2006-06-22 16:06:28 · 7 answers · asked by gaurit16 1 in Sports ➔ Football ➔ FIFA World Cup (TM)
the ball,the rules, the players, so many, please be specific.
2006-06-22 16:09:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What Americans call soccer is called football everywhere else in the world (football in British English and French, futbol in Spanish, fussball in German, etc.). There is in an international body governing this sport, so it's safe to say that American soccer and British football are exactly the same sport, even if attracts far more fans in Britain. :)
The official name of the sport is associative football. The international governing body that I mentioned above is referred to as FIFA, from the French "Federation Internationale de Football Associatif" (International Federation of Associative Football). It seems that at some point, "associative football" was abbreviated as "assoc," from which we somehow got the American version "soccer."
All this is complicated by the fact that America has its own game called "football," with helmets and touchdowns and such. This game is completely American, although the rest of the world is beginning to learn about it. To distinguish it from soccer, other countries refer to it specifically as "American football".
2006-06-24 09:39:16 · answer #2 · answered by Ashish kumar Agrawal 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would just like to counter react what the person before said bout being for men, I play all three and im a women. So.. no, not jsut for men. Soccer, you kick round the ball, no hands, unless ur the goalie, rugby and foootball are kind of similar except for ball size and positions..
2006-06-22 16:12:20 · answer #3 · answered by smilenbhappie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
going to school in Birmingham in the early 80's we always called football "soccer". i can remember every breaktime running out to the playground shouting "soccer" in our brummie accents after being in lessons all morning, anyone who called it football would have been thought of as posh and would have been called a puff also in the late 70;s Bob Wilson, former Arsenal keeper, presented a programme on bbc called "soccer" so it baffles me when years later there is a nationwide obsession with hating the word soccer and claiming only the americans ever used it
2016-05-20 12:43:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
football is for Brits, soccer is for yanks, and rugby is for the All Blacks . =D
2006-06-22 20:07:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
3 different kinds of sport
2006-06-22 17:15:38 · answer #6 · answered by venus11224 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of them is a nice game, the other two are sports for men.
2006-06-22 16:09:26 · answer #7 · answered by You'll Never Outfox the Fox 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋