It should be called by its real name, FOOTBALL
2006-10-17 01:45:59 · 16 answers · asked by Bengal Striker 3 in Sports ➔ Football ➔ FIFA World Cup (TM)
Why don't you Americans just call your football egg-chasing? Damn, seriously - calling Football "soccer" is like calling an African the "n word".
2006-10-17 03:53:20 · answer #1 · answered by Milad . 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, we already have football, American Football. So we call the other sport Soccer. Since American Football is about 100 times more popular than soccer, why would we change the names now?
And just an FYI....Rugby and American Football are not the same sport!
2006-10-17 08:54:30 · answer #2 · answered by ~mj~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How many times are we going to have to explain why the tearm SOCCER is used!?! Its because of countries OTHER than England that have their own National Football code and to avoid confusion they call it soccer.
2006-10-17 09:01:55 · answer #3 · answered by ANA83 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They call it soccer in America. So they don't confuse it with American football.
2006-10-17 08:55:02 · answer #4 · answered by Vanilla C 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
...just so we can differentiate it from football [i.e American football] I am sure that in Europe it is called football but in Canada and the US, the term "football" is for another kind of team sport
2006-10-17 08:55:52 · answer #5 · answered by mørbidsшεεŧnεss 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I call it football and soccer but i prefer football!!!!!
2006-10-17 12:09:46 · answer #6 · answered by <3Portugal Lover<3 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i know. soccer is so stupid. its because americans call ragby football so they cant have 2 diferent sports having the same name
2006-10-17 08:52:42 · answer #7 · answered by ♥ Ywanica ♥ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its called the 'beautiful game' in Australia.
2006-10-17 08:55:35 · answer #8 · answered by CHRIS.P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
football also means rugby to the americans.... american football is alos noen as footbal... to prevent confusion between these two types of footballs, we call rugby as football, n football as soccer...
2006-10-17 08:54:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Soccer" is a contraction of the word "association" in the full term "association football".
2006-10-17 08:51:21 · answer #10 · answered by Jon B 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋