
Is it soccer or is it football?


My uncle told me that "soccer" is actually what the English used to call it, it is short for something now I don't remember what, vs Europeans always said "football" and we got "soccer" from England which later got "football" from Europe. We didn't just make up "soccer". However since we have another sport called "football" that is more popular here it would be confusing if we also switched from saying "soccer" to saying "football".
I played soccer for two years in middle school but it was a little rough for me so I switched to tennis.
Except in the USA where we stubborn Americans insist on the term soccer, it's really football all over the world.
It is both. And sorry, but the name "soccer" does make perfect sense, too, when you understand the history of the term.
https://www.britannica.com/story/why-do-some-people-call-football-soccer#:~:text=Because%20the%20sport%20originated%20in,is%20thoroughly%20British%20in%20origin.
I tell you what, let's compromise: we'll call it "Metric football" as distinct from "American football". That kinda leaves Liberia and Myanmar out in the lurch, but you probably haven't thought of either of those countries in the past decade. Would that satisfy you?
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Most people don't realize that the word soccer originated in England, as a short form of asSOCiation football. So, it's actually both... football and soccer. Most of the world uses football, which makes sense because the majority if the game is played with your feet.
FYI, when talking about the other football, where most of the game us played with your hands, I tend to be explicit and call it American Football.
It's "football".
Only the Americans like to call their shit pig skin hurling as "football". Whereas we civilised folk call it "American football" or "padded rugby"
Football in the rest of the world soccer in the US
Soccer. As an American I say it is most definitely soccer
Soccer
football sounds too much like American football
Hbu what u think
I'm British so naturally I would have to go with football!
The name makes more sense, doesn't it? You play football with your feet
Let's wait and see who gets knocked out of the tournament first! 😉
It's football all over the world outside the US, so football.
Football makes more sense in my opinion. I don’t know why we don’t call the other sport rugby here in America. But in the end I’ll still call them what I’m used to.
In England it's considered deeply offensive to use the term soccer. Football is football. Unless it's American football, which we call American football.
It Football. Only the people of USA has started calling it soccer which is even dumb
People need to call it soccer because America.
It's football. Because it's played with feet. The other sport is American "football".
It's a game played with the feet, so obviously football.
Soccer. Or you can just call aerobics with a ball if you like. But I got to give soccer players credit. They're not dumb enough to play real football.
Football. The first F in FIFA stands for Football. Its played with the feet. Think thats a strong enough case.
Football... It's literally about people kicking a ball with their feet...
Meanwhile...
Americans : lol nice try...
Football, even the majority (18/31) of the MLS teams have the word football in their team name

Football.
It’s football everywhere in the world except USA it’s soccer.
Depends on what country you happen to be in at the moment.
It's Football.
The other one is American Football.
I call Gay Ball. Bunch of homos running around
I live in America so I call it soccer but the rest of the world calls it football.
It is football even though in America, we call it soccer
I call it soccer
Should be Football everywhere
Looks like soccer to me.
Depends what country your from
Nope, that's called synchronized diving.
Football/ Fußball here
Option C: The most boring sport on Earth.
I have always called it soccer.
Football.
It’s football.
Neither. I call it professional diving.
it is soccer.
It' s football and had always been.
Does it really matter? Soccer is such a boring sport.
To you perhaps but not to billions around the world
Soccer
football
What ever the females or girls won't to call it
Soccer
it's soccer
Its called Football.
What's the difference?
football!
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