in some countrys they call soccer football, well why do they and not here in the U.S.?
208348
in Europe/south America/Africa and a part of Asia its called football.....in the USA its called soccer cuz they have another sport thats called football....of course the americans have no logic calling the american football football cuz it looks like a kind of rugby and u dont play it just with the foot....americans r idiots...
31886
its because the americans always want to be different, they use farenheight, and inches and stuff. but if you havent noticed the mls is almost the worst league in the world, and the only reason the US is good @ football is because alot of the players are in the European league so they get better in those.
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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!
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QUOTE:\n\n"NOOOO and for your information, in AMERICA we call it SOCCER...in case you DIDN"T KNOW THAT!!!!!!!!"\n\nFor your information AMERICA is a continent, and in most part of the continent the game is called "FUTBOL" (not a typo, is a spanish word, born from the english word 'Football')\n\nIn USA, one country placed NORTH AMERICA, like Canada, the game is called soccer. And probably never will be the soccer  called football in USA because that is alrready the name of other sport, the "american football".\n\nBtw, bad called american football, shuld be USA football.\nMexico footbal, Brazil football, Uruguay football, Argentina football,  Ecuador football, etc ... all of them are "AMERICAN" and all of them play football with a spheric ball  :)\n\nJust to clear out some terms.
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I think Europeans are a lot more open minded than American sports fans. There are a lot of sports in Europe already that are barely recognized in the US (like field-hockey and fencing)\n\nI think the European would be open to American football if they can understand the (compared to soccer much more complicated) rules and the scoring sytem. \n\nThe main challenge is: WHAT WOULD YOU CALL IT? Over there, "football" is already taken by a sport, where you actually move the ball with your feet!
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Soccer is just begining to get popular in the US as more youth and people are getting involved in it. As the more famous names come to the US, the more popular it gets.\n\nI believe it isnt as big in the US because American Football has taken the higher position here. As you see, soccer isnt even shown too much on TV or in magazines such as sports illustrated because half of their pages cover either American Football or Baseball. So when it isnt publicized enough, people don't really care much for it.\n\nThe rest of the world is a common place for soccer because it started with people as children. Many children in Europe, Africa, etc grew up playing only soccer (because soccer was their only main sport in the country) in their streets and I believe it spreads from there.\n\n\nHope that helps,\nGood luck
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In the early days of this game, an association was set up in England to codify the rules.  The game was sometimes referred to as "association football," probably to distinguish it from other variations.  "association" was abbreviated to "assoc.," so the game was nicknamed "soccer."\nSince the term "football" was already used in the U.S. to describe a different game, the name "soccer" stuck here.
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Yeah it's popular in Europe too.\nLots of kids in those countries play soccer.  Soccer is even popular in the United States.  I see lots of vans and SUVs with soccer logos on the bumpers.  Lots of soccer moms and lots of leagues.
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first mate : it is called football , i don't know why you lot call it soccer just because all your sports are shite or what?\nsecond : the usa are shite at it so why bother trying to play with the big boys???\ncome on england\n\nif england don't make it then i want any team who kicks the usa out to win
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TeamUSA plays all over the world.\n\nI coach American football here in Germany and I know it's played in Italy, Spain, Austria, and France for sure...maybe even other countries...\n\nIt's not as popular as it is in America for a number of reasons: \n\nWork Ethic is number one...American football takes practice and dedication...daily....Europeans aren't into that at all...they want a sport they can do quick and easy without a lot of fuss.\n\nAggression and guts are number two: no one in the world has the kind of aggression and intestinal fortitude that can match an American.\n\nMoney: American football, like other sports in America, started cheaply and without a lot of pay to the players...thats preposterous in Europe - where graf and payola and bet hedging are practically commonplace. It's all about money over here.\n\nLastly it's all about physical education and sports programs in school. In Europe, Phys Ed in school is organized grab ass, soccer, dodge ball, and badminton if you have a really advanced program....the legal age to play contact football in Europe starts at 16!!!
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Soccer didn't pick up in the US becouse our history tried to issolate ourselve from Europe, we tried to remove Europrian culture and influince in the US. We have begun to reverce our views and join Europe, but it's a slow process. The key reason is there is little Major leage Soccer attation, outside the World Cup, people know little about US professianl soccer. We have Football or "American Soccer" as europe would call it translated, we have Baseball while they have Rugby and Cricket.
645141
For generations they are hook to the football, where it was shown  prime time on TVs..where as the very interesting soccer matches from European leagues, especially the English league were shown live from 7am to 11am time zone, when they are still in bed or busy with their marketing chores! and all because of the geographical location of the USA..There might be some other reasons, but mine`s must be one of the reasons. I hope so!
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I think it's stupid to make your argument "soccer is not popular in the US because of shootouts."  If that was a reason for soccer to not be popular, then it wouldn't be popular not ONLY in the US but in other parts of the world as well.  Why is it that US fans exclusively can't like soccer because of that?  I'm not saying that shootouts are good or that Americans should like football, but it's absolutely ridiculous to limit this reason to why Americans don't like it.  There are many other plausible reasons for why the US is not a soccer-dominated country.  We have other "American" sports (football, baseball, etc.).  It's like why Canada's hockey is so popular while hockey's not so hot in say, France.  Also, you can't compare two sports; as the cliche goes, it's like comparing apples and oranges.  Baseball and soccer both have their good/bad points, but they are completely different sports played different ways.  Baseball is definitely less physical, because you don't see the players running around every single minute of the game; most of the time they stand there and then when making plays, they run around and throw the ball.  I don't claim to be a great expert on either sport, but once again, not liking shootouts and thus not liking soccer is not a reason exclusive to American fans for not liking soccer.\n\nOkay, now to answer the other part of your lengthy question lol.  I think shoot-outs are a clean-cut way of determining the winner in a match.  You shoot goals; make them, you win.  Miss some, you lose, go home.  They test the individual skills of the players and while I do regret that they don't test the strength of a team as a whole, they do eliminate one major problem that people have with soccer matches: biased refs.  Here, the ref can't call fouls where there are none and if a goal goes in, fans can't complain that somehow the ref was paid off to look the other way.  In a sudden death match, the winners' fans would celebrate and the lowers would always see something wrong or corrupted about how they just weren't lucky.  While the argument could be made that in a normal round, this happens all the time, so why not just have that determine the end, you have to realize how difficult it is to play such a physically challenging sport as soccer for such long periods of time lol.  What if the game went on for a whole day without an end, like in Harry Potter's Quidditch?  That may not seem plausible, but it certainly would be possible.  Lastly, I think it's only fair that each team knows how much time they have to score a goal rather than just seeing who scores first.  In such a case, I can definitely see the match getting increasingly dirtier as each team must not only score/defend, they know that under no condition can they allow the other team to make a goal.\n\nxexect - About your message, sorry if I seemed harsh :/.  I'm not trying to insult you yourself, but rather, I felt that your argument was flawed.  However, judging by what you have written and your analysis on the other part of the question, I would definitely say that you're not stupid!
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This is a nod to soccer tradition I suppose, as well as some strange way to try and get fans hooked in. It's not unprecedented.\n\nWe have Chivas, USA now.  Also in South America you'll find a lot of clubs with English names: Racing, Boca Juniors, The Strongest, Newell's Old Boys, Everton, etc... These were clubs founded in the shadow of the English leagues.\n\nI suppose naming a club after a successful club in another country is a way of stating your aspirations for the club.
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Soccer may never really catch on in America.  The game has too few breaks for TV stations to show commercials.\nOf all the soccer teams in the world, it still was quite an accomplishment for the USA to be in last two semi-finals.
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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.
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US is to new to the world of soccer. Look at it this way US start really play soccer no more than 15 years ago, every were else soccer has been played for centuries. Who do you think has better schools for soccer. So the US just needs to stick to it and evensually they will break through.