The word "Soccer" was invented by ENGLAND!

Back in the 1800s, it was called ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL. England had Rugby Football and Association Football. To differentiate between the two, they started calling it Association Football.... then we have newspapers of England calling it "Assoc Football", which was then shortened to "Assoc games" , then to "Assoc" and then finally "Soccer" .... it was a popular slang, back in those days, at Oxford and other influential English institutions, to add an "-er" at the end of words, like Rugby into Rugger..... "foot-er", etc...

When the sport was exported to the former colonies, like the USA, Australia, etc... it was called SOCCER! England themselves called it SOCCER at the time! Soccer meant Association Football, so you knew it apart from Rugby Football.


Since then, the word soccer fell out of use, and it was replaced by Football.


However, Americans, Australians, etc.. kept using the original word that ENGLAND INVENTED FOR THEIR OWN GAME!



So Americans are actually right. We are not renaming your sport. We're simply still calling it what you originally called it.

This summarizes it. It's called football now.

I don't care what you call it, it's boring as fuk to watch

Glad you got this off your chest, opie.

Must of been some burden

it's alright, your sister is coming over later to pamper me. ill be okay, you taught her well.

American Football should be called Gridiron.

In the 1890's the British Government decided to pass legislation to enforce use of the term 'Football', to be able to more easily identify the gheys who would persist in calling it 'Soccer.', and we have been lolling for the past 100 years. You have merely fallen into our trap.

The rest of the world calls it football bro….

American football is handegg sumowrestling.

the point is, there's a lot of stupid anti-americanism because we call it soccer.

Soccer was the original name for it, a word invented by England themselves, and we're simply still using it.

No need to fight or hate over it

it's called voetbal over here, now what you gonna do OP?

And futbol in Spanish, fussbal in German. It's almost like the entire world calls it football and one country is being weird about it because they have a different sport where they have an oval shaped "ball" they throw and catch and somehow they ended up calling that football. If they didn't have their own "football" I'm sure they wouldn't be weird about it.

blame England


now it's too late to change.

Makes sense for them to-since football to Americans is always going to mean NFL & In Australia it will always be Aussie Rules. Why I always use Soccer on here to avoid confusion.

Should be called Timeout.

you understood perfectly

its too late for USA to change it now, because we started our own american football and now we call that football



its really dumb for europeans to hate on americans when we use the word soccer, its not trying to be ameri-centric, its just the history of it from England, and its too late now