What does the word "football" mean in different countries?
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it means my second religion
505496
Football is a game which dates back literally hundreds of years but it has changed form a lot over the centuries. It originally started as an unrecognisable game in which two whole villages would compete against each other to fight, kick, punch and brawl their way to carry a ball to a certain target area. The current version of the game started in England in the second half of the 19th century.\n\nAs for introducing it to the world, the first international game was between England and Scotland but I can't say for sure exactly when
595626
Hard to answer, because in the USA football is a whole different game than the soccer games that other countries call football.\n\nYou can probably find the answer at the website below.
434450
There's two parts to this:\nThe origin of American football is in the history of the world's most popular sport: soccer. When soccer -- more universaly known as "football" (which of course makes sense because soccer players use their feet) -- participants decided to change their centuries-old game with restrictions such as the no-use of hand rules, people who disliked this broke away to create rugby. In the states we have created our own version of the game under the same old name "football" with more of a rugby style, the whole time forgetting why we call it that.\n\nThe word "soccer" actually comes from England, where the   modern version of the game originated.\nIn England, there were two types of football: rugby football and association football. The slang term for rugby football was "rugger," and the slang for association football was "assoc." The word "assoc" gradually evolved into "soccer," which was much easier to say.\nWhen association football was introduced to North America, gridiron football (the type played by the NFL and in the Super Bowl) was already well established. To avoid confusion, Americans adopted the British nickname "soccer" for the new sport.
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Soccer is basically the American term for the game of football as it is known in the rest of the world.  What you call football, we call soccer.  What WE call football, you guys call American football.... or worse!
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Football (as the world outside of North America understands the game) is in the oLympics. American Football isn't. There are many theories as to why this is the case, but I'm sticking with the fact that nobody outside North America plays it.
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It's because the term "football" in the US means American Football and not what the rest of the world thinks is "football".  It's the same way in Australia, "football" to them means Aussie Rules Football.  They say soccer just like Americans do.
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In England, they called the official soccer organization the "Football Association", or FA.  Over the years this got shortened "The Assoc", which in turn got shortened even more to Soccer.  When the sport came over to the US, we already had the game of Football, and so this nickname from the English was adopted also.
190805
people play football all over the world. Although it is originated from england at current form i think that in south and central america at all countries they seem to be most fanatic with it
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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!!
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The games of american football, soccer, and rugby all originated from the same basic game but with different rules.  We have to thank the students of the 1880s for the word "soccer". It was the practice amonst the well bred students of Oxford to abbreviate words whilst adding "er" to the end; "brekkers" for breakfast for example. They would be asked if they wanted to play "rugger" ("rugby rules") a student replied "no, soccer", an abbreviation of "association", or the "association rules", also known as the rules of the Football Association in London. As'soc'iation (doesn't really fit with our pronunciation of the word exactly but i see how it makes sense).  Footer was also used and for whatever reason the evovled term "football" became more popular in the UK while the term "soccer" popularized in the US although it was used in the UK for a brief period of time.
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football is a form of entretainment that surpases all american sports because of the global reach it has. Just like the Olympics, the world cup uses nationalism to make millions of dollars.. but the most important thing is with football countries dont have to fight a war or kill each other.. they can play this and the whole world can watch\n\nI only watch football when is this big.. I have a favorite club, but I feel a lot more compelled to watch a game for my country rather than my favorite club
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It depends on what "Football" you are refering to.\n\nSoccer is the American word for what the rest of the world calls Football, because American's have a different sport called Football.\n\nAmerican Football is nothing like the world's Football.\n\nFootball (Soccer):\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer\n\nAmerican Football:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football
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In UK there were two forms of football, Rugby football and Association football.  Association Football became soccer for short when it got confused with Rugby.  Now Football is so popular in the uk everyone assumes you mean soccer, but in the US if you say football, everyone assumes Gridiron unless you say otherwise.
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Soccer - I grew up in Europe, and I just can't and won't understand American football.
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This probably is not true but....\n\nFootball was going to be used for a new game in which players carried the ball with their hands most of the time in America.  Thus soccer was the name given to the previous game known around the world as football.
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Football is the only event which is known in every country around the world.....Its the universal language....Therefore its such a grand cultural phenomenon