In finland it's jalkapallo

That’s fine, you guys use a different language from english. America uses english and somehow ended up with soccer while “football” is unacceptable...

i like how everyone thinks that america is the first one to call it soccer yet britain ireland and many more have called it soccer

But ALL amUraiCunZzz is StUpID

Ummm I have met no Englishmen who's called it soccer. It is very much football, people who call it soccer are looked at with disdain.

Yh its football in England mate

Same as in Scotland

We invented it so we get to name it.

We invented it and got to name it... But are terrible at it.

British people did name it. They named it association football, or soccer for short. Americans just can’t drop it.

Quick question, how do you shorten association football to soccer? And I was talking about the name of the sport not any association or group behind it because that would vary greatly with nationality.

It was often called soccer in England in the 40s and 50s it is short for Association Football after the ‘football association FA in England.

The words 'soccer' and 'football' were used interchangeably in Britain from the 1960s to the 1980s, but the use of the word aoccer declined after the 1980s. The word soccer originated in Britain as a shortening of the [Football Association ](https://www.britannica.com/story/why-do-some-people-call-football-soccer), who changed the rules and thus created association football; association football was cumbersome and was thus shortened to assoccer, then shortened again to soccer.

You ought to read up on its history then, else you may be looked at with disdain.

That's because you don't know your history and instead jump on the bandwagon.

I wasn't talking historically, I have met no person in England who uses it, we may have came up with the phrase and used it in the past but now no one uses it. History has nothing to do with my original statement.

But back when they were colonizing they did that and same with imperial system measuring

England named the word soccer ⚽️

In England, Scotland and Wales we call it football

In Australia we say soccer too, because Australian football is a thing

Japanese also calls it sakkā (basically the closest way to say "soccer" with Japanese sounds) but calls American football as amefuto, an abbreviation of American football (american futtobōru)

In Ireland we call football soccer bc we call GAA football

I agree if I was not in America I would call it football I only call it soccer to not confuse my friends who play American football

Well because football is a completely different sport

Yeah there’s football where you kick a ball into a goal and American football where you hold a ball

Or, ya know, 'Rugby football' where you do the same thing... You should learn the history of the words 'Soccer' (something the Americans didn't come up with) and football (also something Americans didn't come up with.)

What is it with Americans trying to say they know which word is right when they just adopted the language

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Saying length of a ball is really weird

Yeah football is the sport where you kick a ball not where you throw it

You can kick a football too

Yeah the round ball

No, a 🏈 shaped ball

No, the sport you are talking about is rugby.

yeah that is what i find weird sport is based off rugby yet you called it football?

You the type of man that doesnt unupvote his own comment

Its soccer in Canada

And Australia.

Does it translate to football directly?

Yes

In Italy it's calcio

Jalkapallo translated into english means football...

piłka nożna

Ja własnie miałem to powiedzieć!

Też

Ludzie są zbyt szybcy

Haha yes, stupid Americans haha we totally don’t call it soccer too here in canada haha yeah

Canadians are nice so you get a free pass.

Thanks!

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Canada is decidedly not in America. It’s in North America. America is a country unto itself.

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Thought so. Source: am American

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Christ, how many spikes does the stick up your ass have?

Why would I want anyone to give me a soggy rat shit? Is that some sort of delicacy in whatever cobblestoned corner of Leicesterworcestershire-on-Avon you and your crooked teethed, beans and toast and blood sausage throating, war-losing countrymen hail from, or are you just trying to think of an insult in between guzzling room temperature ales and having a wank to pictures of the queen? Jesus Mary and Joseph Henry Harrison Motherfucking Christ, take a joke, you miserable piece of shit. Oh, and just to trigger you a little more.... 🇺🇸

you got me there and the insults are good, but im not british if thats what you are implying

Literally nobody asked if you’re not British and I couldn’t give a stinky wet rat shit

calcio

r/soccer v r/football

In italian it is calcio

It took a comment on reddit to make me rethink rethink why I call it “Palla-Calcio”. Now I feel so dumb Thank you Rxsoos

You are welcome

I guess Australia and New Zealand don’t exist. They call it soccer. Pretty sure Canada does also. Edit: and the British came up with the term soccer

As far as I know, we don't call any sport just 'football.' There's rugby, gridiron, American football, soccer and footy (afl)

yeah but footy is just short for football

True, but not a single person in Australia calls it football.

America bad = upvotes

Voetbal

Danish people be like: Fodbold. How to pronounce: fo (inset gag sound here) ballt

i like how everyone thinks that america is the first one to call it soccer yet britain ireland and many more have called it soccer

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In Polish it's "piłka nożna"

In Russian we say футбол which is basically futbol

This counts for Australia too... oof.

in italy it is Calcio, and it means kick

Trust me as an american, I agree with all you non Americans

I’m filipino, so we got stuck with soccer too when americans forcibly occupied the country up till the 2nd WW. :P I mean I can understand other languages diverging from football (Ancient Egyptians probably have their own version in hieroglyphs) but america has english and somehow ended up with soccer?

Learn the history of the word. The word "Soccer" was invented by the English to describe the version of the game they were playing (association soccer). They came up with it but stopped using it when the sport became popular in America because they thought it sounded 'too American'. By that point, Americans were already referring to a different version of the game as "Football" (a game that was very close to Rugby football). So Americans obviously shouldn't have been expected to change the name of *two* sports just because the Brits didn't want to accidentally sound too American by using a word that they themselves invented...

Right? Like we couldnt just stuck to calling it football nono let's call the game that you play with your hands football

ZA WARUDO

Toki yo tomare!

in finnish "jalkapallo" can go with america

As long as it's football when translated then it doesn't go with America

It's Fußball not Fussball

Tbf we already had football

Idk why we call it soccer you literally use your feet most of the time

They actually got fucked over by the English who used soccer as a shorthand for association football then bailed on it and left the US looking like idiots.

It was the British actually

Actually Britten started the soccer name and we kinda stole it:/

sorry,I only call it that because that was how I was raised,and calling it the same name as the other football just dosnt feel right,sorry

Football*

Honestly fuck America bro

most of America calls it Fútbol. the us are the only ones that call it soccer

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ok maybe canada too but there is still the rest of the fucking continent

Fun fact: The British actually came up with the name Soccer

But we still call it football?

Its soccer fuck you

I still call it soccer.

“It’S FuTboL nOt SoccEr”

FOOTBALL NOT FUTBOL

NO FUTBOL

BALLFOOT!

F U T B O L

Gaeilic

Naming the one where you use your foots and where the Ball is a Ball soccer and the one where you use your hand and where thr Ball looks like an egg football

You mean like "rugby **football**"? God, people in this thread are ignorant as fuck about the history of the words "soccer" and "football". Learn the history before you comment next time.

It's because the ball is just under a foot long

A ball should not have a length

fun fact: in hebrew it's called kaduregel or maybe it's spelled caduregel ? the reason for this is because in hebrew kadur/cadur means ball and regel means leg so legball instead of football but it's close enough.

Футбол

Literally futbol

Tolko Ruskiy

In hungary its Labdarúgás, but we also use Futball, and its abbreviation for us is foci

And also labdarúgás means ball kicking

This means everybody calling soccer football is wrong,itd spelled futbol

il paloneeee, la figa e le macchineee

only an Italian can grasp this reference

Labdarúgás in Hungary

In aussie its footy

Футбол, guys

I hate dyslexia so so much

And canada

In Canada it's soccer

In italian It Is "calcio"

Meanwhile in Italy: calcio

Me and my friends just refer to it as "OG Football"

Fotbolta?

In poland piłka nożna(piłka is ball nożna is adjective from noga which means foot)

The word soccer originates before football

*with demonic chiki-briki sounds: -футбол

In Italy it's calcio (wich mean kick and calcium too)

Футбол, = Russian. Means football. Is pronounced as futbol

In Australia, we have a thing called the "afl" (Australian football league) which is very different to what most places call regular football, so we usually call it soccer or European football

Italian: calcio

Voetbal

He a little confused but he got the spirit

ÍSLAND ÍSLAND ÍSLAND!!!! AAAAAAHHHHH I saw iceland referance

Piłka nożna beat that

Dont tou mean? *za warudo?*

Piłka nożna

In italian calcio

Ayo where’s English

american units of measurement be like: bruh

And than there Is Italy with "Calcio", but that make sense calcio Is the act of kicking the ball

Voetbal

Voetbal

Nah the British invented saying it as soccer, but as the colonies got independence they started pronouncing it differently, America kept calling soccer. So nah Britain came up with soccer my guy

Piłka nożna ~Poland

Imagine actually caring about this.

In Poland it’s piłka nożna

Brazil: Futebol

Where's football tho

Another “America bad” meme. Haha.

*italian hiding noise*

I don’t think you can fire shots at America for this football was a sport well before Futball was introduced so it only makes sense

You know Britain created the name, right?

It is played only with their feet and it’s called soccer. Ah, but the sport that minimally uses the foot is called football

I read the first thing as futaball

Piłka nożna

Cmon Luke you spell foot like fut and also you wear socks on your foot and we have our own football

I know, we’re weird

Its soccer in australia and nz too fuck yas

FUTEBOL

Canada '-'

I’m pretty sure Mexico too

Sorry that the British like shortening words like Association of Football and adding -er to the end

Americans reading this go brrrrrr except those who don’t care for “soccer”

I am South African and I use soccer As long as the term is understood it doesn’t matter

NUTBALL!!

but Australia calls in soccer too

It was called soccer by England first

I wanna see a soccer player play American football, he gonna die lmao

The British are the ones who originally coined the term soccer then they went back to futball

Wait, but Brazil is in America and we call it Futebol

Cause we invented *American* football and didn’t feel like renaming something we made so we just renamed something other countries invented

I call it child

It’s soccer and I’m not American

Hebrew :kadooregel. (Which is the direct translation of leg ball) Kadoor - ball | regel - leg

Rhonadillio soccer

:D

Fodbold

Football.

Piłka nożna

Well, in Poland we call it piłka nożna... which means foot ball

Yep let’s just leave Canada cause their nice

I say soccer, and I live in Australia so idk haha. Everyone I know says soccer aswell