So who thinks the americans should rename the "sport" they call football. ITS NOT SOCCER ITS FOOTBALL
357331
Don't get me started on this!\nThe numpties that call it soccer need a slap
869522
If this is a serious question, I will give you the real answer...\n\nWhen the sport was "created" it was called "American football" because the sport of the world at that time was "football" (what is called soccer in the US).\n\nOver time, soccer became a little known sport in the US, and the "American" became unnecessary, hence American football became football.\n\nThe term soccer comes from the "Football Association"... at one time, football split into two sports: what we call soccer, and rugby.  The Football Association endorsed regular football, so those who played football became "soccers" from "asSOCiation" and those who played rugby became "ruggers"\n\nBest of luck!
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.
1052327
Soccer is an Amarican word. It was presumably invented because the Americans invented their own football which is a totally different game.
769213
We say soccer so the Americans know what are we talking about....But the real Football is the round ball game ....
318031
Long live football, and I mean the game where you score touchdowns.  In the great American tradition, we took the name for our sport, and now you must change your sport of "football" to soccer.  Deal with it.
349038
because football is called soccer \nAmerican football is when we use our hands.. but we just call it football for short.
426214
Here's the answer from The Guardian:\n\n"It's actually fairly dull, Stuart, if you were hoping for some amusing anecdotal reason for Americans calling football 'soccer'. The formal term for football is 'association football', which, even before generation text, was usually reduced to 'assoc', which very quickly became 'soccer'. So now you know."\n\nThe answer is near the bottom of the page of the link below.
1151323
I don't think so. They encourage fair play and that's what is being acomplished. We don't want soccer to become a version of American football.
713810
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!
819034
Everton.\n\nSome of you are naming teams that play that silly American game which isn't football at all. Please stop.\n\nClue: FOOT, BALL.\n\nThis is YA UK & Ireland!
1171882
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...
670030
They should call it Gridiron football and not football as kicking the ball is such a small part of the game. (Like the British call their game Rugby football).\nSoccer does not get as much airplay as gridiron because they have to wait 45 minutes before the commercial break,(opposed to every 15 minutes with Timeouts with gridiron).\nI heard that the American sponsors wanted to turn football into a game of 4 quarters when they staged the World Cup (tm) over there.
309801
yes it is football, it is not soccer.. you have won.. well done :)
312685
Are you freaking nuts??????????????????\nHere football is uniting countries and destroying regionalism and you want to ban it.\nAnd I suppose we all should follow some dumb game like Cricket or Baseball.\nFootball is THE BEAUTIFUL GAME
1185520
Its only in america that soccer is called soccer otherwise go to other countries and you will find them calling soccer football. Infact i was surprised to go USA and found out that football is another sport altogether.
1050553
Because Americans don't care anything about soccer. That's not to say soccer is a bad sport - we just prefer football, baseball, and basketball.