There are actually many types of football, association football (soccer), Rugby football, American football, Canadian football (the last two are types of gridiron football and also take rules from both association and rugby football), Australian football, and Gaelic football. In the UK, US, Ireland, New Zealand, and Canada the term football can all mean a different sport, generally the most popular version in each country and all of these countries besides the UK generally use soccer when referring to association football. So saying soccer is not just an American thing. The term soccer is even of British origin (which I personally find hilarious considering how many British people I have seen say they hate the term soccer) though it never went as far as becoming the official name and was only a nickname that stopped being used during the 20th century, so don’t say I am wrong because no British person says it today because it was invented in the late 1800s and fell out of favor, the word is still of British origin. Saying football is actually incredibly vague and refers to at least 5 different sports and soccer is actually more specific because when you say soccer you are only referring to association football.
Us hispanics we call it "Futbol". And fun fact "Futbol" is actually the first ever name of the sport untill ppl started calling it "football" then "soccer".
Football is actually incredibly vague. In the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the US, and Ireland football can mean all different sports hence why only one of them uses football when referring to association football and the others use soccer (which the term was actually created by the one the doesn’t use it) and soccer always refers to association football.
I remember how in elementary school I learned that "футбол"🇷🇺 in English is "football". Then, when I was a middle schooler, I found out it was actually "soccer". By myself. Then my friend told me that we were learning the UK English. Not the USA one. (I still call soccer football, because it's similar in pronunciation with my first language, don't come at me.) P.S.: in my language, we call football "American football". I felt uneasy typing this😬
Soccer has been used in U.K., but it is deprecated. It is short for “Association Football”, which is the full name of the 11 man code, in particular...
England called it soccer for a bit, then they took it to America and then they changed it back to football, meanwhile Americans had already decided to call their version of rugby 'football'
they were who named it soccer before America so they were the first ones to call it soccer instead of football they stop saying it because they said it sounded to American even do the came up with the name
We all know America was going through their hipster phase where they took things that were already well establish sports, tweaked them slightly and renamed them as if they came up with them. Embarrassing.
Actually, the term soccer is of British origin in the late 1800s, and spread to Canada (and Canadian French), Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland who all still use it along with the US. And when the term soccer started being used is when American football was invented and came popular in the United States, and there is also Australian football, Gaelic football, a Canadian football (which is a gridiron football like American football), and football in New Zealand refers to rugby (rugby football). Basically all these are different types of football and in all of these countries football just refers to the most popular type in each country
Hey We got a new sport in Europe where you are 7v7 and throw the balls with your hand Most country’s named it Handball so we just call ist Handball America: wait, we have Handball too Yo play 1v1 against a wall with a tennis Ball What do you want to call it then? Idk. We don’t care Ok, then call it European Handball Na mate, let’s call it Field Handball Uk: yeah, but there is also a type of handball where you play on fields outside which we call Field handball Ok, then we don’t care: *Handball gets an Olympic Dicipline* USA: OLYMPIC HANDBALL!!!!
