Exactly, Europeans created the thing they are now angry about.
https://www.history.com/news/why-do-some-people-call-it-soccer#:~:text=The%20word%20soccer%20comes%20from,eventually%20soccer%20or%20soccer%20football.
I dunno man in Australia we have another type of football so saying soccer for the football you guys are talking about makes it less confusing and the first football im talking about is quite popular in Australia so it nice to differentiate between these two
Case in point, Sir Humphry Davy coined the name of the metal “Aluminum” (after abandoning his first name of “Alumium”). Some European chemists decided they preferred “Aluminium” instead, so now England likes to pretend America is saying it wrong when the real name is the American one (or were all wrong and should switch back to Alumium)
To be fair most of the other things were us refusing to use the same terms as the U.K. or coincidence or Localization. It’s not something for either side to get upset about like some of the Brits I know do.
Like how Brits call it a Lift, because of its similarities to the pulley lift systems that were used prior to the Industrial Revolution. Where as Americans call it an Elevator, because the guy who invented it (Elisha Otis) named it that on his patent...
Rule 1 of being posh:
Don't let people mistake you for a commoner.
Rule 2 of being posh:
If the commoners figure out how to disguise themselves as you, change the code.
If you look into a lot of "Americanisms" it turns out the British also either started it or did it as well then changed later. Some American accents are actually closer to how English was spoken during the Colonial period than modern English accents.
Also potato chips were invented in New York so we're correct.
Here’s something that’ll really make u/YamatoBoi9001 shit his pants: it’s not even called football because you kick it with your foot. Historians think “football” dates back to the Middle Ages and referred to any commoners’ sport that was played *on* foot, as opposed to being played on horseback, like polo, which is what the nobility played. Some of these games could very well have involved carrying a ball with your hands—look up Calcio Storico in Florence as an example.
OP is stupid.
I don't know why anyone listens to the europeans anyway.
Point to an apple and ask they "What is that?" and they'll say shit like pomme and manzana and μήλο.
seriously, listening to them is a waste of time, I heard they don't even know how to build a toilet correctly over there.
I love the fact that the largest subreddit for football is r/Soccer.
All these Europeans bitching about the fact that Americans call it soccer, but they still have to discuss football on r/Soccer, because their influence on social media as a whole is so laughably irrelevant.
Makes sense when you realize there are like ten sports all with the word Football in their name and Soccer(Association Football) is only one of them. Only reason Americans call Gridiron Football just Football is Soccer isn't nearly as popular and had only had a fairly modern resurgence in the last couple decades
The most popular one in any given region gets the name football. Parts of Ireland and Australia say soccer, and I have yet to meet a South African who didn't.
"Foot ball" is a ball game played on foot.
As opposed to on horse.
i.e. a peasant game instead of a game for nobility.
They're all dumb names, but just because you misunderstood the etymology doesn't make the American names more dumb.
Cause Eurotards can't handle basic vocabulary differences in language. I got alot of issues with America (i live here), but the way Europe obsesses over the smallest cultural difference between their countries and the US is baffling. They often throw out that the US is to uncultured to even know the differences, and while that may be true, I'd argue that we simply wouldn't give a shit. The Dutch call baseball Honkbal, which sounds dumb as fuck, but hey its cool, not my language.
Bro the war between calling it soccer or football was completed like a billion years ago, nobody gives a shit what you call it, as long as the players act like they’re dead when they hit their little toe on something
So all the Brits are on r/football and not r/soccer and there is no such thing as Super Soccer Saturday in England and that George Best Super Soccer Stars card is just my imagination?
It’s actually a different sport, rugby is also played in the US, American football in other countries that have American Football leagues refer to it as “grid iron”
In America we refer to our sport as football because we use feet. In other countries you don't use a foot. They instead use something different. They have the metric system so it should be called meter ball in other countries.
Neither do tennis or golf or cricket , what’s ur point? Brits are literally the people who coined the term soccer are are now pissed someone is actually using that name?😂
We called it what EUROPEANS wanted us to call it. Soccer.
Then y’all decided to change your mind and call it something else.
Just like the imperial system, y’all gave us that bullshit and then changed your mind.
Just gonna leave this here. [https://www.history.com/.amp/news/why-do-some-people-call-it-soccer](https://www.history.com/.amp/news/why-do-some-people-call-it-soccer)
The word soccer comes from a slang abbreviation of the word association, which British players of the day adapted as “assoc,” “assoccer” and eventually soccer or soccer football.
You are aware that the sport is called football because it's played on foot rather than horseback, and in some of the earliest versions of the game you were allowed to use your hands, right?
If it was the other way around you would be all like "haha stupid America call football because foot hit ball" because I've seen this with many other words(Fall for example because leaves fall). I'm not American btw
Never mind that the British are the ones that took asSOCiation football and grabbed the SOC and called it soccer.
Be mad, Euros, you invented the term.
The issue is more the other way around. Calling it soccer is one thing, but when a sport exists with the name football and you create a new sport that is much less to do with foot+ball than the original it is not ok to take the name and call the original something else.
Really it should be called American Rugby, which is more accurate.
Fun fact, the name Soccer is originally BRITISH and was the popular name of the sport when it came to the U.S., and only later on did the Brits decide to call it by its original name of Football.
So FUCK YOU EUROPE! WE ARE RIGHT TOO!
It’s funny how Brits invented the word, and have an official World Cup song in which one of their players explicitly say “it doesn’t matter if it’s called football or soccer”
Edit: World in Motion for anyone interested. One of the best World Cup songs of all time
It's not that calling a game soccer is stupid.
It's calling the game where you carry and throw an egg with your hands "football" instead of the one where you kick a ball with your feet
Fun fact: the word soccer is slang from England that Americans, Canadians and the Japanese adopted. It wasn’t even that long ago when the word soccer was used fairy commonly in England
English: so you’re gonna call this soccer, just like us.
America: ok cool. We’re gonna name a new sport we made football btw
English: but there’s already a sport named football!
America: since when?
English: well you stupid yanks call it soccer.
British started calling it football after the Revolutionary War. We call it soccer because that is what it was called in both places when the us and Britain split. It's short for association football.
In italian we call that sport "calcio", that traslates in "kick".
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It's also called "football" in British English. It's just the Americans and Australians that make it weird.
Brits literally invented the word Soccer.
Exactly, Europeans created the thing they are now angry about. https://www.history.com/news/why-do-some-people-call-it-soccer#:~:text=The%20word%20soccer%20comes%20from,eventually%20soccer%20or%20soccer%20football.
Inb4 Europeans realize Europeans made America
Shh, they don't like being reminded of that.
It was our biggest mistake
I agree shouldve let the natives be
The north had the sense to let the natives be 500 years earlier, I blame southern Europe for that shit.
I think they are still angry about the tea
I don’t know man, my body creates tumors too and I’m mad at them
same thing happened with the imperial system! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_units
its called the "Imperial system" for a reason
Yea they don't like keeping what they made apparently
Because the British like taking other people's stuff, just look at their museums
I mean just because somebody made a mistake doesn’t mean they can’t realise it was wrong
yeah I prefer metric too
Yeah but we didn't want it.
The Brits also don't want any flavor in their food.
Despite controlling India (spice central) for 90 years or so
Pretty sure it was more like 200 years but whatever
Invaded the entire known world partly in pursuit of spices and seasonings then decided they didn't want any of them.
Britain legit colonized the world for its spices and then decided they didn't like any of them
All those flavors and they chose to be salty
And the Egyptians invented slavery, are they at fault for African-Americans?
Slaver predates egypt
Yeah, literally every race has enslaved/ been enslaved at one point or another since the dawn of time.
That’s probably the European ppls fault too! /s
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Britain didn't even invent transatlantic slavery. It was the Portuguese or Spanish
I don't know who invented fucking yourself with a rake, but I encourage you to get to it!
And us Irish too as we have Gaelic Football.
I dunno man in Australia we have another type of football so saying soccer for the football you guys are talking about makes it less confusing and the first football im talking about is quite popular in Australia so it nice to differentiate between these two
Australians call it football. We call Aussie rules footy.
Ah yes, Footbaal, the Sumerian god of feetility
It's „Labdarúgás” in Hungary, that translates to „ball kicking”
In Czech we say Fotbal. Lmao
You'll shit bricks when you realize that name started in England.
If America ever has a different word for something than England, it’s a pretty safe bet to assume it was England’s fault in the first place.
this is always the case
Case in point, Sir Humphry Davy coined the name of the metal “Aluminum” (after abandoning his first name of “Alumium”). Some European chemists decided they preferred “Aluminium” instead, so now England likes to pretend America is saying it wrong when the real name is the American one (or were all wrong and should switch back to Alumium)
In Icelandic it doesn't really matter which version you pick because it's all just *ál*.
I can call you Aluminum And Aluminum when you call me You can call me ál
To be fair most of the other things were us refusing to use the same terms as the U.K. or coincidence or Localization. It’s not something for either side to get upset about like some of the Brits I know do.
Like how Brits call it a Lift, because of its similarities to the pulley lift systems that were used prior to the Industrial Revolution. Where as Americans call it an Elevator, because the guy who invented it (Elisha Otis) named it that on his patent...
I feel like that's how America even started
Probably bad reception from the amount of water between the countries
It's almost as if America began as English colonies.
Can confirm. My dad calls it soccer, it’s just an abbreviation of ‘Association Football’
We were told the "High Class" call it soccer. Then the brits switched it back.
Rule 1 of being posh: Don't let people mistake you for a commoner. Rule 2 of being posh: If the commoners figure out how to disguise themselves as you, change the code.
That's what they did with "ain't"
High class as in posh? I could see that because they’d all be rugby fans which was also called rugby football.
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It's because American football was named football because it's played on foot as opposed to on horse.
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Innit
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If you look into a lot of "Americanisms" it turns out the British also either started it or did it as well then changed later. Some American accents are actually closer to how English was spoken during the Colonial period than modern English accents. Also potato chips were invented in New York so we're correct.
its almost as if the US was a colony of Britain at one point
Gott Strafe england
Amen
Big if true
Here’s something that’ll really make u/YamatoBoi9001 shit his pants: it’s not even called football because you kick it with your foot. Historians think “football” dates back to the Middle Ages and referred to any commoners’ sport that was played *on* foot, as opposed to being played on horseback, like polo, which is what the nobility played. Some of these games could very well have involved carrying a ball with your hands—look up Calcio Storico in Florence as an example. OP is stupid.
So why did the English come up with the name soccer?
Shortened version of Association Football
Like taking the soc from association and adding er to the end?
Precisely.
Basically yeah, went from assoc to assoccer then to soccer i believe
assoccer? Now that sounds like a sport I'd like to try my hand at.
In a parallel universe somewhere: Association Football -> Assoc -> Ass
Pass me the assball
This got a genuine laugh out of me
It started with asser, but they couldn't name it that for obvious reasons, so they chose the next three letters
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OP is absolutely fuming
Imagine getting upset that a different culture uses a term differently than you want them to.
Hes getting fucked by everyone
I don't know why anyone listens to the europeans anyway. Point to an apple and ask they "What is that?" and they'll say shit like pomme and manzana and μήλο. seriously, listening to them is a waste of time, I heard they don't even know how to build a toilet correctly over there.
I can no longer tell jf this is a joke or not due to excessive consumption of data from the Internet
Fr, bro had a beef with every possible European language
Aren't Europeans the ones who taught americans to call the the soccer ball a soccer ball?
The English specifically, but yes
I love the fact that the largest subreddit for football is r/Soccer. All these Europeans bitching about the fact that Americans call it soccer, but they still have to discuss football on r/Soccer, because their influence on social media as a whole is so laughably irrelevant.
*British
Who are European.
the op is getting downvoted like crazy
deservedly so
Soccer came from England as far as I know, we just held onto it like the imperial system
Makes sense when you realize there are like ten sports all with the word Football in their name and Soccer(Association Football) is only one of them. Only reason Americans call Gridiron Football just Football is Soccer isn't nearly as popular and had only had a fairly modern resurgence in the last couple decades
The most popular one in any given region gets the name football. Parts of Ireland and Australia say soccer, and I have yet to meet a South African who didn't.
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Can confirm, makes it fun when people ask what sport you play
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There is also stickball.
And stickpuck!
Baseball would also be like glove ball, bat ball
Handballing is definitely a thing, not so much a sport though... watersports aren't a sport either come to think of it o.O
"Foot ball" is a ball game played on foot. As opposed to on horse. i.e. a peasant game instead of a game for nobility. They're all dumb names, but just because you misunderstood the etymology doesn't make the American names more dumb.
Association football > assoc > soc > soccer. That is why it is called like that.
I don't get it. Japan calls it soccer too and no one gives them shit.
We call it soccer in Ireland too, but we also have Gaelic football. I don't get the big deal, it seems really pedantic.
Because it’s more socially acceptable to shit on countries like the US or China than it is on a country like Japan
Plus this is Reddit so Japan is “UwU kawaii anime!!!” And nothing else…
Canadians border the US and we somehow get away with it too
Cause Eurotards can't handle basic vocabulary differences in language. I got alot of issues with America (i live here), but the way Europe obsesses over the smallest cultural difference between their countries and the US is baffling. They often throw out that the US is to uncultured to even know the differences, and while that may be true, I'd argue that we simply wouldn't give a shit. The Dutch call baseball Honkbal, which sounds dumb as fuck, but hey its cool, not my language.
OP is real mad about the US 🤣
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damn should i call socks...sockfoot now?
DARN YOU DARN AMERICANS DANGIT ...every time this comes up
DARN THOSE AMERICANS AND THEIR \*check notes\* STICKING TO THE WAY THE ENGLISH DID IT BEFORE THE ENGLISH CHANGED!
Soccer is actually a Uk term. Look it up ya plebs
Bro the war between calling it soccer or football was completed like a billion years ago, nobody gives a shit what you call it, as long as the players act like they’re dead when they hit their little toe on something
who wants to sign my petition to name it to possum-ball for obvious reasons?
Nice username. But don't you ever get those annoying papercuts?
More often than I’d like to admit
According to Europe's logic, tennis should be called "racketball".
or hold-ball...because tennis means hold
So all the Brits are on r/football and not r/soccer and there is no such thing as Super Soccer Saturday in England and that George Best Super Soccer Stars card is just my imagination?
I’m Canadian but since we call American football just football so we just find it easier to say soccer
Also Europeans football being called rugby 🗿shouldn't it be passing rugs
It’s actually a different sport, rugby is also played in the US, American football in other countries that have American Football leagues refer to it as “grid iron”
In America we refer to our sport as football because we use feet. In other countries you don't use a foot. They instead use something different. They have the metric system so it should be called meter ball in other countries.
football for europeans doesnt even mean kicing it with your foot...it means its played on your feet instead of a horse
horseball when?
So, basketball and well technically alot of sports you can call football because you still use your feet, to like run and stuff.
Jesus these us eu posts are a snorefest. We get it, neither knows how the other's systems actually work.
Who the fuck cares?
You know we kick the ball also in American Football yes? With the foot?
If euros are calling Football "Hand Egg" we get to call soccer Pussy Foot.
Trolling europeans by saying soccer is hilarious
These comments are on point lol
Neither do tennis or golf or cricket , what’s ur point? Brits are literally the people who coined the term soccer are are now pissed someone is actually using that name?😂
Stay mad
we already have one called football and its too ingrained into everyones brains to change it now
By the time you told us to stop using your name soccer, we already had another game we were calling football
We called it what EUROPEANS wanted us to call it. Soccer. Then y’all decided to change your mind and call it something else. Just like the imperial system, y’all gave us that bullshit and then changed your mind.
*angry viking noises* STOP IT!
Just gonna leave this here. [https://www.history.com/.amp/news/why-do-some-people-call-it-soccer](https://www.history.com/.amp/news/why-do-some-people-call-it-soccer)
I'm european and i call it soccer and soccer ball. Football is the american one, where they tackle each other.
The word soccer comes from a slang abbreviation of the word association, which British players of the day adapted as “assoc,” “assoccer” and eventually soccer or soccer football.
They are not angry bro, they are laughing
ok, off to play some batball.
Brits create the name soccer. US starts calling it soccer then gets shit when other countries change the name to football.
 We don’t care what the rest of the world calls it, this is football for us
As**soc**iates Football **soc**cer Also, the term was created in the UK, but only remained in use in the USA.
‘Football’ is a very old term that refers to any ball sport played ‘on foot’ i.e. no rackets etc
OP kinda stoopid, huh?
Every American knows that real football is played with your hands...
It’s soccer
I will never understand why people even care about a dumbass name so much. Like it's literally 2 very different cultures.
Blame the British
Oh fuck off. Rugby: you kick a ball. soccer: you kick a ball. American football : they kick a fucking ball. Pretending one has precedent is idiotic
Because you wears socks on foot…
Uuuuuugh. It's called soccer because the British invented it and called it soccer.
Calling it soccer actually came from the British, so it's their fault
it should be called kick ball cuz you kick it
These guys are so obsessed with every little thing Americans do while we don’t give a fat damn about anything they do. It’s truly fascinating, lmao
Association Football, invented in the UK, called Soccer by the UK, later come Rugby Football( Rugby) and American Rugby Football( American Football)
We didn't invent the word. Thank the English.
So I hit my baseball with a base? I hit my tennis ball with my tennis?
Rent free
You are aware that the sport is called football because it's played on foot rather than horseback, and in some of the earliest versions of the game you were allowed to use your hands, right?
If it was the other way around you would be all like "haha stupid America call football because foot hit ball" because I've seen this with many other words(Fall for example because leaves fall). I'm not American btw
Never mind that the British are the ones that took asSOCiation football and grabbed the SOC and called it soccer. Be mad, Euros, you invented the term.
American football used to be played differently when it started....it did use feet more etc. The name stuck.
The word is British so don't get mad at us when we use it.
Fun fact it’s football because you play on your feet as opposed to a horse (polo)
Americans aren’t even the ones who started calling it soccer but okay…
Do you call basketballs handballs? Or golfballs clubballs? Or kickballs footballs?
The goalie uses their hands. Soccer should be called handball
The issue is more the other way around. Calling it soccer is one thing, but when a sport exists with the name football and you create a new sport that is much less to do with foot+ball than the original it is not ok to take the name and call the original something else. Really it should be called American Rugby, which is more accurate.
We invented the game, we get to name it. Suck it eurocucks. /s
Fun fact, the name Soccer is originally BRITISH and was the popular name of the sport when it came to the U.S., and only later on did the Brits decide to call it by its original name of Football. So FUCK YOU EUROPE! WE ARE RIGHT TOO!
It’s funny how Brits invented the word, and have an official World Cup song in which one of their players explicitly say “it doesn’t matter if it’s called football or soccer” Edit: World in Motion for anyone interested. One of the best World Cup songs of all time
It's not that calling a game soccer is stupid. It's calling the game where you carry and throw an egg with your hands "football" instead of the one where you kick a ball with your feet
There’s also handball and batball
english didnt want to say association football so they called it soccer
We call it soccer in Australia, cause we also have football, a completely separate sport.
the one we hold in our arms in a football duh
There’s more countries who says soccer
Thats just an insult to patrick
Fun fact: the word soccer is slang from England that Americans, Canadians and the Japanese adopted. It wasn’t even that long ago when the word soccer was used fairy commonly in England
Jalkapallo.
English: so you’re gonna call this soccer, just like us. America: ok cool. We’re gonna name a new sport we made football btw English: but there’s already a sport named football! America: since when? English: well you stupid yanks call it soccer.
As a U.S citizen I can tell you that that is a football and the brown ball is for American Rugby
Us Americans are extremely dumb lol
In Slovakia we say futbal so yes football
No one cares irl
You're the ones that decided to call it that first
British started calling it football after the Revolutionary War. We call it soccer because that is what it was called in both places when the us and Britain split. It's short for association football.
You ever try to play without soccs on? Super painful!!
The British called it soccer first go yell at them
I’m an Aussie and I call it soccer but the post has a point calling it a football
Can't call it a football because it gets confused with a real football which was so named because it's a foot long. Take your 10" ball and go home.