Especially for the North Americans, but not exclusively for them: if the name of the highest competition in...

Question

this sport is called FIFA World Cup, in which FIFA means Fédération Internationale de Football Association (see the word "football"), if the word "soccer" is just an abreviation of "Football Association" (see "football" again), why do you call it "soccer" and why do you call a sport in which you pass the ball with your HANDS, carry it with your HANDS, score using your HANDS... football?! Does it make sense to you?

P.S. If you want to tell me that you do kick that ball sometimes, then I could tell you that in football we do hit the ball with the head, sometimes, but we don't call the game "headball".
P.S. 2: If you want to blame it on the people who were using this abbreviation (socca or soccer) to name the game, then maybe we should change "Let's play some American football" into "Let's play some nefel (NFL)".

Drew, I already knew that. I even mentioned that in the question. But, anyway, thank you for your answer.

Answer 1

We call it soccer because we are a country full of idiots who like to watch cars go around in circles 250 times, and because we are completely ignorant and discard the fact that football is the worlds most popular sport.

Answer 2

It is "American" Football. That is why we can say all that. We call football soccer because we already have a sport called football. And yea, it should not be exclusively to the Americans, as the term soccer actually originated in England.

Answer 3

The name soccer was derived from what some people called it when American Football was introduced. They called it "Association Football". They then sometimes shortened this to "assoc." which resembles "soccer".

Answer 4

And, Englishmen, why do you name a sport after a bug: "Cricket" ??????