what is the difference between football and soccer?

Answer 1

It aggatates me that americans call NFL Football because most of the game is based pn using upper part opf there body such as thier arms, they accasionally use there feet when they do a drop kick or whatever its called.

Whereas in what they call Soccer truly should be callled Football beacuse the game is evolved around kicking a "FOOTBALL" and they use there foot to pass, shoot and cross the ball.

Was this America's way of making a better sport then england?

Which England invented (football) - Soccer.

was they trying to make a alternate version with using no feet and keep the name??

Answer 2

What Americans call soccer is called football elsewhere in the world. So, it is better to say that American Soccer and British Football are the same sport.

The official name of the sport is Association Football and the international body governing it is FIFA (Federation International de Football Associatif).

Answer 3

watch the two games and you will see that western football is comparative to rugby, although rugby is faster and a very rough sport too, and soccer is played only with the feet and no hands at all .....need to be very fit to run for two 45 minute periods in soccer unlike the football players of the western world that stand around with all the padding on looking like phone booths and hugging each others butts.

Answer 4

Take note that the official name of soccer is Association Football.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/football_(s...

In the USA, we have american football and soccer which are very different from each other.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/american_fo...

In Europe and most other parts of the world, football is the term used for soccer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/football_%2...

In Australia, football is the term used for rugby (Australian Rules Football).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/australian_...

Answer 5

The difference is that football as we know it in the USA has quarterbacks,punters,fullbacks and such.Also,they have to tackle people when they are going for a touchdown whereas they don't go for touchdowns in soccer here. Check out NFL.com and you'll see all the differences. They also use their hands and not just their feet in football.

Answer 6

In Every other country except Canada and USA...
Football="soccer"=kicking a ball with the feet
In Canada and USA
"football"=A form of Rugby=Trying to snatch a ball with the hands..

Answer 7

In most European countries, nothing. In America soccer is a bunch of grown men playing kickball, while football is a bunch of OVERgrown ment pushing each other around.

Answer 8

football is soccer in the rest of the world.

football in North America is a different sport. try www.nfl.com

Answer 9

soccer is what retards call footie

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Answer 10

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