Why do AMERICANS call it SOCCER? 

She actually looked so stupid saying that 😂

Is tht really a valid point, there are two footballs

@@djlani.868 yes, because American football was called football looong after the sport already existed with the mentioned name so the Americans could have come up with another name.

the amount of stupidity!

@@Marina_-_- it's how they usually look like

That's the answer Everything else is a lie

America is top dog in the world. We don't follow anybody else Btw ,we called our game football before Britain and Europe called their game football. Britain originally called it soccer . You all are psycho

tOp DoG Cala a boca gringo de merda

And you are part of the problem! America is a continent and not a country! Most "AMERICANS" called it football anly US called it soccer.

@@miguelgarr576 The only part of the world that calls it one giant continent is former Spanish/Catholic colonies. The entire rest of the world know it is the Americas (plural) and that the word America can represent more than one concept. Como muchas palabras espanol, no?

He explained it well though. Both games were called football and originated from the same game. One then got the name Association football and another one Rugby Football. In lot of countries especially neighborhood European countries... Association football got much more popular than Rugby football so they ended up omitting the word association.... The bigger game got the rights to the name football. That's it. But because of the disconnected from Europe nature of America, They had a bit of a different development and Rugby football got popular there while Association football vanished. So naturally, they called the bigger game football. But then the less popular football came back after the world got a lot more connected and knowledge started exchanging... And Americans started adapting the Association football back in the country because of its popularity outside. And so , they needed a name and named it Soccer. And it is much better than renaming a sport that is well ingrained into the nation's culture itself. Similarly, Europeans gave the less popular football "rugby" coz it was from Rugby football.

Exactly! They should just named it American rugby instead of football since American "football" rarely uses their feet... Imbeciles really...

Did you watch the video? The name of 'football' originates from sports being played ON feet (to distunguish it from equestrian sports like polo). It has nothing to do with the ball being kicked, rather the entire game being played on foot.

@@cheekmcbreek1146, american football should be called american rugby...

@@blitzchamp3854 The name 'Rugby' in Rugby football comes from the school the original rules were made in. The name 'American' in American football also comes from the place the new rules were made, the USA. The ruleset they use is American, not the Rugby ruleset, it would make no sense to have it named 'American Rugby'. Also, it's still a football sport (sport played on feet), so no reason removing it.

Might be too late now😂

@@supersubsoccer yeah it is 😂 I’m American & always have called it football ⚽️ & American football 🏈 but people get mad when i call it American Rugby 😂

There are MANY differences between American Football and Rugby. First, there is NO Forward pass in Rugby. Just lateral or backward "tosses". In Rugby, due to the very odd shape of the ball, it is not possible to send a pass like in American Football. The ball has to be tossed; usually with two hands. Or, it can be kicked forward. Second, there is not a set system of plays like in football. It's more like in soccer, where you kick the ball around until a lucky guy scores. Third, ONLY the ball carrier can be tackled or blocked. Fourth, in American Football there is no "Scrum" like they have in some versions of Rugby. Which, by the way, they are getting rid of. Great move!!!! Rugby is indeed a very strenuous sport and their players are in excellent shape; much better than soccer players. In spite of that, they are not able to compete when they try to make a transition to American Football; which would be in their best interest. After several years of playing Pro, a great rugby player may make up to 100K. In American Football a ROOKIE player starts earning around Seven hundred thousand yearly. A great difference but, very few Rugby players have been able to make it in the NFL, other than kickers. And the difference in attendance to each sport is abysmal. Even though Rugby is played in many more countries that the US. And, btw, to all those ignorant of the fact, American Football is played professionally in several countries in the world. Maybe not at the same level as the NFL, but some of the players in those leagues have been able to make the transition to the NFL.

@@juliopolina i know all this lol but American football did originated from Rugby football tho especially Rugby league football !!

No, is United States Rugby; look the fuck map gringo

Thank you for the non-biased factual based comment. Much appreciated.

Why did it change in your opinion?

There is NO sport in the WORLD or in any LANGUAGE of the WORLD called "soccer"

The FOOTBALL sport invented in ENGLAND that means BALÓN PIE FOOT PIE BALL BALÓN as its name indicates it is a sport that is played with a BALL and the FEET and is the most popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD long after the idiots of the USA they invented a "sport" that is a cheap copy of rugby and copied the name to the true original and real FOOTBALL, in addition to copying the name to another somewhat illegal sport, they wrongly copied the name because that "sport" that only exists and is consumed in the US is plays with the FOOTBALL HANDS has absolutely nothing, that is, they don't even use to copy names, they even do it wrong and then the shameless US have the audacity to change the name of their real FOOTBALL association only in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call real FOOTBALL "soccer" something that DOESN'T EXIST and only call their fake "sport" "football" insignificant cheap copy of rugby that only ex Is and is consumed in the USA The United States Football Federation was founded on April 5, 1913 under the name of the United States Football Association. A year later, it was incorporated into FIFA in 1914. Until 1974 it was renamed to the current name United States Soccer Federation. In the USA the real FOOTBALL was also called by its name FOOTBALL as in the whole WORLD name that they just changed to their real FOOTBALL association in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call real FOOTBALL "soccer" and so they live in their unreal world falsified and fantasy poor stupid people

FOOTBALL has been called FOOTBALL since it was created in ENGLAND until today 2022. It NEVER changed its name or had another name and it was NEVER EVER called "soccer" The terms "soccer" and "rugger" were just NICKNAMES used by a few Englishmen a long time ago to call FOOTBALL and RUGBY and their use was not even popular even as NICKNAMES, these terms were only used as NICKNAMES by a few Englishmen later never again these terms were not even used as NICKNAMES and the few English people who used these terms as NICKNAMES stopped using them "soccer" isn't even a word, it's the abbreviation of the word ASSOCIATION, that's why the USA got ridiculed to change the name of its real FOOTBALL association only in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call it like this to the true original and real FOOTBALL the biggest popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD and so they live in their unreal falsified and fantasy world poor stupid people

Because they desperately need something to be mad at. Most of these people who are so "passionate" about the sport don't even bother to read the history or understand the sport. They just want to be part of an angry mob and this is a convenient mob to join. Most of them don't even know that soccer isn't an American word.

Yeah, it's no big deal, for example your "football" in my country is called American Rugby and I don't see any Americans offended by that.

@@Vlaadish3 Whatever floats your boat.

They don’t seem to realize that all of us Americans grew up calling it soccer, it’s not like we chose to do so overnight to annoy them. When we learn that it’s called “football” elsewhere, we don’t say “wow I have to call it football now” nor do we say “that’s wrong it’s soccer!!” We just say “oh interesting” and move on with our lives. It’s just a cultural difference, just like the British drive on the wrong side of the road. There’s no way you’re going to convince every American who has called football soccer and American football just football our entire lives to change our terminology overnight, even if we agree with the logic. And American football is called football for the same reason rugby football is called football, so it’s not like we’re too stupid to realize that we use our hands in football, it’s because both sports used to be the same thing once upon a time. So I wish this whole argument would just go away because it isn’t productive nor is it helping the growth of the sport, it’s turning people off it it if anything.

It's not that they are irritated by calling it "soccer", they are irritated to the fact that muricans think it is called soccer and not football, like they think football is a wrong name for that sport.

You completely contradicted yourself. Why are so many soccer fans so stupid?

"Why we don't call soccer, football?" Because 1. what we call it doesn't affect you and its funny how you get so angry at people calling it whatever they want to call it even if you don't agree with them 2. there's already a different sport called football that's more popular in the US and we don't want to get confused brain?

@@adriantsien1867 basketball is called basketball world wide as a american football fan here the only time a ball touches feet is punts and kicks it’s literally not “FOOTBALL “ plus it’s futbol

@@sl1mreapa398 So? Doesn't matter because we call it what we want even if the name itself doesn't make sense. And are you gonna make the world say futbol now because that's how you call it? In case you didn't know there is more than one language in the world and it's common for others to call things differently? Problem?

@@adriantsien1867 Americans do speak English...

@@adriantsien1867 that way I'll america what I want is that fair then? There's an official name for something which is widely accepted worldwide. Americans think it's just the English or brits but no it's fucking worldwide. You can't just call something by your choice when it's widely accepted officially by the world. Lower your ego change name for your own version and call football what the world calls. America is not the center of the world atleast not in football world. And soccer will not be accepted.

Feet and Fahrenheit are old European imperial units and in no way an american invention. American football is a variation of rugby. Why they didn´t call it american rugby is a mystery to me.

Compromise with who? There isn't some international organization of vocabulary? There is a very common sense reason they call it soccer (and the British invented and exported the word soccer, not the U.S.). But everyone is so desperate to make the U.S. the bully that they can't even use common sense.

England still use feet common communication

@@MidosujiSen mile is a useless term, but feet is much easier to convey than 1/3 meter or 33cm, 33 cm has no meaning

@@andrejluneznik9254 Oh so you mean Americans hated their oppressors that much they adopted their language and units? Why they didn't go and adopt steering wheel on right hand side?

Soccer is a British word you moron.

normal people : soccer people who are missing out on the best sport🏈 : football

​@@EliasFootballDLineAndOLine Uneducated Americans: American Football is the real football. Even if the object uses in our national sport is shaped like an egg! It is not round.

We have some of the greatest beers in the world now...Budwieser aside. Maybe if you stopped giving in to stereotypes and lazy fact finding you might learn about the rest of the world and appreciate what it has to offer. But stay simple if you'd like...

We didn’t name it soccer idiot, watch the video

@@MrMM1007 Sorry, mate but the most popular/best beers are mady in Germany, Belgium, Austria, and some other European countries; the only well-known beers from the US are Budweiser and Cools, both of which are horrible beers to drink

@@jankokol9817 1998 called and it wants its opinion back. Times change - do some research.

@@MrMM1007 Well, sorry that my opinion on beer does not correlate with yours. I have my own views, you have yours, and everyone has their own - and we will have to deal with it

But in others countries they call Football as well. Brasil, Argentina, and the others, except you, from USA. Truth be told football makes more sense instead of soccer. Your football is played with hands, and the "ball" is an egg. So... I have to say, the rest of the world is correct.

@@relaxamentosuave8696 Italy calls it callico, Australia calls it soccer, south Africa, new Zealand. Anywhere where a descendant of rugby football became more popular. Y'all were the ones who also named rugby football. Do you know why? Because it was played on foot, in contrast to polo, which was played on horseback. For gods sake, as early as 1600, English writers called games where kicking the ball was disallowed football. Ffs, just let us be.

You're wrong about Italy. They call football too. In addition, those countries you mentioned haven't got any tradition with the football. But in therms of history, as you said, yeah, perhaps the English called games where kicking the ball was disallowed football, but it doesn't mean that the real football has became what it really is with the name football, not "soccer". So now, we all call football, the sport that is played with the feet and the ball. You, americans, try to make people around the world call football that sport you got tradition (egg + hands). But it won't happen. The only football is the sport with played with feet and ball. By the way, when we mentioned your "football" we say "american football", it's kinda say: only you and those countries you mentioned play it. And it is ok, but you have to admit that the entire world is correct, and the USA and Australia and South Africa named this sport as the way you want to.

@@relaxamentosuave8696 nobody has ever tried to make non Americans call it soccer. And no one has ever tried to make non Americans call our rugby football based game football. American football works, as does gridiron. We're not telling anyone else what to do, y'all are all trying to tell us to change our century's old naming scheme the English gave us rather than yall simply accepting that other people have different dialects than you. Y'know like how adults would.

@@relaxamentosuave8696 Don't you think it is strange that the countries you mentioned, along with the U.S and Canada, are the countries with less football tradition? Especially since they are the oldest British colonies? And India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka are former British colonies that prefer non-football (cricket) too? Isn't it strange that the oldest British colonies (former) DON'T prefer football? Actually there is a logical reason (and it is the same reason Americans & others call it soccer). It has nothing to do with "using feet" or hand-egg, or any of the other made up arguments that football/soccer fans claim. Educate yourself maybe?

Canadians? Australians? What about Calcio

what country?

@@nikocells6442 most likely britain

@@Regularguy2nd nope Britain always called it football barring Irish. The term soccer was made by the elites.The term didn't caught on to common public. They always preferred football.

Where are you from?

Why did u write “my country”, instead of telling your actual country🙄

Did you watch the video? Association Football isn't called Football because you kick the ball with your feet. Association Football is a type of Football, American Football is just their variation of a type of Football.

The word "football" means games played using your feet, not because it's touching a ball with your feet. I swear, 90% of the Europeans here clicked on the video and just commented without watching 10 seconds of the video.

Shhhh...they dont want facts and data. They want to feed their childish rage.

You must hate soccer(football)

@@manchesterunited35-2 "You must hate soccer". Why, because the only two options are blind devotion or hate? What a childish point of view. And no, I don't hate soccer/football at all. I just don't prefer it over other sports. I am an adult in otherwords.

@@MrMM1007 ​ oh ok you seem mad when people call it by its actual name and use common sense but ok

@@manchesterunited35-2 I seem mad when people fall for misinformation because they want to believe they are special and better than someone else because of a game . Its ACTUAL name is Association Football, not football. If you weren't so desperate to be part of something "special", you'd realize you aren't that special and your favorite sport isn't "magical" or "a religion"...it's just a sport.

Same, always called it soccer when i lived there (until I became in love of the game)

Exactly what I said that things can change now as well. It's just the American ego that's not letting them change. They can still call it football instead of soccer and gridiron or American rugby to their sport.

@@mtk3755 Wait, so you're saying we Americans have too much ego to change American football to a different name? The history of this particular sport goes back to 1870. The NFL is the highest revenue generating team sport in the world (in fact, the top 5 Euro leagues don't even match the NFL COMBINED). I didn't even get to the cultural influences of college and local high school football in America.

At first the USA mostly used the name "Football" for example: American Football Association, founded in 1884 and the American League of Professional Football (the first professional association football league in the US, founded in 1894) The use of "soccer" in the US began to appear in late 1910s and early 1920s. Common confusion between the terms American football and association football eventually led to a more domestic widespread use of the term soccer with regard to association football. A noticeable example was the American Soccer League (ASL), which was formed in 1919. The governing body of the sport in the US did not have the word "Soccer" in its name until 1945 when it became the United States Soccer Football Association. It did not remove the word "Football" from its name until 1974, when it became the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) to this day. Meanwhile in the US it was the opposite of what happened in the Philippines they changed the name of this sport from Football to Soccer : American Football Association in 1884 > United States Soccer Football Association in 1945 > United States Soccer Federation in 1974.

@user-ky9vq4is1e really? which poor city you from?

@user-ky9vq4is1e man you're crying your heart out. Don't be too serious on people you talk online.

​@@mikeflames2535yes it is. You don't need to call nfl football because your not playing with yihr feet, your using your hands when running with the ball just like in the real proper sport called rugby , nfl is just another cheap version of rugby with the name football stolen from the game F⚽️⚽️TBALL , where the aim of the game us to use your feet to score 🙄. NFL 🙄

@@mikeflames2535 no get it right 🤡, in football ⚽️ you use your feet majority of the time in that nfl garbage you mainly use your hands just like in the real proper sport called RUGBY. Hahaha you calling me retarded look who's talking. How anyone can be as retarded as you is impossible. It's called being passionate about the sport Football ⚽️ and if you weren't so butt hurt about your stupid nfl rubbish then you wouldn't have replied , but you did so clearly your butt hurt dumbass.

@@mikeflames2535 yeah and you could say the same about you apart from your the definition of a demented retard.

@@mikeflames2535 I have nothing to cry about, unlike yourself. I'm just stating facts that you can't face Football ⚽️ , nfl cheap rip of a real mans sport rugby.

@@mikeflames2535 neither am I jackass. What as a culture got to do with the sport name football ⚽️. You clearly have something to do with a cult otherwise you wouldn't even mention it in the first place 🙄. Come to think of it you probably don't even know the meaning of the word "cult" idiot.

soccer was slang for association football, you are wrong. 😂

@@speeg1326 I think that was their point - that it was soccer in UK (across the pond) first.

@@MrMM1007 True, but it has become a disused term for almost a century. As the foot is used almost all of the time it is known as football. The two sports most akin to grid iron are, rugby union and rugby league, the term football never arises.

yes the English always were ignorant as hell but unlike the amricuhns, they rose above it and started to use their brains

@@B0R0M1R Ironic that you’d say such a thing which, in and of itself, is an ignorant comment. I repeat as I said in other comments to this post, the fact that all the ire is directed toward Americans when Canadians, Australians, South Africans and even Irish use the term soccer, because we all got it from England and all have other games called football, is telling of the absurd anti-Americanism. Stereotyping Americans in this way as though this nation of 300 plus million people is some monolithic society is the epitome of ignorance, bigotry and intolerance.

American football (which is not synonymous with NFL?) is football. Just like Gaelic, Rugby, and Aussie Rules are forms of football. Americans don't say "American" before football because it makes zero sense to be that specific everytime they say it. And they sure the sh!t aren't going to start saying it to please a bunch of ignorant soccer fans who are just arguing for the sake of arguing. The REAL problem is that soccer fans don't know the history of their own game and they insist (falsely) that the term 'football' means 'play with the foot'. It does not mean that, and never has. If you were in old England (say 1700) and stumbled across a football game, chances are that the game would use hands and carry the ball. Because FOOTBALL never meant played with a foot. You are using the "argument" retroactively to support a stupid narrative that never existed.

It is a problem. It looks the same as what you northern americans called africans.

@@AntonioAio Huh? Remember, you being annoyed does not = "a problem".

@@MrMM1007 me, only? 🤔

@@AntonioAio Why is it a problem? I'm wondering what you meant, "It looks the same as what you northern americans called africans."

I agree totally. But people don't really care about the game, they just need an excuse to feed their false narratives. So sad.

Japan's national team is JFA you do the math. But a small portion of people do call it Soccer before qualifying for the world cup.

@@unggading6990 And a popular sports show in the UK is still called "Soccer Saturday", even in 2023. You do the math.

@@MrMM1007 Probably an american producer duhh!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

​@@unggading6990 What? Don't be stupid.

@@MrMM1007 I am not the one who is calling Football soccer. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Egg?🥚

Handegg

rugby's ball

Americans call it football because the ball is a foot long

But then they won't able to have meaningless, ignorant debates!

The American rules of Football were invented in the USA. The entire concept of a game of ball played on your feet existed all over the world before British Football became the most popular.

@@cheekmcbreek1146 lmao no you didn't invent it. Rugby was invented by brits and you adapted it from brits and changed your own version but it still is like rugby. So you didn't invent it

@@cheekmcbreek1146 You dont even play hand egg with a ball, brickhead!

@@mtk3755 Rugby Football was invented by the Rugby School in England. American Football (Gridiron Football) was invented by Harvard at the Harvard/McGill game using the “Boston-style” rules of Football. So yes, the Americans did invent American Football.

It's crazy how one sport can end up leading to so many other variations. Thanks for the insight!

And The town of Rugby, in England, organized the sport officially years before Soccer was organized. So the real beginning of all organized Football games was Rugby.

Hurling is one crazy sport. My Irish brother in law clued me into it. Such a local sport too.

@@supersubsoccer There is NO sport in the WORLD or in any LANGUAGE of the WORLD called "soccer"

@@supersubsoccer The FOOTBALL sport invented in ENGLAND that means BALÓN PIE FOOT PIE BALL BALÓN as its name indicates it is a sport that is played with a BALL and the FEET and is the most popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD long after the idiots of the USA they invented a "sport" that is a cheap copy of rugby and copied the name to the true original and real FOOTBALL, in addition to copying the name to another somewhat illegal sport, they wrongly copied the name because that "sport" that only exists and is consumed in the US is plays with the FOOTBALL HANDS has absolutely nothing, that is, they don't even use to copy names, they even do it wrong and then the shameless US have the audacity to change the name of their real FOOTBALL association only in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call real FOOTBALL "soccer" something that DOESN'T EXIST and only call their fake "sport" "football" insignificant cheap copy of rugby that only ex Is and is consumed in the USA The United States Football Federation was founded on April 5, 1913 under the name of the United States Football Association. A year later, it was incorporated into FIFA in 1914. Until 1974 it was renamed to the current name United States Soccer Federation. In the USA the real FOOTBALL was also called by its name FOOTBALL as in the whole WORLD name that they just changed to their real FOOTBALL association in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call real FOOTBALL "soccer" and so they live in their unreal world falsified and fantasy poor stupid people

Association Football

@@supersubsoccer football

Thank you!

Exactly. Most of the people who hate the word soccer hate it because they are told to hate it...and also because anti-Americanism is fashionable. You'd think these posters would be embarrassed by how little they know about the game they claim to love. But apparently not.

Thank you for this. I think a lot of this has to do with anti-American bias and stereotyping. There is plenty to criticize my nation about. This is not one of them. Also, I just recently got into AFL. I’m looking forward to the start of the season to follow a season all the way through. Any suggestions on a team to support?

@@johnf-americanreacts1287 There is NO sport in the WORLD or in any LANGUAGE of the WORLD called "soccer"

@@johnf-americanreacts1287 The FOOTBALL sport invented in ENGLAND that means BALÓN PIE FOOT PIE BALL BALÓN as its name indicates it is a sport that is played with a BALL and the FEET and is the most popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD long after the idiots of the USA they invented a "sport" that is a cheap copy of rugby and copied the name to the true original and real FOOTBALL, in addition to copying the name to another somewhat illegal sport, they wrongly copied the name because that "sport" that only exists and is consumed in the US is plays with the FOOTBALL HANDS has absolutely nothing, that is, they don't even use to copy names, they even do it wrong and then the shameless US have the audacity to change the name of their real FOOTBALL association only in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call real FOOTBALL "soccer" something that DOESN'T EXIST and only call their fake "sport" "football" insignificant cheap copy of rugby that only ex Is and is consumed in the USA The United States Football Federation was founded on April 5, 1913 under the name of the United States Football Association. A year later, it was incorporated into FIFA in 1914. Until 1974 it was renamed to the current name United States Soccer Federation. In the USA the real FOOTBALL was also called by its name FOOTBALL as in the whole WORLD name that they just changed to their real FOOTBALL association in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call real FOOTBALL "soccer" and so they live in their unreal world falsified and fantasy poor stupid people

@@johnf-americanreacts1287 It is typical of the shamelessly ignorant ridicules of the US to try to change, modify, falsify, adulterate original names because this is what these RIDICULOUS SHAMELESS believe in the US who appropriate names that do not belong to them and thus live in their unreal, falsified and poor fantasy world. stupid people The shameless ridicule of the US even, of the name and demonym that belongs to and was given to our AMERICA CONTINENT, they want to appropriate what stupidity

@@america1832 is this supposed to be a coherent reply? This is just nonsensical.

Really appreciate that! Thanks for watching!

@@supersubsoccer THERE IS NO sport in the WORLD or in any LANGUAGE of the WORLD called "soccer" RIDICULOUS IDIOT

​@@supersubsoccerAMERICA is a CONTINENT made up of 35 countries and more than 1000 million inhabitants poor stupid ignorant people are pitiful

Thanks for watching!

So after this inane rant, you do realize that Americans won't conform to what you say and still will call it soccer, right. The arrogance and ignorance you have is quite remarkable.

Why? Should football be called netball then?

@@Agtsmirnoff netball is already taken

@@beardedsloth7805 Only for women

It still exists

@@beardedsloth7805 but other countries played futbol with hands in the past....before england

You are exactly right. But none of the mouth-breathers on this sight want information or facts. The irony is that most of them will call Americans the ignorant ones. Because they desperately want that narrative.

its just common sense football is the correct label, because you use your foot and kick the ball. americans are just plain stupid, they should change their sport to call it hand ball .

@@littlebigjohn69 When someone says, "its just common sense" what they really mean is, "it makes sense in my head so everyone else should do it like I say". This "rule" that football = kicking the ball isn't even historically accurate. Immature soccer fans made it up because they can't admit the real reason they are mad....anit-Americanism mixed with toxic obsession.

Australians still call breakfast brekkers from what I've heard

They called it soccer into the 1980s ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sSvWYsSTQek.html

Not totally true. The original name was Association Football (one of the many forms of football being played in Britain at the time). Soccer is a shortened version of 'Association'. But the word 'football' has never belonged to just the soccer version. Most of these posters are dumb as rocks.

Well when you put it like that...

Except that football was meant to describe sports played on foot, at a time when most sports were played on horseback😉so you had rugby football🏉and association football⚽️

hahahahahahahhaa

@@lazlothegoat9663 And? The names should have changed long ago, Football doesn’t fit with the American game anymore

@@BendonPC What do you mean "and"? You were wrong and Lazlo showed you that. Most of the posters here are completely full of sh!t and couldn't think themselves out of a paper bag. Stop being ignorant because the rage feels good.

Estaba Usa en la copa mundial? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Japan call it soccer and although they didn't make it far they beat both Germany and Spain

@@nhksam9203 Japan FOOTBALL Association, and, although they use the word 'sakkā' (derived from "soccer"), MANY people also uses the word futtobōru (derived from football). But at the end of the day, you confirmed my point by saying that they didn't make it far.

@@Lucas_Tulic Yes some Japanese people call it futtoboru but most of everyone calls it sakka, its way more common than futtoboru. And even though Japan didn't make it far they played better than both Spain and Germany, two countries that you and I can agree are supposed to be powerhouses. My point is them calling the sport "soccer" does not mean they will be bad. USA's youth teams are in the same level as Argentina.

@@Lucas_Tulic You should also remember that in the 2018 world cup, Argentina also only played 4 matches and lost twice (they were in a easier group as well) USA played 4 matches this world cup and only lost once. USA's performance this world cup is not gonna define their future endeavors.

More precisely, American football stems from modified Rugby union rules (not to be confused with Rugby football or the Rugby Football Union or the Rugby League) and stems more directly from association football. So you basically take "soccer" (after the union of Sheffield and Cambridge rules) and adopt modified rugby rules and keep calling it football.

No it isn't. the name of the sport is LITERALLY Association Football. Association football was codified in the 1860's. The ORIGINAL game of football (which had few rules and differed from town to town) dates back 500 years before that and was NOT association football. Why are so many soccer/futbol fans so stupid about the sport they claim to love?

Are you against all "narcissists who call their sport football ignoring the many other kinds of football", or just the Americans? And all the varieties evolved from the same parent ... they are all the same age.

@@duaneeitzen1025 It's pretty clear he's just against Americans. No one anywhere called American Football "bastard rugby".

Soccer came from Association football, so it's an abbreviation. This is why we don't care about the FA Cup having Football in the name. American football (or the one Europeans call hand egg/ball) is just Rugby football with modified rules. The most common misunderstanding Europeans have with the word "Football" is it means kicking a ball with your feet. It does not. It just means a game played on foot. Last thing, why are Americans being slammed for using the name "Soccer", when there are other countries that use it? Not to mention, England only stopped using the name Soccer simply because it became popular in America, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa, only to be different. Had America not picked up on the name Soccer, England would be using that name *as we speak.*

Bat + ball = cricket?

@@midsterkrabb8504 cricket is of course a fictional game from the Harry Potter series

@@tick999 ???? No its not. Its the 2nd most popular sport in England

@@midsterkrabb8504 the world actually

At the end of the day all I wana watch is womens beach volleyball, Brazil vs Sweden

Google is too much research for these idiots. They 'd rather get all of their 'facts' from random strangers on the internet (but only the facts that support their baseless opinions).

Shhhh. These toxic soccer/football fans do not like facts and history. It interrupts their narrative.

Your game also doesn't use much foot and doesn't make sense. Plus your game ain't even relevant in the world. Stop your agenda. World calls it football and will.

@@MrMM1007 and your narrative is to call it soccer when the world doesn't call it that trying to prove why to call it soccer when no one other than few cater to your argument.Not lowering your ego right? World doesn't revolve around you neither will. Change your attitude.

@@mtk3755 He's not wrong. They never got an aversion to calling it soccer until the NASL days with Pele and Beckenbauer got popular. Cheerleaders, big stadiums on turf, 35 yard PKs to decide games with no draws. It's like they saw the "Americanized" version and started to jeer "soccer". That's some of the truth.

Aussie football rules are indeed older than association football rules, but a bit younger than Cambridge rules football.

And what are you going to do about it?

Thanks

Thank you for the brain damage. Lol. And the original abbreviation for Association Football, assoccer. If it had been left at that NO boy from the US would have dared to pronounce it because I seriously doubt Mother's in the 1800's spent a lot of time worrying about sparing the rod.

By that logic you should thank the Chinese for football and Americans should thank you for baseball

@@supersubsoccer futbol was played in other countries before england

Thank you!

It's called football ffs

And you can change because world doesn't revolve around you

I have a question for you guys aussies, Why when i watch some live stream matches of A-League from Aussie TV, commentators always say "Football". And as far as I know, the Australian FA was formerly called the Australian Soccer Association now it has changed its name to Football Australia, so now its called football or transition from soccer to football, or still called soccer, if its still called soccer why on TV and news websites always refer this sport as football?

@@ordinaryman8199 the only people in Australia that refer to it as "football" over "soccer" are soccer fans. The general public would answer the same as the Americans did. Also what's the name of the Australian team? That will give you the answer.

​@MTK it doesn't revolve around you either. We're not gonna change its name simply because you all call it something different.

Because they have an inferiority complex about the USA since they're the greatest country

Triggered much?

@@LeDardeursPalace its rather you who is getting triggered after hearing the truth.

People are offended by everyone who calls it soccer Yankees, Aussies, canadian..

And the worst part is none of these triggered people have any clue as to the history of the sport they profess to 'love'. They are so ignorant.

Get a job

No, the English named a sport played with the hands football. They have been doing that for over 700 years. Maybe you should read a book instead of getting your "facts" from a random RU-vid video? This video is full of wrong information.

@@MrMM1007 It seems that your whole post is a misinformation. Two examples: If you mean Rugby... it can be played with the foot too. And Rugby was created the same time like Football in England. That was about 200 years ago, not 700! (the knights?) 🤦🏻‍♂️ And the third thing: why are the American "soccer" clubs named FC?

@@strasbourgerelsass1467 Did I mention rugby? No. Did I say rugby is 700 years old? No. I said football has been played for over 700 years and this is an easily verifiable fact. Football, in a form that predates rugby and soccer, has been played for over 700 years old in England. This is not some tightly held secret? Why are American soccer clubs named FC? Because they want to call themselves FC. What does that have to do with the use of the word soccer? You seem to believe there is some law that dictates vocabulary? Again, look up the word SYNONYM. And while you are at it, look up the word "presentism" because that is what you are doing. More importantly...why the f*ck do you care what synonym other people use? (Just kidding, I already know why you care...because someone on the internet told you to care. And now here we are).

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

@@supersubsoccer THERE IS NO sport in the WORLD or in any LANGUAGE of the WORLD called "soccer" RIDICULOUS IDIOT

Football

@@mtk3755 You mean Soccer.

@@mtk3755 it’s soccer

Fair enough😂

And how far did your country go in the World Cup?

@@BranMan10 We were knocked out by the world champions in the quarter finals

@@jasoncallow860 lmao, then stfu. You didn't win the World Cup either. Your country hasn't achieved shit since 1966. And also you have never beaten us in a World Cup in history. Don't forget who invented the word "soccer" by the way 🇬🇧

Brandon Manley We got the Euros final actually. Getting to the final is difficult. Knock out stages are very different from group stages. Besides we are awesome at Cricket :]

Football stupid

Facts

Oh boy, not this discussion again. American in English refers to the United States. "Americano" in Spanish refers to the entire continent. But in English there are two continents not one.

No our game is completely different than both forms of rugby. They already had a set if rules. The problem is that soccer fans have no idea why their game is called football and they keep trying to force their ignorance on us. They should try a new comcept called reading and add in some critical thinking skills. Instead they act like fuckwads.

@@MrMM1007 Foot-ball, you kick a ball with your foot

@@manchesterunited35-2 Foot-ball, you run on your feet while playing the game. The word football predates soccer/futbol by hundreds of years and was used to describe mob football (early forms of various games). Your claim that football = kick with your foot was made up very recently to justify irrational rage at American football and/or the word soccer. Grow up.

That is not why the word "football" exists. Why do ⚽ fans need to lie so much? Why are you all so desperate? it is kind of pathetic.

That’s awesome man. Thank so much for watching!

@@supersubsoccer THERE IS NO sport in the WORLD or in any LANGUAGE of the WORLD called "soccer" RIDICULOUS IDIOT

Happy to help. Thanks for watching!

@@supersubsoccer hey man also explain why Americans didn't call it American rugby ever as rugby football existed back then. And why can't Americans change or adapt now.

Thank you! Much appreciated

@@supersubsoccer FOOTBALL is the biggest popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD The Yankee version of counterfeit rugby only exists and is consumed in the US that cheap copy of rugby that never even made it out of the US is so SHIT, how sad and unfortunate

@@supersubsoccer There is NO sport in the WORLD or in any LANGUAGE of the WORLD called "soccer"

Rugby is a form of football. Soccer is a form of football. American is a form of football. Footy is a form of football. Gaelic is a form of football. Why are you ⚽ fans so f***ing stupid?

Very interesting thoughts. Really appreciate your comment!

Maybe people don't care so much about it. In fact, people call Football various names around the world. Maybe that's weird for people from other places where the influence of the US hasn't stripped practically all of the country's identity with Canada. People know that the name of the sport is Football, the associations call the sport Football and so on. You invented a sport and named it Football even though it is the twin brother of rugby and you call Football Soccer. It's strange, you guys are exotic like India or the countryside of China. Normal people from other countries who are connected by a global culture that Football brings to find outside Football that must have more than 1000 leagues and competitions around the world calling it Football. To see such a big country and that people have access to information calling the sport even today by a slang term.

The most important part of your comment shows how paranoid are us citizens thinking foreigners care about how they call things. We would like you to use the same word for you to get a chance to be a part of the real world, and understand others and not being left alone on the side of the road, that's all. Remember americans represents only 4% of the global population which should led them to understanding how trivial is this position: americans vs the world.

Wow so that's like I'll call America some shit name when the officially accepted name is America that too in let's say American organizations and you think people will not care? Americans even in football organizations and media try to force their soccer term on the world. When you try to force term soccer world will obviously not like because the term football is widely accepted.

That's like I call your version hand egg even in American media and organizations do you thInk and try to force that term? Will Americans cater to that and be accepting that okay let him call whatever he wants to? Will that happen. I think so not.

I thought chinese invented futbol and other countries call it soccer

There is no known link between the games played in China, S. America, and the ones in England. So they all probably invented a game that looked similar but didn't get shared (and football in British history did not always mean a game played with feet, that is a myth spread by futbol fans who are mad that other sports use the word football).

@@MrMM1007 nah I'm sure the brits got the idea from Chinese or meso America. It's just that it developed and evolved and spread more by the brits.

Knowing how much kicking things around is natural in Brasil, moving a ball with your feet is probably one of the earliest human team sports.

I think you should get over yourself. You sound like a child. The American obsession is honestly super sad. Watch your sport and stfu

Well the rest of the world outside of Iberia and Latin America don't call the entire western hemisphere "America". So if you think Americans have to follow the rest of the world in regard to "Football", then surely the Latin Americans have to follow the rest of the world when naming the continents (north and south). Otherwise, you'd be a hypocritical douchebag, right?