Why do americans call it soccer??
you use your feet to play so - Football!!!!!!!
Silly silly people... always taking our words and bending em like a gay in a pink handbag!
Answers:
You said it!
And then they have "World" Series tournaments for Baseball..
Because those of us in the USA and Canada KNOW what Football is. The game you are referring to is called Soccer!
We call it soccer too.
Rugby Football = Rugger
Association Football = Soccer
Most Americans agree that particular sport soccs. That's why.
Peace
Whatever.
Soccer? I barely touched her.
I think it is supposed to be called soccer but I am not sure.
They have their own football as well so it would get confusing. Plus what Americans call football is actually American Football I think there is no game which actually is football just two of them are also refered to as football
cause they already have a game called football.
Cause they are ignorant may be? or they couldnt play soccer before, so they invented theirs, American football and forgetting that it wasnt entirely football as 90% of the time the ball is in hands!
We call it Soccer in NZ or It's probably better known as POOFBALL
Come on get with the times rugby's more manly and so so much better!
Well if you really want to know, it's not an American term, it's British
"Soccer is an abbreviation for Association Football. The Football Association was formed in London in October 1863 when representatives of eleven clubs and schools met in an attempt to standardize the rules of the game. One of the rules prohibited the carrying of the ball, a rule that would lead to the Rugby-oriented clubs leaving the Association several months later. The name Association Football was coined to distinguish it from Rugby.
By 1889, the abbreviation socca' was in use, and the spelling soccer had made its appearance by 1895."
Though I personally think football makes sense, but oh well.
It's soccer over here too. So why do we call it soccer?
Technically the game is played with hands, feet and head.
The word soccer comes from England, it was an abbreviation of Association football. So Americans call it that because.that's what the English used to call it!
There's an interestin alternate explanation here :
http://www.gavinrymill.com/origin-of-the.
Because we already have football. What do you call our sport of football in your country?
First of all save your gay bashing..(how original and creative!)..for your own few friends to get amused at.a gay in a pink hand bag, what does that even mean? it makes no sense.. idiot...and second of all..we are American we do whatever the f*ck we want
I have to agreed with YID ARMY. American football is not football for two reasons. 1 real football you play with your feet and american football only one person kicks the the object . 2 that's not a ball because it's not round.
isn't it soccer and American football, 2 different games. I don't know, why do they call candy floss cotton candy, a tap a faucet, flat an apartment, pavement a side walk, nappy a diaper and the list goes on
Cause they always gotta be different!
Because they are ignorant to what the rest of the world does and think anything that exists outside their country is not relevant.
Hey chocolahoma. your 'Bubbas' have to have a rest after every effin play and the game has to go for like 5 hours because they can't handle the pace. Pads to protect everything, 300 pounds of FAT not muscle and a little rest after they run 10 yards. LMAO brains get hurt, bones broken, try put them up against Rugby players with no padding & make them run for 90minutes without a break. bumpunchers.
To distinguish from American Football. But they also call it soccer in South Africa and they are getting the World Cup in 2010 (maybe). In the South African case it is just pur ignorance so they have no excuse and currently they are promoting the 2010 Soccer World Cup. Ignorant twats they cant even play football and the Country is like a toilet.
Unless you punt the ball with lips the starting point of football starts with your foot. In North America we have BOTH soccer and football.how lucky is that.
It is called soccer in New Zealand and Australia too. we call it soccor because that is what it is called. Simple.
Probably because they knew they socked at it.
They need to be protected and made to feel big, and hence 'American Football' which is played mainly with the hands, where the players wear huge armour, and it is perfectly legal to tackle without the ball.
We have a game called football. Its played by Men weighing 300 pounds and named "Bubba".
These men line up and it each other. Hard. Bones get broken, Brains get concussed. Beer commercials get watched.
We've played Football since before we ever heard of your silly little running around game. Its our number one most followed sport, and we will never care that much about your little variant on kickball.
Please don't knock the yanks m8, they are the only true buddies we have, ok there are a few loud mouthed ones but u get that World wide. I am disabled, and every American I have spoken to on the net have all been very polite, respectful and very sympathetic approach to me as I have many disabilities, unlike a Brit who told me that as I was disabled with Brain haemorrhage, 16 mini strokes renal failure and many more, that I should juust cdurl up and die. I am not saying that all Brits are the same, because there are lots of very good and helpful ones out there.
Regarding you on about the yanks saying soccer, well what about us guys?, in Scotland we say stand on that, in England you say tread on that, there are loads of different words same thing all over UK, what about Cockney rhyming slang? it goes on and on, so please leave our friends in piece, they aint doing nothin wrong..
HAHAHA!
America calls it soccer because of the guy above, Why? must we argue such petty things.
Also American football in its early history was similar to soccer. A combination kicking, and running with a round ball. Over time it developed to what we have today. An aggressive sport that is enjoyable to watch. So, if you study alittle history you will see the following:
Field style game using a ball was created around 1800's(somewhat modern version) in England from this game developed:
Soccer(futibol, football, Fotbal)
American Football
Aussie rules Football
Rugby
And some forms of the Gallic games which are combinations of usually: Rugby and Soccer
So, just maybe before you rant about American "soccer" you may want to read alittle about the sport of "football".
Thanks
u see they already inappropriately named a sports as football.
i dont know why? most of the time they hug or carry the ball around, banging each other, trying to bring the guy down, and i think the kicking part comes near the goal post or a penalty near it i think
but i think it should be named somethin as hugball, handball, basbball
now american is added to the word football to differentiate it from real football recognized all over the world. so it is derived from football and the father of american football is football itself :-)
now american consider football to be american football. infact they actually called them football..so for the american to differentiate from the real football, they called it as soccer
even if the name they chosed for their sport doesnt seem right, the name is already too familiar with the masses for it to be changed anyway.
The problem lie with the person who first coin the term doesnt have a good idea of the bigger picture
Congratulations dumbazz! You are 400,000th person to ask this question! Now, you will have to come to America to accept your award from all the people you just insulted unless your too busy playing your sissy game of soccer!
I love soccer! it helps the uneducated sport fan differentiate between footy "union" or "league" without football "soccer" entering the equation..Between us, soccer is gay! (unless you're Australian and hold any hope of coming anywhere in the greater scheme of the sport!)
Using "gay" before the time homosexuals cornered the market!
Because the game was invented by kicking around a pair of socks rolled up into a ball.
I don't even know why they call it "American Football"! I mean, they use their freakin hands! It should be called handball or something! Football is our game and Americans shouldn't be calling it soccer
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Silly silly people... always taking our words and bending em like a gay in a pink handbag!
Answers:
You said it!
And then they have "World" Series tournaments for Baseball..
Because those of us in the USA and Canada KNOW what Football is. The game you are referring to is called Soccer!
We call it soccer too.
Rugby Football = Rugger
Association Football = Soccer
Most Americans agree that particular sport soccs. That's why.
Peace
Whatever.
Soccer? I barely touched her.
I think it is supposed to be called soccer but I am not sure.
They have their own football as well so it would get confusing. Plus what Americans call football is actually American Football I think there is no game which actually is football just two of them are also refered to as football
cause they already have a game called football.
Cause they are ignorant may be? or they couldnt play soccer before, so they invented theirs, American football and forgetting that it wasnt entirely football as 90% of the time the ball is in hands!
We call it Soccer in NZ or It's probably better known as POOFBALL
Come on get with the times rugby's more manly and so so much better!
Well if you really want to know, it's not an American term, it's British
"Soccer is an abbreviation for Association Football. The Football Association was formed in London in October 1863 when representatives of eleven clubs and schools met in an attempt to standardize the rules of the game. One of the rules prohibited the carrying of the ball, a rule that would lead to the Rugby-oriented clubs leaving the Association several months later. The name Association Football was coined to distinguish it from Rugby.
By 1889, the abbreviation socca' was in use, and the spelling soccer had made its appearance by 1895."
Though I personally think football makes sense, but oh well.
It's soccer over here too. So why do we call it soccer?
Technically the game is played with hands, feet and head.
The word soccer comes from England, it was an abbreviation of Association football. So Americans call it that because.that's what the English used to call it!
There's an interestin alternate explanation here :
http://www.gavinrymill.com/origin-of-the.
Because we already have football. What do you call our sport of football in your country?
First of all save your gay bashing..(how original and creative!)..for your own few friends to get amused at.a gay in a pink hand bag, what does that even mean? it makes no sense.. idiot...and second of all..we are American we do whatever the f*ck we want
I have to agreed with YID ARMY. American football is not football for two reasons. 1 real football you play with your feet and american football only one person kicks the the object . 2 that's not a ball because it's not round.
isn't it soccer and American football, 2 different games. I don't know, why do they call candy floss cotton candy, a tap a faucet, flat an apartment, pavement a side walk, nappy a diaper and the list goes on
Cause they always gotta be different!
Because they are ignorant to what the rest of the world does and think anything that exists outside their country is not relevant.
Hey chocolahoma. your 'Bubbas' have to have a rest after every effin play and the game has to go for like 5 hours because they can't handle the pace. Pads to protect everything, 300 pounds of FAT not muscle and a little rest after they run 10 yards. LMAO brains get hurt, bones broken, try put them up against Rugby players with no padding & make them run for 90minutes without a break. bumpunchers.
To distinguish from American Football. But they also call it soccer in South Africa and they are getting the World Cup in 2010 (maybe). In the South African case it is just pur ignorance so they have no excuse and currently they are promoting the 2010 Soccer World Cup. Ignorant twats they cant even play football and the Country is like a toilet.
Unless you punt the ball with lips the starting point of football starts with your foot. In North America we have BOTH soccer and football.how lucky is that.
It is called soccer in New Zealand and Australia too. we call it soccor because that is what it is called. Simple.
Probably because they knew they socked at it.
They need to be protected and made to feel big, and hence 'American Football' which is played mainly with the hands, where the players wear huge armour, and it is perfectly legal to tackle without the ball.
We have a game called football. Its played by Men weighing 300 pounds and named "Bubba".
These men line up and it each other. Hard. Bones get broken, Brains get concussed. Beer commercials get watched.
We've played Football since before we ever heard of your silly little running around game. Its our number one most followed sport, and we will never care that much about your little variant on kickball.
Please don't knock the yanks m8, they are the only true buddies we have, ok there are a few loud mouthed ones but u get that World wide. I am disabled, and every American I have spoken to on the net have all been very polite, respectful and very sympathetic approach to me as I have many disabilities, unlike a Brit who told me that as I was disabled with Brain haemorrhage, 16 mini strokes renal failure and many more, that I should juust cdurl up and die. I am not saying that all Brits are the same, because there are lots of very good and helpful ones out there.
Regarding you on about the yanks saying soccer, well what about us guys?, in Scotland we say stand on that, in England you say tread on that, there are loads of different words same thing all over UK, what about Cockney rhyming slang? it goes on and on, so please leave our friends in piece, they aint doing nothin wrong..
HAHAHA!
America calls it soccer because of the guy above, Why? must we argue such petty things.
Also American football in its early history was similar to soccer. A combination kicking, and running with a round ball. Over time it developed to what we have today. An aggressive sport that is enjoyable to watch. So, if you study alittle history you will see the following:
Field style game using a ball was created around 1800's(somewhat modern version) in England from this game developed:
Soccer(futibol, football, Fotbal)
American Football
Aussie rules Football
Rugby
And some forms of the Gallic games which are combinations of usually: Rugby and Soccer
So, just maybe before you rant about American "soccer" you may want to read alittle about the sport of "football".
Thanks
u see they already inappropriately named a sports as football.
i dont know why? most of the time they hug or carry the ball around, banging each other, trying to bring the guy down, and i think the kicking part comes near the goal post or a penalty near it i think
but i think it should be named somethin as hugball, handball, basbball
now american is added to the word football to differentiate it from real football recognized all over the world. so it is derived from football and the father of american football is football itself :-)
now american consider football to be american football. infact they actually called them football..so for the american to differentiate from the real football, they called it as soccer
even if the name they chosed for their sport doesnt seem right, the name is already too familiar with the masses for it to be changed anyway.
The problem lie with the person who first coin the term doesnt have a good idea of the bigger picture
Congratulations dumbazz! You are 400,000th person to ask this question! Now, you will have to come to America to accept your award from all the people you just insulted unless your too busy playing your sissy game of soccer!
I love soccer! it helps the uneducated sport fan differentiate between footy "union" or "league" without football "soccer" entering the equation..Between us, soccer is gay! (unless you're Australian and hold any hope of coming anywhere in the greater scheme of the sport!)
Using "gay" before the time homosexuals cornered the market!
Because the game was invented by kicking around a pair of socks rolled up into a ball.
I don't even know why they call it "American Football"! I mean, they use their freakin hands! It should be called handball or something! Football is our game and Americans shouldn't be calling it soccer
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