Football or Soccer?

Question

Almost all the nations call it football, why is it called Soccer in US and some few other countries?
Football is called football because it is played with foot and carried around as in case of Rugby?
Even the federation is FIFA and not FISA

Answer 1

Soccer. If your a girl.

Answer 2

The term "soccer" came into use in England during the 1880's by university men from Oxford and Cambridge. The use of "association football" as distinct from "rugby football" was already in practice and "soccer" became a colloquialism formed by extending the second syllable of "association". Today it remains a primarily journalistic or conversational term in Britain and throughout the Commonwealth, but in the United States, Canada and Australia its use is the rule.

In its early days soccer in the United States was known as football and when the national governing body of soccer in the United States was formed in 1913, it was known as "The United States of America Football Association." In later years that gave way to "The United States Soccer Football Association" (USSFA) and then to day's "United States Soccer Federation." Many of the state associations in the U.S. contained "football" in their title when they were formed in the early years of the century.

Answer 3

Well America didnt have imagination to call rugby something else, Footbal is the rightway to Soccer. Since you use the whole body in American Football or Rugby. Its just dumb and not understood.

Answer 4

it is football everybody calls it football except for the Americans .the oldest association in the world is the English one and they are called the F A not the S A as this game was invented years before anybody except Indians where in the USA i think we can call it football and the colonials can call it soccer if the want they are rubbish at it anyway

Answer 5

Soccer is Soccer. Football is Football

Answer 6

It's ok you europeans can call it football and we can call our sport American football and we are the oddballs calling your football soccer don't feel bad about it. Just like we are the only ones not using the metric system we are wierd birds but just think of the continuity though.

Answer 7

That's like "why does tha United States not use the metric system" "why does the president hate black people?" "why does the United States have so much freakin sueing and in Britain I heard that there's no sueing because if u try to sue someone and you lose tha case the other person gets the money". Anyway, I really don't know

Answer 8

Football is football and it has come to stay i cant imagine calling it soccer !thers noting cool about the word SOCCER * ; *
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Answer 9

I agree,Football all the way. It's the original name. Enough of this soccer name and let's call it FOOTBALL.

Answer 10

I think cause The americans did not anything about soccer before, and when they did ,they called it soccer

Answer 11

the u.s calles it soccer because football is already taken and it would so much more confusing if there were two footballs