from the South Africans and Australians.
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The sport is called soccer in the United States and Canada. But in many countries it is called football, the name Americans give to an entirely different game. In Spanish-speaking countries, where the game is especially popular, the name is fútbol. \n\nWHAT IS SOCCER?\n\nSoccer is a game played by two teams on a field that is shaped like a rectangle. Players on one team try to knock a round ball through the other team’s goal. The field they play on is roughly the size of an American football field.\n\nWHAT ARE THE RULES?\n\nEach soccer team has 11 players. The players can use any part of their bodies to hit the ball, except their hands or arms. Players generally use their feet and heads as they kick, dribble, and pass the ball toward the goal. One player on each team guards the goal and tries to prevent the other team from scoring. This player is the goalkeeper, or goalie. The goalkeeper is the only player allowed to touch the ball with the hands while the ball is in play.\n\nThe other players are divided into defenders, midfielders, and forwards. Defenders, also called fullbacks, try to stop the opposing team from reaching the goal with the ball. Forwards, also called strikers, do most of the scoring. Midfielders, or halfbacks, play defense but also try to score.\n\nHOW LONG DOES A GAME LAST?\n\nMost soccer games are 90 minutes long. They have two 45-minute halves divided by a short break, or halftime. Besides halftime, the action stops only when a team scores, a foul is committed, or a player is injured. The official who makes sure the rules are followed is called the referee. The referee can add extra time at the end of each half to make up for time lost during delays.\n\nHOW OLD IS SOCCER?\n\nPeople have played kicking games with balls since ancient times. The modern form of soccer came from Britain. It dates from the 1860s, when the rules were first written down. \n\nBy the late 1800s, British sailors, traders, and soldiers had carried the game all over the world. Professional soccer leagues soon appeared in many countries. Today, almost every country in Europe, North America, and South America has professional soccer leagues. So do many countries in Africa and Asia.\n\nOne country where soccer didn’t grow very fast was the United States. It wasn’t until the 1970s that many Americans began to follow it. After that, the sport took off. Today, millions of Americans play soccer in schools, colleges, and local leagues.\n\nTHE WORLD CUP\n\nThe World Cup is an international soccer tournament held every four years. There is one World Cup tournament for men and another one for women. The World Cup for men is the most popular sporting event in the world. More than a billion people around the world watch the men’s World Cup on television. \n\nThe 1994 men’s World Cup took place in the United States, as did the 1999 women’s World Cup. Both tournaments helped increase the popularity of soccer in the United States.\n\nWHO ARE SOME FAMOUS SOCCER PLAYERS?\n\nMany soccer fans consider the Brazilian forward named Pelé to be the best soccer player of all time. Pelé led Brazil to three World Cup titles, the last one in 1970. He won fame for his amazing ball control and powerful shots.\n\nEnglish player David Beckham is famous for his long, curving shots. An attacking midfielder, Beckham led the English national team to the quarterfinals in the 2002 World Cup.\n\nRonaldo, another Brazilian forward, is known for his great speed and scoring ability. In 2002, Ronaldo scored both goals in the World Cup final, giving Brazil the championship.\n\nThe American player Mia Hamm is considered one of the greatest female players ever. A forward, Hamm is the all-time leading scorer in international soccer. In 1999, she led the United States to the women’s World Cup title.
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First American style football is not only played in the US, but also Europe has leagues, just to name one other location. Both fields are rectangular, with the sidelines (touchlines) being longer than the end lines (goal lines). Both have a midfield, but after these 2 things, it is pretty much over with what is alike.
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American football is something like rugby. In fact I wonder why they even call it football since they kick the ball very rarely. I personally find it very boring, most of the time the players just sit there waiting for the game to start again.
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Yes but Soccer was in fact invented as a name in the UK even though we call the game football.\n\n\n\nThe English still called it a game of "football" because the ball was played primarily with the feet but in the late 18th Century, the word, "soccer", was first used by a student of Oxford University by the name of Charles Wreford Brown. The students at Oxford were known for using slang where they added "er" to the end of words that they intentionally shortened. The game of Rugby was called "rugger". Brown shortened the word "association" and added "er" and the term "soccer" was born.\n\nhttp://ezinearticles.com/?The-Origin-of-Soccer&id=244527
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I can see your frustration, but imagine what it's like to call the sport that currently has it's World Cup in Germany the name of a different sport in you current dialect. Football could mean a variety of sports.\n\nsee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football
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The word soccer is a colloquial abbreviation of association (from assoc.) and first appeared in the 1880s. The word is sometimes credited to Charles Wreford Brown, an Oxford University student said to have been fond of shortened forms such as brekkers for breakfast and rugger for rugby football. In the late 19th century the word soccer tended to be used only at public schools; most people knew the game simply as football. Today the term association football is rarely used, although some clubs still include Association Football Club (AFC) in their name. The game is sometimes known colloquially as footy; the term footer was also once used but is now obsolete.
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The rules of football were codified in England by the Football Association in 1863, and the name association football was coined to distinguish the game from the other forms of football played at the time, specifically rugby football.\n\n The term soccer first appeared in the 1880s as a slang abbreviation of Association football, often credited to Charles Wreford-Brown.\n\nToday the sport is known by a number of names throughout the English-speaking world, the most common being football and soccer.\n\n The term used depends largely on the need to differentiate the sport from other codes of football followed in a community. Football is the term used by FIFA, the sport's world governing body, and the International Olympic Committee.\n\n\nIn the United States, the sport's governing body is the United States Soccer Federation. \n\nThis body was originally called the U.S. Football Association, and was formed in 1913 by the merger of the American Football Association and the American Amateur Football Association.\n\n The word "soccer" was added to the name in 1945, making it the U.S. Soccer Football Association, and it did not drop the word "football" until 1974, when it assumed its current name.\n\n Today, "soccer" is the standard name for the sport in the United States, with "football" referring instead to American football.