why do americans call football soccer ?
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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.
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.
369273
Because it's football really, not soccer like some keep on calling it.  I don't know why the other sport is called football in the first place.  Well anyways since its real name is "football," like the name suggests you play with your feet not your hands.
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.
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PEOPLE PLEASE USE YOUR COMMON SENSE...SOCCER IS NOT THE CORRECT NAME FOR THAT SPORT..ITS FUTBOL(FOOTBALL)CUZ WHEN U PLAY YOUR FOOT IS TOUCHING THE BALL ALMOST 100% OF THE TIME AND THAT AMERICAN SPORT..WELL WHY IS DAT CALLED FOOT BALL...YOUR FOOT BARELY TOUCHES THE BALL...THAT SHOULD BE ...HANDBALL...LOL... :D AND MY FAVE PLAYER IS THE ONE AND ONLY RONALDINHO...
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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.
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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."
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.
412282
Because in the UK and most of Europe it is Association Football.  In the US their football is American Football so they call AF soccer
1173354
Because soccer is boring you accidentally touch someone its a foul we already have a sport like that also more entertaining than soccer called basketball.  Americans just know how to play sports to entertain the europeans are a bunch of a s s grabing queers
1037708
There isn't a difference. We would usually just refer to it as football, and only use soccer when differentiating it from American Football when talking to dumb Canadians \n\nJust kidding ;)
476085
haha, excellent question. \nBTW, I think that American football is much more boring that soccer. 95% of the game is breaks and time out. Only 5% of the game is actual action.
461059
in Europe/south America/Africa and a part of Asia its called football.....in the USA its called soccer cuz they have another sport thats called football....of course the americans have no logic calling the american football football cuz it looks like a kind of rugby and u dont play it just with the foot....americans r idiots...
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Hard to answer, because in the USA football is a whole different game than the soccer games that other countries call football.\n\nYou can probably find the answer at the website below.
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QUOTE:\n\n"NOOOO and for your information, in AMERICA we call it SOCCER...in case you DIDN"T KNOW THAT!!!!!!!!"\n\nFor your information AMERICA is a continent, and in most part of the continent the game is called "FUTBOL" (not a typo, is a spanish word, born from the english word 'Football')\n\nIn USA, one country placed NORTH AMERICA, like Canada, the game is called soccer. And probably never will be the soccer  called football in USA because that is alrready the name of other sport, the "american football".\n\nBtw, bad called american football, shuld be USA football.\nMexico footbal, Brazil football, Uruguay football, Argentina football,  Ecuador football, etc ... all of them are "AMERICAN" and all of them play football with a spheric ball  :)\n\nJust to clear out some terms.
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Because traditional sports like baseball and football have been played for many years in america. Plus, soccer is dominated more by european players than americans...hard for them to identify with them rather than identify with local (meaning american) stars like michael jordan and Tom Brady than Zidane.
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well it's a ball you kick with your foot!\n\nEdit: english football, americans copied us!