Why do American people call my football there soccer?

Question

Cause i've seen a american football match and it doesn't make sense!

Football (soccer) was made lik 1000 years ago and american football is new so erm... i think they need to get REAL

Answer 1

OK I know that the English/Europeans call it Football because the game is played with the skills of the foot etc, but I'm an Aussie and we call it soccer too. I don't understand why you guys get so bent out of shape over what other countries relate to as the name or code of a game or sport. Countries are different and have different names for more things that the codes of sport. You call it football, we call it soccer, we say footy, you guys say league. It doesn't matter. Whatever it's called isn't the point, the point is the game and people's love and support for it. Celebrate our differences in language and grammar, it's what makes each of our countries and sports unique. It's not meant as an offence. It;s just the way it is.

Answer 2

Obviously if you don't think that football in America makes sense, you don't know what you are watching. I hate football, but the game makes sense and has rules, it is a real game. Maybe the question should be "Why do Europeans call soccer football and why don't they play real football?

Answer 3

Why do you care what we Americans think? The reason is because we don't really find your football (our soccer) all that interesting. We get a lot of people over on our football board making the same whine that you do. Why do you so badly need our approval?

Answer 4

What you know as football was introduced to us only in the last 30 years and by then we already had a sport called football, so this sport was given the name Soccer. I love it, but you have to realize most Americans have not been exposed to what I call European football. It 's catching on though little by little. I'm a JUVENTUS fan, the only one in Texas I believe.

Answer 5

Because thats what its called everywhere. Its not rugby football, its not American Football, its not Aussie rules Football. Its soccer

Answer 6

I agree with you, American football should not be called football, since the word 'foot' implies the playing method. It resembles Rugby and should be termed more adequately as Rugbyball. But, I guess American's feel that since they kick the ball with their foot that's as close as they'll get to the term 'football.'

Answer 7

Because in the US, American football is called football,
so they picked the name soccer for your football because the latin root soc means foot.
I find this very stupid, because american football rarely uses their feet.

Answer 8

Canadians also call "soccer" by its proper name: "soccer".

Football - the kind played with a football and not a soccer ball - is actually an interesting game, one worth watching.

Soccer.....well, i can't say anything constructive, because i just can't fathom its appeal.

Answer 9

I can't really answer that, but it does make sense for what we call soccer to be called football, as it's the one you actually play with your feet. What we call football should be called.... testosterone, or something, heh.

Answer 10

american thinking are weird and different with the rest of the world....as u know football is something related with a ball which will be play by using foot, dribble it, run with it and kick it with foot. but in the case of american football, they rarely use their foot to kick the ball but grab it and run with it...with their HAND...they r really stupid to call that game as football...hahaha!! idiot! they should change it to aemican handball?!?!