Soccer or Football. Which one do YOU think it should be called?
368415
Football. It's played with the feet!
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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.
528615
Well since this is AMERICAN FOOTBALL I think you chose the wrong thing for FIFA. Sorry I just get tired of people who don't go by the proper catergory, when there is one that specifies as soccer.
1152287
none.... we should call it.....futbol!!
129703
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!
694711
Soccer for sure. There is no other game like it in the world. You need so much skill in soccer compared to basketball and throwing a ball up in the air and hoping it goes in. You need endurance, finess, and the right state of mind to play soccer.
1052327
Soccer is an Amarican word. It was presumably invented because the Americans invented their own football which is a totally different game.
335498
I play soccer myself, and to Americans, football is more important (American football). Therefore, they are unwilling to change their name. This forced true football (Soccer) to be called soccer, in order to differentiate between the two. It's been a tradition and I doubt it will change anytime soon.
987163
Soccer has been has been my favorite for years. The rest of the games are aight but they just don't compare to soccer, and it doesn't acquire all the different components you need to play the "beautiful game." Period.
310321
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!!
1099097
My sentiments exactly. Football (soccer) has been around far longer than American football, so I fail to see why the rest of the world should start calling football by a different name to fit in with one country. American football involves the hands rather than the feet, so why it is known as football anyway is beyond me.\n\nThe hint is in the quote you gave; ''when is the rest of the world going to get the terminology right?''  I suggest that if the whole world except one country calls them footballers, then this is the correct terminology.\n\nTo me 'soccer players' will always be footballers.
427451
Soccer is better when you are playing it - football is more entertaining to watch.
7251
I would think soccer.  It's almost as serious and riot provoking as religion in some parts of the world.
357424
The proper name of soccer is "association football".\nSource-SAMM
474560
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.
573371
Soccer IS football, Nina. (Not to be confused with that other so-called sport.)
413129
You know, I grew up in a baseball-American football-basketball world as a kid and never really appreciated how exciting soccer can be.  However, right now I have a kid playing teeball and a kid playing soccer.  I have to admit that soccer is a much more exciting, fun, interesting and healthy game for little kids.  As a result, I find myself peeking in on Premier League games, etc. occasionally on cable.