2007-03-02 03:48:57 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Football ➔ Other - Football
Actually, the term soccer originated in England...So, you can't really blame us for it.
As for how the term soccer came to be, it comes from the term aSOCCiation Football. Adding the ER is sometimes a common thing in slang, hence the term soccer.
Why do Americans call it soccer? Because we already have American Football and want to prevent confusion.
2007-03-02 06:33:53 · answer #1 · answered by sweetpanther08 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because we already have a sport called football. And our football is more popular that soccer over here so to not confuse the two what you call football was changed to soccer.
2007-03-02 04:11:12 · answer #2 · answered by everythingszenidontthinkso 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why do the Europeans call soccer football?
2007-03-02 04:07:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That actually has something to do with the shortening of the longer name "Association Football". Somehow a short form of this sport became the word "Assoc", the section in Association. Eventually the word was modified to sound better and become easier to say to "soccer". This is why some call the sport soccer and others still call it football.
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2007-03-02 03:54:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Err, NO the game of soccer is called SOCCER!
It is slang to call soccer football!
2007-03-02 04:02:26 · answer #5 · answered by tattie_herbert 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
eh "Silenz" Mexicans dont call Football soccer........we call it Futbol fukn retarrd....im pretty sure ur not mexico or even noe spanish.....and and Americans are retards too..why call Football (NFL) Football if they play with their hands? They only time they actually kick the ball is kick-off and field-goals.
Plus American Football is **** newais..........."soccer" or better yet REAL Futbol is better than American Football.
2007-03-02 04:16:03 · answer #6 · answered by el Don 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
lolol.... Humm, not sure why we use the word soccer but probably because along time ago we took boats across the sea from europe to america and forgot the rules to the sport so we made up our own version of the sport and combined it with a few other sports and continued to call it football. aka american football. I guess soccer just fell into place after we realized we screwed up the rules of the sport. lol dunno..
2007-03-02 04:00:18 · answer #7 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
because they already had a sport called football.
2007-03-02 15:28:09 · answer #8 · answered by Se7eN 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
will because americans got jealous, stole the name and gave it to a gay sport where u use ur hands like 90 percent of the time and ur feet like 10 percent. dumbasses
2007-03-05 17:28:39 · answer #9 · answered by moe d 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Becasuse brits call it soccer
2007-03-02 04:07:58 · answer #10 · answered by jasonpickles 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋