Why do Americans call the game soccer, while the rest of the world calls it football?
465701
because we are american
794198
It doesn't matter, both can be called football. \n\nAustralia has their own version of football.  So does Ireland. \n\nAmerica adopted the word "soccer" from the South Africans and Australians.
51197
Football is the term use in England, Soccer is the term use in Stated.  Both are the same sport, unless you are talking about 'American Football'.
1055703
its cuz we are amreicans, we always do things that the rest of the world does in reverse. We dont use the metric system, the rest of the world does, we dont call your football football, we call it soccer, its just the way we are.
40539
The international game known as Football (or Futbol) - what Americans refer to as "soccer" - has only gained popularity in America in the last few years, and has never been a popular spectator sport here.  Although American football does involve hand-touching, it is one of the few games played here that involves kicking the ball, so that's probably where the name came from.
349555
Because they have a problem or course.  Americans like the sports they invented and just for this reason they think US sports are the best.  But Football the original, not American football, has greater dimensions than any other sport, and that is why the whole world knows it's the best.
481378
The name of the sport in England was called "Association Football."  That was shortened in the U.S. to "Assoc. Football" then eventually to "soccer" from "Assoc."
443466
why do americans call football 'football'?\n\nthey dont even use their foot!!!
792911
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
1122471
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.
1093191
I wonder why soccer is called soccer and the rest of the world calls it football.  I mean it makes sense, soccer should be called football and american football should be called stupid people sport.
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!!
660693
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.
71193
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.
430795
The USA did not start playing football when the sport first gained popularity aroung the world. The reason for this was a form of rebellion against the British. When the USA was a new country it did not want to have anything the do with the British this included sports. The USA developed a new game that is now known as Football in the USA. When football gained some form popularity in the USA they had to give a new name here. Soccer. Where they got the name soccer from? That's a mystery to me.
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.
598134
The word "soccer" actually comes from England, where the modern version of the game originated. In 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. When 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.