1.what is the different between football (soccer) and American football?
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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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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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yes because the football you are thinking of is european style better known as socer we have soccer in the us as well but the us football is played with our hands soccer is played with your feet
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There is only one kind of "football".........American football . \n\nWhy is soccer called soccer and what exactly is a soccer?\n\nAmerican football was started in 1879 with rules instituted by Walter Camp.\nDerived from the English game of rugby, American football was started in 1879 with rules instituted by Walter Camp, player and coach at Yale University. He was general athletic director and head advisory football coach at Yale University from 1888-1914, and chairman of the Yale football committee from 1888-1912. Camp played football at Yale and helped evolve the rules of the game away from Rugby and Soccer rules into the rules of American Football as we know them today.\n\nOne precursor to Walter Camp's influence was William Ebb Ellis, a student at the Rugby School in England. In 1823, Ellis was the first person noted for picking up the ball during the soccer game and running with it, thereby breaking and changing the rules. In 1876, at the Massosoit convention, the the first attempts at writing down the rules of American football were made. Walter Camp edited every American Football rulebook until his death in 1925.\n\nWalter Camp contibuted the following changes from Rugby and Soccer to American football: \n\none side retained undisputed possession of the ball, until that side gives up the ball as a result of its own violations \nthe line of scrimmage \n11 on a team instead of 15 \ncreated the quarter-back and center positions \nforward pass \nstandardized the scoring system, numerical scoring \ncreated the safety, interference, penalties, and the neutral zone \ntackling as low as the knee was permitted - 1888 \na touchdown increased in value to six points and field goals went down to three points - 1912
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Soccer is a fairly new sport in the US.  Other countries have played soccer for decades but the US invented other sports (AKA Football).  Soccer has began to gain popularity though.
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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.
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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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American football is really big here. Soccer is more of a local thing, doesn't have much of a following except for small teams and the few who cheer them on. Too bad really ...
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Football.  We invented it (the UK) and named it, all before America was even discovered, and it's an English word.  So defo football, only americans and australians call it soccer (wrongly).\n\nAmerican football they use their hands as do AFL players so its hardly football
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Could it be because Americans are clueless? American football is a game where the ball is predominantly thrown or carried the ball gets kicked far less then it is thrown or carried.In the rest of the world Football is called football because a ball is predominantly kicked.
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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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American football wasn't developed in the UK, Rugby was developed in the UK. Rugby was introduced to the US, then the rules changed to differentiate American football from Rugby. All the changes, rules, and regulations were made in the US so that American football is a completely different sport than rugby. Therefore, American Football was loosely based on Rugby, but developed into it's own sport. \n\nAnd Einstein was German, not American.
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Soccer is an Amarican word. It was presumably invented because the Americans invented their own football which is a totally different game.
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Football (cad/us) uses hands. Soccer (Football in the rest of the world) is all feet.
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FIFA is the abbreviation of Fédération Internationale de Football Association.\n\nEvery country has a football (soccer in the US) association that regulates the country's' championship. FIFA is the organization that sets the rules how the local associations should operate and make football's rules unified across the world\n\nIt is like the International Olympic Committee and the national Olympic Committees.\n\nThe FIFA world cup is the International Championship for national teams and now its final stage is held in Germany as you allready know. It like the playoffs.
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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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What part of "Football (American)" do you not understand?  It's no secret that American Football is a gazillion times more interesting than soccer.  Soccer is the cure for insomnia.