What was  soccer originally called???????????
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Soccer was originally called "association football,"but the existence of the game of American football made differentiation between the sports difficult. Therefore, the term "association football"became known as the word soccer, which is derived from the word assoc. It is the most widely played team game and the most popular spectator sport. It is played by two teams each consisting of 11 men on a rectangular field (110 m x 73 m) having a goal of 7 m wide and 2 m high at either end. At the start of a soccer game, the soccer ball, a spherical leather football, is 27 to 28 inches (69-71 cm) in circumference and 14 to 16 ounces (396-454 grams) in mass. The goalkeeper is the only player that is allowed to handle the ball. The remaining players are permitted kick, dribble, and pass the ball with their feet, head, and trunk. A goal is scored when the ball is sent between the opponent's goalposts.\nSource-Sam
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yes and no.\n\nThe official name of soccer is Association Football.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_(soccer)\n\nIn the USA, we have american football and soccer which are very different from each other.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football\n\nIn Europe and most other parts of the world, football is the termed used for soccer.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_%28soccer%29_names\n\nIn Australia, football is the equivalent of rugby or more specifically, Australian Rules Football.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_rules
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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.
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A version of soccer was infact invented by the Mayas.  The actual formal game we are now used to was invented in England.
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Soccer IS football, Nina. (Not to be confused with that other so-called sport.)
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Many different cultures have played a sport similar to the modern game of soccer but no one can really say with any certainty when or where soccer began but it is known that the earlier variations of what later became soccer were played almost 3000 years ago. \n\n  \n \n\nOne of the earliest forms of soccer in which players kicked a ball around on a small field has been traced as far back to 1004 B.C. in Japan. The Munich Ethnological Museum in Germany has a Chinese text from approximately 50 B.C. that mentions games very similar to soccer that were played between teams from Japan and China. The Chinese kicked a leather ball ( hair-filled ) and it is known with certainty that a soccer game was played in 611 A.D. in the then Japanese capital, Kyoto. \n\nThe Romans played a game that somewhat resembled modern soccer. The early Olympic games in  Rome featured twenty-seven men on a side who completed so vigorously that two-thirds of them had to be hospitalized after a fifty-minute game. \n\nWhile historians kept records of events such as wars and religious movements they had very little interest in preserving the various origins of soccer or many other sports, so no one can say how soccer seems to have spread from Asia to Europe.
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i would say soccer also because it is widely spread over the globe. I dunno know if you've ever seen all of the riots over soccer games, but it gets pretty bad.there was once a civil war started over a soccer game!
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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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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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Futbol - Soccer is a team game whose roots go back to ancient times. Forms of the game were played in such places and times as ancient Rome (harpastum), ancient Greece (harpaston), medieval Italy (calcio) and among the Mayans and Inuit eskimos to mention a few.\n\nThe most modern version of the game originated in England in the 12th century. So popular did the game become that English monarchs including Edward II and Henry IV forbade it among their subjects. They held the belief that the game took interest away from the military sport of archery. In spite of that, the game's popularity continued to grow. Read more at the site listed in sources.
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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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and is this related to soccer how?
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One of the earliest forms of soccer in which players kicked a ball around on a small field has been traced as far back to 1004 B.C. in Japan. The Munich Ethnological Museum in Germany has a Chinese text from approximately 50 B.C. that mentions games very similar to soccer that were played between teams from Japan and China. The Chinese kicked a leather ball ( hair-filled ) and it is known with certainty that a soccer game was played in 611 A.D. in the then Japanese capital, Kyoto. \n\n\nSo i guess the answer is the japanese
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it begins in england few hundreds years ago. they called it football. some want to play it with feet and hands while some want to play it only with feet. so those who want to play it with feet get together and formed an association - football association. so they they call their game association football, later they call it soccer for ease of pronounciation. they call the football with hands and feet rugger ball, which later they call it rugby\n\nthis is true history but I can't remember it. perhaps somebody out there could give details
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American football originated from soccer.Soccer is more universally known as "football"  because soccer players use their feet. Players decided to change the game with restrictions like the no-use of hands rule ....some players, who didn't like that, created rugby. The USA created its own version of the game under the original name "football" with more of a rugby style than soccer.Thanks for asking !
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The roots of the sport are from rugby and soccer (european football).  The form of the game played in the 1870's was a contact sport played with mostly soccer rules.
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Finally, a Brit who knows they created the term!!  Never thought I'd see the day!!  What was the question again?  Oh yeah, Japan calls it soccer.  Go figure.  Anyway, the terms is English loosely from the term association as in FA.  Long long story to it.  Read this stuff and it will all make perfect sense.  http://www.gavinrymill.com/origin-of-the-word-soccer.html\nHappy reading.