why do americans call football "soccer", and in thier footy they run around with the ball in thier hands?

Question

buzzbait.. i know wot sports you play over there, im just askin why you call it soccer instead of football, and i do play football.(the one that you use your feet). stain.

Answer 1

Soccer is a contraction of "Association football"

All "pick up and run" versions of "football" derive from that game - William Webb Ellis picked up the ball while playing football at Rugby School and the game of Rubgy Football was created.

American football, Canadian Football, Aussie Rules Football all derive from Rugby Football.

EDIT

FAO opaalvare.....

In Latin America they call the throwing and running game Rugby ... Especially in Argentina

Answer 2

Your reasons are valid ln Latinamerica they call the
carry around and manual throwing of passes varuety
AMERICAN FOOTBALL and the standard game played
with the FEET simply FOOTBALL as it is called ALL
OVER THE WORLD

Answer 3

We also call it soccer here and instead of football we play rugby...In South Africa of course

Answer 4

We still kick our football sometimes to make field-goals etc. So we just went with football

The goalie uses his hands to block the ball in "football" so we decided to call it soccer. j.k

Answer 5

We don't....we play football AND soccer over here....we happen to know the difference....we also play a sport called basket ball....why does it bother you what kind of sports we play and what we call them? Maybe you need to take up a sport and quit worrying about us.

Answer 6

i understand why we call football, soccer...We got it from "association football". But I don't understand why we call american football, football....not a bit. it's the strangest thing.

Answer 7

coz americans jus wanna be different...jus like americans still use inches and pounds as the SI Units instead of metres and kilograms.

Answer 8

Because we can call it whatever we want.

Answer 9

coz they are stupid! it shud be called american rugby