Why do AMERICANS call it SOCCER?

With the upcoming Fifa Men's World Cup taking place soon, and the 2026 World Cup coming to America, we thought it would be a good idea to ask fellow Americans "WHY DO WE CALL IT SOCCER" ?
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[@taaa183]

"Why we don't call basketball, handball?" because there is another sport called Handball

[@Marina_-_-]

She actually looked so stupid saying that 😂

[@djlani.868]

Is tht really a valid point, there are two footballs

[@Marina_-_-]

@@djlani.868 yes, because American football was called football looong after the sport already existed with the mentioned name so the Americans could have come up with another name.

[@jandamskier6510]

the amount of stupidity!

[@andreleao7758]

@@Marina_-_- it's how they usually look like

[@hassanmeraj8037]

Because Americans are isolated and they still think "what is rest of the world, we're the world"

[@andreleao7758]

That's the answer Everything else is a lie

[@lindaeasley5606]

America is top dog in the world. We don't follow anybody else Btw ,we called our game football before Britain and Europe called their game football. Britain originally called it soccer . You all are psycho

[@andreleao7758]

tOp DoG Cala a boca gringo de merda

[@miguelgarr576]

And you are part of the problem! America is a continent and not a country! Most "AMERICANS" called it football anly US called it soccer.

[@MrMM1007]

@@miguelgarr576 The only part of the world that calls it one giant continent is former Spanish/Catholic colonies. The entire rest of the world know it is the Americas (plural) and that the word America can represent more than one concept. Como muchas palabras espanol, no?

[@djketa_official]

We call the sport "football", the ball is called simply "ball". What I don't understand, is why the Americans called a sport they created from rugby "football"? If they call it football because they call the ball that way. It also seems wrong to me. Because the balls are round, not ovoid or oval. On the other hand, real football has a very simple explanation. It is played with a ball, and you have to touch it mainly with your feet, without using your hands. The end.

[@newbie4789]

He explained it well though. Both games were called football and originated from the same game. One then got the name Association football and another one Rugby Football. In lot of countries especially neighborhood European countries... Association football got much more popular than Rugby football so they ended up omitting the word association.... The bigger game got the rights to the name football. That's it. But because of the disconnected from Europe nature of America, They had a bit of a different development and Rugby football got popular there while Association football vanished. So naturally, they called the bigger game football. But then the less popular football came back after the world got a lot more connected and knowledge started exchanging... And Americans started adapting the Association football back in the country because of its popularity outside. And so , they needed a name and named it Soccer. And it is much better than renaming a sport that is well ingrained into the nation's culture itself. Similarly, Europeans gave the less popular football "rugby" coz it was from Rugby football.

[@blitzchamp3854]

Exactly! They should just named it American rugby instead of football since American "football" rarely uses their feet... Imbeciles really...

[@cheekmcbreek1146]

Did you watch the video? The name of 'football' originates from sports being played ON feet (to distunguish it from equestrian sports like polo). It has nothing to do with the ball being kicked, rather the entire game being played on foot.

[@blitzchamp3854]

@@cheekmcbreek1146, american football should be called american rugby...

[@cheekmcbreek1146]

@@blitzchamp3854 The name 'Rugby' in Rugby football comes from the school the original rules were made in. The name 'American' in American football also comes from the place the new rules were made, the USA. The ruleset they use is American, not the Rugby ruleset, it would make no sense to have it named 'American Rugby'. Also, it's still a football sport (sport played on feet), so no reason removing it.

[@rayonensb]

So call it American Rugby 😂🤷🏾‍♂️ it actually fits the sport, it’s almost the same concept lol same shaped 🏈🏉 passing & tackling, kicking the ball to the opponent after scoring etc American football did originate from Rugby league football !!

[@supersubsoccer]

Might be too late now😂

[@rayonensb]

@@supersubsoccer yeah it is 😂 I’m American & always have called it football ⚽️ & American football 🏈 but people get mad when i call it American Rugby 😂

[@juliopolina]

There are MANY differences between American Football and Rugby. First, there is NO Forward pass in Rugby. Just lateral or backward "tosses". In Rugby, due to the very odd shape of the ball, it is not possible to send a pass like in American Football. The ball has to be tossed; usually with two hands. Or, it can be kicked forward. Second, there is not a set system of plays like in football. It's more like in soccer, where you kick the ball around until a lucky guy scores. Third, ONLY the ball carrier can be tackled or blocked. Fourth, in American Football there is no "Scrum" like they have in some versions of Rugby. Which, by the way, they are getting rid of. Great move!!!! Rugby is indeed a very strenuous sport and their players are in excellent shape; much better than soccer players. In spite of that, they are not able to compete when they try to make a transition to American Football; which would be in their best interest. After several years of playing Pro, a great rugby player may make up to 100K. In American Football a ROOKIE player starts earning around Seven hundred thousand yearly. A great difference but, very few Rugby players have been able to make it in the NFL, other than kickers. And the difference in attendance to each sport is abysmal. Even though Rugby is played in many more countries that the US. And, btw, to all those ignorant of the fact, American Football is played professionally in several countries in the world. Maybe not at the same level as the NFL, but some of the players in those leagues have been able to make the transition to the NFL.

[@rayonensb]

@@juliopolina i know all this lol but American football did originated from Rugby football tho especially Rugby league football !!

[@gustavo6059]

No, is United States Rugby; look the fuck map gringo

[@TranquiloTrev]

I grew up in England, in London. I was a football fanatic. In the 1950's and 1960's football was called SOCCER or football equally in London and the UK.

[@johnf-americanreacts1287]

Thank you for the non-biased factual based comment. Much appreciated.

[@MrMM1007]

Why did it change in your opinion?

[@america1832]

There is NO sport in the WORLD or in any LANGUAGE of the WORLD called "soccer"

[@america1832]

The FOOTBALL sport invented in ENGLAND that means BALÓN PIE FOOT PIE BALL BALÓN as its name indicates it is a sport that is played with a BALL and the FEET and is the most popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD long after the idiots of the USA they invented a "sport" that is a cheap copy of rugby and copied the name to the true original and real FOOTBALL, in addition to copying the name to another somewhat illegal sport, they wrongly copied the name because that "sport" that only exists and is consumed in the US is plays with the FOOTBALL HANDS has absolutely nothing, that is, they don't even use to copy names, they even do it wrong and then the shameless US have the audacity to change the name of their real FOOTBALL association only in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call real FOOTBALL "soccer" something that DOESN'T EXIST and only call their fake "sport" "football" insignificant cheap copy of rugby that only ex Is and is consumed in the USA The United States Football Federation was founded on April 5, 1913 under the name of the United States Football Association. A year later, it was incorporated into FIFA in 1914. Until 1974 it was renamed to the current name United States Soccer Federation. In the USA the real FOOTBALL was also called by its name FOOTBALL as in the whole WORLD name that they just changed to their real FOOTBALL association in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call real FOOTBALL "soccer" and so they live in their unreal world falsified and fantasy poor stupid people

[@america1832]

FOOTBALL has been called FOOTBALL since it was created in ENGLAND until today 2022. It NEVER changed its name or had another name and it was NEVER EVER called "soccer" The terms "soccer" and "rugger" were just NICKNAMES used by a few Englishmen a long time ago to call FOOTBALL and RUGBY and their use was not even popular even as NICKNAMES, these terms were only used as NICKNAMES by a few Englishmen later never again these terms were not even used as NICKNAMES and the few English people who used these terms as NICKNAMES stopped using them "soccer" isn't even a word, it's the abbreviation of the word ASSOCIATION, that's why the USA got ridiculed to change the name of its real FOOTBALL association only in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call it like this to the true original and real FOOTBALL the biggest popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD and so they live in their unreal falsified and fantasy world poor stupid people

[@juliansandoval8022]

ironically, the brits were the ones who coined the term "soccer". In any case, is FOOTBALL

[@MrMM1007]

You completely contradicted yourself. Why are so many soccer fans so stupid?

[@Peregrine_1]

For the same reason Americans call it "Feet" and "Fahrenheit". They embrace that they are different and won't try to compromise

[@andrejluneznik9254]

Feet and Fahrenheit are old European imperial units and in no way an american invention. American football is a variation of rugby. Why they didn´t call it american rugby is a mystery to me.

[@MrMM1007]

Compromise with who? There isn't some international organization of vocabulary? There is a very common sense reason they call it soccer (and the British invented and exported the word soccer, not the U.S.). But everyone is so desperate to make the U.S. the bully that they can't even use common sense.

[@Agtsmirnoff]

England still use feet common communication

[@Agtsmirnoff]

@@MidosujiSen mile is a useless term, but feet is much easier to convey than 1/3 meter or 33cm, 33 cm has no meaning

[@nieczerwony]

@@andrejluneznik9254 Oh so you mean Americans hated their oppressors that much they adopted their language and units? Why they didn't go and adopt steering wheel on right hand side?

[@Difdauf]

You can't expect people who call Budweisers beer to name things properly.

[@MrMM1007]

We have some of the greatest beers in the world now...Budwieser aside. Maybe if you stopped giving in to stereotypes and lazy fact finding you might learn about the rest of the world and appreciate what it has to offer. But stay simple if you'd like...

[@Agtsmirnoff]

We didn’t name it soccer idiot, watch the video

[@jankokol9817]

@@MrMM1007 Sorry, mate but the most popular/best beers are mady in Germany, Belgium, Austria, and some other European countries; the only well-known beers from the US are Budweiser and Cools, both of which are horrible beers to drink

[@MrMM1007]

@@jankokol9817 1998 called and it wants its opinion back. Times change - do some research.

[@jankokol9817]

@@MrMM1007 Well, sorry that my opinion on beer does not correlate with yours. I have my own views, you have yours, and everyone has their own - and we will have to deal with it

[@morganbrokaw5190]

The fact that the English can't accept that other people have different dialects even when they invented the term. Stunningly arrogant.

[@relaxamentosuave8696]

But in others countries they call Football as well. Brasil, Argentina, and the others, except you, from USA. Truth be told football makes more sense instead of soccer. Your football is played with hands, and the "ball" is an egg. So... I have to say, the rest of the world is correct.

[@morganbrokaw5190]

@@relaxamentosuave8696 Italy calls it callico, Australia calls it soccer, south Africa, new Zealand. Anywhere where a descendant of rugby football became more popular. Y'all were the ones who also named rugby football. Do you know why? Because it was played on foot, in contrast to polo, which was played on horseback. For gods sake, as early as 1600, English writers called games where kicking the ball was disallowed football. Ffs, just let us be.

[@relaxamentosuave8696]

You're wrong about Italy. They call football too. In addition, those countries you mentioned haven't got any tradition with the football. But in therms of history, as you said, yeah, perhaps the English called games where kicking the ball was disallowed football, but it doesn't mean that the real football has became what it really is with the name football, not "soccer". So now, we all call football, the sport that is played with the feet and the ball. You, americans, try to make people around the world call football that sport you got tradition (egg + hands). But it won't happen. The only football is the sport with played with feet and ball. By the way, when we mentioned your "football" we say "american football", it's kinda say: only you and those countries you mentioned play it. And it is ok, but you have to admit that the entire world is correct, and the USA and Australia and South Africa named this sport as the way you want to.

[@morganbrokaw5190]

@@relaxamentosuave8696 nobody has ever tried to make non Americans call it soccer. And no one has ever tried to make non Americans call our rugby football based game football. American football works, as does gridiron. We're not telling anyone else what to do, y'all are all trying to tell us to change our century's old naming scheme the English gave us rather than yall simply accepting that other people have different dialects than you. Y'know like how adults would.

[@MrMM1007]

@@relaxamentosuave8696 Don't you think it is strange that the countries you mentioned, along with the U.S and Canada, are the countries with less football tradition? Especially since they are the oldest British colonies? And India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka are former British colonies that prefer non-football (cricket) too? Isn't it strange that the oldest British colonies (former) DON'T prefer football? Actually there is a logical reason (and it is the same reason Americans & others call it soccer). It has nothing to do with "using feet" or hand-egg, or any of the other made up arguments that football/soccer fans claim. Educate yourself maybe?

[@rankpa]

Why do Italians call it ‘calcio’? Why did the Romans call it ‘harpastum’? Why did the British start calling their no-hands ‘association rules’ type of football ‘soccer’ - which term then crossed the Atlantic and got the Americans calling it that? Why do the British call the storage compartment in the back of an automobile a ‘boot’? What do the British call the specialized cleated shoe used to kick a ‘foot’ball? Why are ‘foot’ball players allowed to play the ball with other body parts - like heads, chests, thighs, and even their asses? When the British started calling ‘asSOCiation rules football’ ‘SOCcer’, why didn’t they call ‘ASSociation football’ ‘ASSer’ or even ‘ASSball’ instead?

[@MrMM1007]

Shhhh...they dont want facts and data. They want to feed their childish rage.

[@manchesterunited35-2]

You must hate soccer(football)

[@MrMM1007]

@@manchesterunited35-2 "You must hate soccer". Why, because the only two options are blind devotion or hate? What a childish point of view. And no, I don't hate soccer/football at all. I just don't prefer it over other sports. I am an adult in otherwords.

[@manchesterunited35-2]

@@MrMM1007 ​ oh ok you seem mad when people call it by its actual name and use common sense but ok

[@MrMM1007]

@@manchesterunited35-2 I seem mad when people fall for misinformation because they want to believe they are special and better than someone else because of a game . Its ACTUAL name is Association Football, not football. If you weren't so desperate to be part of something "special", you'd realize you aren't that special and your favorite sport isn't "magical" or "a religion"...it's just a sport.

[@zinzincoetzee1934]

Im from south africa and here most people call it soccer. Once your super obsessed with soccer/football, you call it football

[@manchesterunited35-2]

Same, always called it soccer when i lived there (until I became in love of the game)

[@JohnSmith-oe5kx]

Soccer wasn’t “the old nickname” at the time, it was what many people called it in England. And the exact same thing happened in Canada with Canadian football.

[@JKKoneofakind]

In truth, it's the fault of the British that Americans call Soccer Soccer, and it's also the fault of the British that Americans call Football Football.

[@MisterFreak579]

This shows how backward that Country is, calling Football "Soccer", and their own version of Rugby "Football" when it has nothing to do with a foot and literally stole its name from the real Football game the rest of the world knows.

[@WillS.TheSuperReds.]

​@@mikeflames2535yes it is. You don't need to call nfl football because your not playing with yihr feet, your using your hands when running with the ball just like in the real proper sport called rugby , nfl is just another cheap version of rugby with the name football stolen from the game F⚽️⚽️TBALL , where the aim of the game us to use your feet to score 🙄. NFL 🙄

[@WillS.TheSuperReds.]

@@mikeflames2535 no get it right 🤡, in football ⚽️ you use your feet majority of the time in that nfl garbage you mainly use your hands just like in the real proper sport called RUGBY. Hahaha you calling me retarded look who's talking. How anyone can be as retarded as you is impossible. It's called being passionate about the sport Football ⚽️ and if you weren't so butt hurt about your stupid nfl rubbish then you wouldn't have replied , but you did so clearly your butt hurt dumbass.

[@WillS.TheSuperReds.]

@@mikeflames2535 yeah and you could say the same about you apart from your the definition of a demented retard.

[@WillS.TheSuperReds.]

@@mikeflames2535 I have nothing to cry about, unlike yourself. I'm just stating facts that you can't face Football ⚽️ , nfl cheap rip of a real mans sport rugby.

[@WillS.TheSuperReds.]

@@mikeflames2535 neither am I jackass. What as a culture got to do with the sport name football ⚽️. You clearly have something to do with a cult otherwise you wouldn't even mention it in the first place 🙄. Come to think of it you probably don't even know the meaning of the word "cult" idiot.

[@HiKeiShi]

i knew about them calling it soccer across the pond first for awhile. which is why it’s always been funny to me when they feel a way whenever they hear us call it soccer. 😂

[@speeg1326]

soccer was slang for association football, you are wrong. 😂

[@MrMM1007]

@@speeg1326 I think that was their point - that it was soccer in UK (across the pond) first.

[@gastrickbunsen1957]

@@MrMM1007 True, but it has become a disused term for almost a century. As the foot is used almost all of the time it is known as football. The two sports most akin to grid iron are, rugby union and rugby league, the term football never arises.

[@B0R0M1R]

yes the English always were ignorant as hell but unlike the amricuhns, they rose above it and started to use their brains

[@johnf-americanreacts1287]

@@B0R0M1R Ironic that you’d say such a thing which, in and of itself, is an ignorant comment. I repeat as I said in other comments to this post, the fact that all the ire is directed toward Americans when Canadians, Australians, South Africans and even Irish use the term soccer, because we all got it from England and all have other games called football, is telling of the absurd anti-Americanism. Stereotyping Americans in this way as though this nation of 300 plus million people is some monolithic society is the epitome of ignorance, bigotry and intolerance.

[@Pencilman246]

It’s amazing how many people ignored your really well put together video explaining the origin of the terms and why Americans use different terms and there’s still people in the comments saying “America dumb, football is hand egg durr” Thanks for your comment, it’s sure to convince almost 400M Americans to suddenly change their minds about what a sport is called here. We should really just use the full terms “association football” “rugby football” and “American football” but also I realize that there are historic reasons for these things and we only just now notice and fight about cultural differences because of globalization and the internet. 100 years ago, nobody in the US cared that football was played elsewhere with their feet, they just knew their sport was called football. Europeans can think that’s funny or stupid or whatever but our cultural differences make us unique and it’s not hard to just accept that. In the meantime, hack comedians like John Cleese (who has been a hack since the end of Monty Python) can keep making endless handegg jokes.

[@MrMM1007]

I agree totally. But people don't really care about the game, they just need an excuse to feed their false narratives. So sad.

[@jamesgunn5358]

Amazing how many commented without watching the video. Love this topic, cracks me up. Well done!

[@arefalawadhi7364]

He is 100% right. American football should be called " TACKLE ball". Not football .

[@kreitous]

It's not just USA, also Canada, Australia, Zealand and Japan ( sokka). And, by the way, Italy don't call "futeboli", it is Calcio, and no one complaing. Why ? World just like to trigger americans . . .

[@unggading6990]

Japan's national team is JFA you do the math. But a small portion of people do call it Soccer before qualifying for the world cup.

[@MrMM1007]

@@unggading6990 And a popular sports show in the UK is still called "Soccer Saturday", even in 2023. You do the math.

[@unggading6990]

@@MrMM1007 Probably an american producer duhh!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MrMM1007]

​@@unggading6990 What? Don't be stupid.

[@unggading6990]

@@MrMM1007 I am not the one who is calling Football soccer. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Astro-vl5fe]

This is a genuine question, why are so many people so irritated by it being called "soccer"? I understand someone may be passionate, and dedicate their life to the sport but that doesn't mean there aren't Americans who feel the same way. At the end of the day everyone is basically playing the same sport, so why get so pissed. Why can't countries just respect other countries terminology...🤷‍♂️?

[@MrMM1007]

Because they desperately need something to be mad at. Most of these people who are so "passionate" about the sport don't even bother to read the history or understand the sport. They just want to be part of an angry mob and this is a convenient mob to join. Most of them don't even know that soccer isn't an American word.

[@Vlaadish3]

Yeah, it's no big deal, for example your "football" in my country is called American Rugby and I don't see any Americans offended by that.

[@MrMM1007]

@@Vlaadish3 Whatever floats your boat.

[@Pencilman246]

They don’t seem to realize that all of us Americans grew up calling it soccer, it’s not like we chose to do so overnight to annoy them. When we learn that it’s called “football” elsewhere, we don’t say “wow I have to call it football now” nor do we say “that’s wrong it’s soccer!!” We just say “oh interesting” and move on with our lives. It’s just a cultural difference, just like the British drive on the wrong side of the road. There’s no way you’re going to convince every American who has called football soccer and American football just football our entire lives to change our terminology overnight, even if we agree with the logic. And American football is called football for the same reason rugby football is called football, so it’s not like we’re too stupid to realize that we use our hands in football, it’s because both sports used to be the same thing once upon a time. So I wish this whole argument would just go away because it isn’t productive nor is it helping the growth of the sport, it’s turning people off it it if anything.

[@stupidnitskie]

It's not that they are irritated by calling it "soccer", they are irritated to the fact that muricans think it is called soccer and not football, like they think football is a wrong name for that sport.

[@leogonzales4069]

Boohoo. Why not ask the Italians to stop calling it Calcio? If you´re an American, call it soccer. Own it. If anything, it adds to the richness of our sport.

[@MrMM1007]

But then they won't able to have meaningless, ignorant debates!

[@federicobalboa9145]

game invented in the US? Get the man a compass.

[@cheekmcbreek1146]

The American rules of Football were invented in the USA. The entire concept of a game of ball played on your feet existed all over the world before British Football became the most popular.

[@mtk3755]

@@cheekmcbreek1146 lmao no you didn't invent it. Rugby was invented by brits and you adapted it from brits and changed your own version but it still is like rugby. So you didn't invent it

[@AntonioAio]

@@cheekmcbreek1146 You dont even play hand egg with a ball, brickhead!

[@813kksnaa]

@@mtk3755 Rugby Football was invented by the Rugby School in England. American Football (Gridiron Football) was invented by Harvard at the Harvard/McGill game using the “Boston-style” rules of Football. So yes, the Americans did invent American Football.

[@TheSportsBoffin]

Rugby has evolved into several other sports Rugby Union, Rugby League, Aussie Rules Football (AFL), Gaelic Football ( A hybrid of aussie rules and association football and rugby), and of course Canadian Football and American Football. Also some key dates for future reference....1888 Foundation of the EFL( Football League) 1889 Foundation of Football Alliance...1892 The League absorbs the Football Alliance after league folds and clubs go bust...surviving clubs are absorbed into EFL...1992 Premier League splits from EFL although still part of the 4 division league structure. Rugby splits into League and Union in 1895.....1908 is when Rugby League sets up in Australia...Rugby Union goes professional in 1995 while League had been classed as Pro since 1895 although not in modern sense as players still had day jobs but were paid to play.. true full time professionalism is a more modern concept since around 60s/70s. Gaelic Football and other related Galeic Amateur Assisiation sports including Hurling are still Amateur today. Hurling is similar to Lacrosse.

[@supersubsoccer]

It's crazy how one sport can end up leading to so many other variations. Thanks for the insight!

[@juliopolina]

And The town of Rugby, in England, organized the sport officially years before Soccer was organized. So the real beginning of all organized Football games was Rugby.

[@johnf-americanreacts1287]

Hurling is one crazy sport. My Irish brother in law clued me into it. Such a local sport too.

[@america1832]

@@supersubsoccer There is NO sport in the WORLD or in any LANGUAGE of the WORLD called "soccer"

[@america1832]

@@supersubsoccer The FOOTBALL sport invented in ENGLAND that means BALÓN PIE FOOT PIE BALL BALÓN as its name indicates it is a sport that is played with a BALL and the FEET and is the most popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD long after the idiots of the USA they invented a "sport" that is a cheap copy of rugby and copied the name to the true original and real FOOTBALL, in addition to copying the name to another somewhat illegal sport, they wrongly copied the name because that "sport" that only exists and is consumed in the US is plays with the FOOTBALL HANDS has absolutely nothing, that is, they don't even use to copy names, they even do it wrong and then the shameless US have the audacity to change the name of their real FOOTBALL association only in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call real FOOTBALL "soccer" something that DOESN'T EXIST and only call their fake "sport" "football" insignificant cheap copy of rugby that only ex Is and is consumed in the USA The United States Football Federation was founded on April 5, 1913 under the name of the United States Football Association. A year later, it was incorporated into FIFA in 1914. Until 1974 it was renamed to the current name United States Soccer Federation. In the USA the real FOOTBALL was also called by its name FOOTBALL as in the whole WORLD name that they just changed to their real FOOTBALL association in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call real FOOTBALL "soccer" and so they live in their unreal world falsified and fantasy poor stupid people

[@enzozordan152]

I'm Brazilian and my people transformed football and we spell futebol the pronunciation is the same as in English and everyone in the world calls it by the same name except the USA we agree with the English who invented the sport and they will always be right! Americans don't know what the sport is called because they haven't learned it yet and don't understand how it's played!

[@feralv1975]

It is football

[@supersubsoccer]

Association Football

[@andreleao7758]

@@supersubsoccer football

[@heatguyjr]

I think the better question is why do the British only pick on Americans about this word? Americans aren't the only ones who say soccer. Other countries like Canada, Australia and South Africa for some examples all have other more popular forms of football codes in their countries. They all also say soccer. They are all British Commonwealth too so you'd think that would be even more egregious but for some reason they insist on only bringing up Americans when this topic comes up. I don't think I've ever heard anyone ever say "Why do Canadians call it soccer?". I think that's the more pressing question that we need to get to the bottom of. Same people who nitpick about this don't seem to be bothered one bit that there's a show in Sky Sports called Soccer Saturday.

[@MrMM1007]

Exactly. Most of the people who hate the word soccer hate it because they are told to hate it...and also because anti-Americanism is fashionable. You'd think these posters would be embarrassed by how little they know about the game they claim to love. But apparently not.

[@GodisWithUsMinistries]

if anyone in these comments actually listened to the whole video most of them wouldnt exist.

[@hydrog.]

Great video! Can't wait to see you go further

[@supersubsoccer]

Really appreciate that! Thanks for watching!

[@america1832]

@@supersubsoccer THERE IS NO sport in the WORLD or in any LANGUAGE of the WORLD called "soccer" RIDICULOUS IDIOT

[@america1832]

​@@supersubsoccerAMERICA is a CONTINENT made up of 35 countries and more than 1000 million inhabitants poor stupid ignorant people are pitiful

[@sruffolo9303]

Italy be like: *calcio*😰

[@gorsed3060]

Verry good explanation. Greetings from Germany.

[@supersubsoccer]

Thanks for watching!

[@reiniergarcia]

Flash news for the Americans: This is the Planet Earth. It’s called FOOTBALL. Not “soccer”. This is an American Eggball 🏈 played almost and it’s used in a boring, super slow and repetitive AF little game (using almost entirely the hands) that almost nobody knows nor cares about. And this is a FOOTBALL ⚽️, used on the most fun, fast pace and usually violent game in the whole freaking world. It’s followed by most of humankind and guess what? It’s played almost exclusively with our foot. That’s why it’s called Football. Are you following Americans or you guys maybe need a drawing with crayons? I hope it’s not so difficult.

[@StylistecS]

So after this inane rant, you do realize that Americans won't conform to what you say and still will call it soccer, right. The arrogance and ignorance you have is quite remarkable.

[@Ramzy82]

Thanks a lot for this very informative video! I enjoyed watching :) Liked and subscribed :) All the best from Germany 👍

[@kingspeechless1607]

When I was much younger I recall American football fairly regularly referred to as 'Gridiron football' or just Gridiron.

[@tikikeram850]

Yeah . Go watch the game with ads/halftime show. We , the rest of the world just watching sport.

[@beardedsloth7805]

Americans do love the sport of hand-egg , that basketball comment was funny because basketball is the best description for that game

[@Agtsmirnoff]

Why? Should football be called netball then?

[@beardedsloth7805]

@@Agtsmirnoff netball is already taken

[@Agtsmirnoff]

@@beardedsloth7805 Only for women

[@beardedsloth7805]

It still exists

[@estelaangeles2346]

@@beardedsloth7805 but other countries played futbol with hands in the past....before england

[@Paolo_Nottola]

It’s calcio

[@layziehorse72]

Because we have our own football which is more popular than soccer here in the states, simple as that

[@JPMadden]

I love the historical irony that the word "soccer" was invented at Oxford in the late 1800s. "Soccer" was widely used in the UK. After World War 2, most Brits switched to the word "football" because "soccer" came to be considered posh. I don't understand anyone getting genuinely upset about this, but it's especially ridiculous when people from England do. Do any Brits still call rugby "rugger" or breakfast "brekkers?"

[@MrMM1007]

You are exactly right. But none of the mouth-breathers on this sight want information or facts. The irony is that most of them will call Americans the ignorant ones. Because they desperately want that narrative.

[@littlebigjohn69]

its just common sense football is the correct label, because you use your foot and kick the ball. americans are just plain stupid, they should change their sport to call it hand ball .

[@MrMM1007]

@@littlebigjohn69 When someone says, "its just common sense" what they really mean is, "it makes sense in my head so everyone else should do it like I say". This "rule" that football = kicking the ball isn't even historically accurate. Immature soccer fans made it up because they can't admit the real reason they are mad....anit-Americanism mixed with toxic obsession.

[@ft9kop]

Australians still call breakfast brekkers from what I've heard

[@Agtsmirnoff]

They called it soccer into the 1980s kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYTZiIypiLmEm80

[@amina-pr8xt]

You can keep your american football...

[@Sempuukyaku]

80% of the people in this comments section didn't even watch the video 🤣

[@ptl2007]

Historically soccer was the original name, it was later changed to football, Look it up.

[@MrMM1007]

Not totally true. The original name was Association Football (one of the many forms of football being played in Britain at the time). Soccer is a shortened version of 'Association'. But the word 'football' has never belonged to just the soccer version. Most of these posters are dumb as rocks.

[@AchimE]

Football is played with an egg and hands, but soccer is played with a ball and foot... so what name is more fitting? 😉⚽🏈

[@supersubsoccer]

Well when you put it like that...

[@lazlothegoat9663]

Except that football was meant to describe sports played on foot, at a time when most sports were played on horseback😉so you had rugby football🏉and association football⚽️

[@juliashireen6195]

hahahahahahahhaa

[@BendonPC]

@@lazlothegoat9663 And? The names should have changed long ago, Football doesn’t fit with the American game anymore

[@MrMM1007]

@@BendonPC What do you mean "and"? You were wrong and Lazlo showed you that. Most of the posters here are completely full of sh!t and couldn't think themselves out of a paper bag. Stop being ignorant because the rage feels good.

[@bgsash242]

06:23 in england and the rest of the world, people still call it rubgy and they play the game without safety gear. You can watch the rugby world cup this sept to october in france.

[@PlayShorts3]

Americans call a game they play with their hands football, and they only kick the ball once every now and then. But the Europeans call a game they play with their feet... and if touched by their hands, it's a foul... Football.

[@Lucas_Tulic]

Well, we saw in the recent World Cup how far "soccer" went, with Canada scoring ZERO points and the U.S. playing only 4 matches, winning only one of those. Our football on the other hand, is World Champion! Cheers from Buenos Aires!

[@seity5587]

Estaba Usa en la copa mundial? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@nhksam9203]

Japan call it soccer and although they didn't make it far they beat both Germany and Spain

[@Lucas_Tulic]

@@nhksam9203 Japan FOOTBALL Association, and, although they use the word 'sakkā' (derived from "soccer"), MANY people also uses the word futtobōru (derived from football). But at the end of the day, you confirmed my point by saying that they didn't make it far.

[@nhksam9203]

@@Lucas_Tulic Yes some Japanese people call it futtoboru but most of everyone calls it sakka, its way more common than futtoboru. And even though Japan didn't make it far they played better than both Spain and Germany, two countries that you and I can agree are supposed to be powerhouses. My point is them calling the sport "soccer" does not mean they will be bad. USA's youth teams are in the same level as Argentina.

[@nhksam9203]

@@Lucas_Tulic You should also remember that in the 2018 world cup, Argentina also only played 4 matches and lost twice (they were in a easier group as well) USA played 4 matches this world cup and only lost once. USA's performance this world cup is not gonna define their future endeavors.

[@kate8612]

We call it soccer because that’s the name of the sport

[@MrMM1007]

No it isn't. the name of the sport is LITERALLY Association Football. Association football was codified in the 1860's. The ORIGINAL game of football (which had few rules and differed from town to town) dates back 500 years before that and was NOT association football. Why are so many soccer/futbol fans so stupid about the sport they claim to love?

[@Jess-zf9wz]

Google it, the term soccer originated in England

[@MrMM1007]

Google is too much research for these idiots. They 'd rather get all of their 'facts' from random strangers on the internet (but only the facts that support their baseless opinions).

[@mikecameron2151]

Because you have a sport called American Football your call actual football socce. American Football is simply an American adaption of a sport called Rugby League Football. which is not to be confused with Rugby Union

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

More precisely, American football stems from modified Rugby union rules (not to be confused with Rugby football or the Rugby Football Union or the Rugby League) and stems more directly from association football. So you basically take "soccer" (after the union of Sheffield and Cambridge rules) and adopt modified rugby rules and keep calling it football.

[@cheri_17]

South Africans also call it soccer

[@remitodevioletas]

People from US call it soccer for the same reason they call themselves “Americans. They think there is nothing outside US.

[@eznorelol1174]

If people want to get technical about why football should be called soccer, american football should be called "bastard rugby/american rugby" or even "american handball", as rugby was called rugby football because of course, the players can kick the ball whenever they want, which is not the rule in american football. Australian Football as well, matter of fact, you can't throw the ball with your hands, and you can dribble it however you want, making american football the only football sport where you can't use your foot freely. That is on the sense of the name, logically, it should be named rugby because of it being "son" of rugby football. By the set of the rules, rugby's rules are not as similar to american football as many think, matter fact, on the basic side, american football has the same rules as handball, except for the tackles, and yes, you can use your whole body to obstruct the path of the ball in handball as long as the contact is not dangerous. I am not against the name soccer, I will use it if I need to, I am against the narcissist americans that call american football the "football" sport forgetting that there is a lot of other footballs, every single one older than american football.

[@duaneeitzen1025]

Are you against all "narcissists who call their sport football ignoring the many other kinds of football", or just the Americans? And all the varieties evolved from the same parent ... they are all the same age.

[@DeepDownInTheOcean]

@@duaneeitzen1025 It's pretty clear he's just against Americans. No one anywhere called American Football "bastard rugby".

[@DeepDownInTheOcean]

Soccer came from Association football, so it's an abbreviation. This is why we don't care about the FA Cup having Football in the name. American football (or the one Europeans call hand egg/ball) is just Rugby football with modified rules. The most common misunderstanding Europeans have with the word "Football" is it means kicking a ball with your feet. It does not. It just means a game played on foot. Last thing, why are Americans being slammed for using the name "Soccer", when there are other countries that use it? Not to mention, England only stopped using the name Soccer simply because it became popular in America, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa, only to be different. Had America not picked up on the name Soccer, England would be using that name *as we speak.*

[@freddiemedley5580]

John Cleese is loosing his marbles we still widely called it Soccer in the 60's when he was in his early 20's

[@jameswinnard2097]

everytime you see your team win in American football 🏈 just remember, we the british gave you that, your welcome

[@supersubsoccer]

Thanks

[@rebeccaforbis2704]

Thank you for the brain damage. Lol. And the original abbreviation for Association Football, assoccer. If it had been left at that NO boy from the US would have dared to pronounce it because I seriously doubt Mother's in the 1800's spent a lot of time worrying about sparing the rod.

[@kpunk]

By that logic you should thank the Chinese for football and Americans should thank you for baseball

[@estelaangeles2346]

@@supersubsoccer futbol was played in other countries before england

[@MrMM1007]

Thank you!

[@tommyt4259]

We here in Australia call it "soccer" as well. We have our own "football" here called AFL or even NRL can be called footy. Basically I think the most dominant "football" code in a country is called football.

[@saurabhtiwari6136]

It's called football ffs

[@mtk3755]

And you can change because world doesn't revolve around you

[@ordinaryman8199]

I have a question for you guys aussies, Why when i watch some live stream matches of A-League from Aussie TV, commentators always say "Football". And as far as I know, the Australian FA was formerly called the Australian Soccer Association now it has changed its name to Football Australia, so now its called football or transition from soccer to football, or still called soccer, if its still called soccer why on TV and news websites always refer this sport as football?

[@tommyt4259]

@@ordinaryman8199 the only people in Australia that refer to it as "football" over "soccer" are soccer fans. The general public would answer the same as the Americans did. Also what's the name of the Australian team? That will give you the answer.

[@mech-x-xavious]

​@MTK it doesn't revolve around you either. We're not gonna change its name simply because you all call it something different.

[@sohigamer141]

Why not Call the same question to Canadians, Irish, New zealeanders and Australians?? They also call it soccer. Why ask only Americans?? Australia's national team is literally called the 'Socceroos'. Why are people only offended by the USA calling it soccer and not by other countries calling it soccer??

[@rayquaza1245]

Because they have an inferiority complex about the USA since they're the greatest country

[@LeDardeursPalace]

Triggered much?

[@sohigamer141]

@@LeDardeursPalace its rather you who is getting triggered after hearing the truth.

[@andreleao7758]

People are offended by everyone who calls it soccer Yankees, Aussies, canadian..

[@MrMM1007]

And the worst part is none of these triggered people have any clue as to the history of the sport they profess to 'love'. They are so ignorant.

[@Aaron-MackHartford]

The answer is simple, why American call it soccer and not football. Because us American already got of our own football, so it would be too confusing to be calling the soccer-football. When we already got football already here in US. Plus I don’t want to see what the fuss about. Britain have to accept that us American call it’s soccer. It that’s simple, get over it.

[@HamsterTMS]

Soccer is a British word, not an American word, the British hate to admit it however it does not change the fact that it's soccer and not football

[@sastaassh1112]

Get a job

[@unirreductibleathee8467]

great video ! I learned something about history of the sport...

[@supersubsoccer]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@america1832]

@@supersubsoccer THERE IS NO sport in the WORLD or in any LANGUAGE of the WORLD called "soccer" RIDICULOUS IDIOT

[@broccolinyu911]

As an American, we really should have just called our version of football Rugby.

[@MrMM1007]

No our game is completely different than both forms of rugby. They already had a set if rules. The problem is that soccer fans have no idea why their game is called football and they keep trying to force their ignorance on us. They should try a new comcept called reading and add in some critical thinking skills. Instead they act like fuckwads.

[@manchesterunited35-2]

@@MrMM1007 Foot-ball, you kick a ball with your foot

[@MrMM1007]

@@manchesterunited35-2 Foot-ball, you run on your feet while playing the game. The word football predates soccer/futbol by hundreds of years and was used to describe mob football (early forms of various games). Your claim that football = kick with your foot was made up very recently to justify irrational rage at American football and/or the word soccer. Grow up.

[@gabrielvelosa2597]

I love Soccer ⚽️!!!

[@mtk3755]

Football

[@gabrielvelosa2597]

@@mtk3755 You mean Soccer.

[@pablomiranda247]

@@mtk3755 it’s soccer

[@adrianpallis4568]

Solution, americans oughts to call their thing "Egg chasing" !!!

[@monta-man3458]

Americans don't call this game "soccer". People from USA and Canada, call it soccer, rest of America call it Fútbol, football or futebol, but not soccer. USA is a part pr America, not America.

[@andreleao7758]

Facts

[@loganleroy8622]

Oh boy, not this discussion again. American in English refers to the United States. "Americano" in Spanish refers to the entire continent. But in English there are two continents not one.

[@Sanatani_adiyogi]

I think the appropriate name for American Football is American Rugby

[@MrMM1007]

Rugby is a form of football. Soccer is a form of football. American is a form of football. Footy is a form of football. Gaelic is a form of football. Why are you ⚽ fans so f***ing stupid?

[@DonKalusha]

Argentina campeón del mundooooo!!!

[@davidtoautsam-fp3qi]

All around PNG We say SOCCER

[@lucasmagalhaes1718]

This video explain everything. Thank you buddy

[@supersubsoccer]

Happy to help. Thanks for watching!

[@mtk3755]

@@supersubsoccer hey man also explain why Americans didn't call it American rugby ever as rugby football existed back then. And why can't Americans change or adapt now.

[@dieselboy77]

I don't care Americans call it Socca ..I just can't stand when Americans tell me that is not real football when I call it football

[@TresCaro]

Thanks, great explanation! Just to clarify... Football was actually played first (created) in China and South america. What Britain did was give a formal name to a sport that already existed by that time, but Britain do not invented football.

[@MrMM1007]

There is no known link between the games played in China, S. America, and the ones in England. So they all probably invented a game that looked similar but didn't get shared (and football in British history did not always mean a game played with feet, that is a myth spread by futbol fans who are mad that other sports use the word football).

[@mtk3755]

@@MrMM1007 nah I'm sure the brits got the idea from Chinese or meso America. It's just that it developed and evolved and spread more by the brits.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Knowing how much kicking things around is natural in Brasil, moving a ball with your feet is probably one of the earliest human team sports.

[@AWF1000]

Why do they assume America is the only country that calls it Soccer. I'm from Australia and we always call it Soccer. I feel like there is some ignorance that they assume Soccer is the only football code. Why would we call it football when we have our own football codes. Also Australian Rules Football is the oldest football code in the world just saying.

[@duncan61]

The most important question is... why do people care so much that Americans call it soccer? Countries and cultures all over the world have different names when describing the same thing, it's not uncommon and no one cares, except for this soccer thing. I have a very strong feeling that it's not about the word, rather, it's an easy way for the rest of the world to find commonality in hating on the US. Other biases are at play here, including the fact that people around the world can't stand that most Americans generally don't care for the sport. The sport just isn't very popular relative to other US sports amongst the general population, while around the world, it's pretty much everyone's favorite sport. As you explained nicely in this video, there is actually a very good reason the US calls it soccer. It has nothing to do with the US trying to be different, it has everything to do with the fact that we already had a more popular sport in this country that went by that name. Both sports and their names come from England. Blame England, not the US. Finally, football doesn't get its name because the player mostly plays with his feet, the term football refers to the fact that players are on their feet rather than on horseback.

[@supersubsoccer]

Very interesting thoughts. Really appreciate your comment!

[@GustavoSouza-gf6ty]

Maybe people don't care so much about it. In fact, people call Football various names around the world. Maybe that's weird for people from other places where the influence of the US hasn't stripped practically all of the country's identity with Canada. People know that the name of the sport is Football, the associations call the sport Football and so on. You invented a sport and named it Football even though it is the twin brother of rugby and you call Football Soccer. It's strange, you guys are exotic like India or the countryside of China. Normal people from other countries who are connected by a global culture that Football brings to find outside Football that must have more than 1000 leagues and competitions around the world calling it Football. To see such a big country and that people have access to information calling the sport even today by a slang term.

[@ErnestoKub9532]

The most important part of your comment shows how paranoid are us citizens thinking foreigners care about how they call things. We would like you to use the same word for you to get a chance to be a part of the real world, and understand others and not being left alone on the side of the road, that's all. Remember americans represents only 4% of the global population which should led them to understanding how trivial is this position: americans vs the world.

[@mtk3755]

Wow so that's like I'll call America some shit name when the officially accepted name is America that too in let's say American organizations and you think people will not care? Americans even in football organizations and media try to force their soccer term on the world. When you try to force term soccer world will obviously not like because the term football is widely accepted.

[@mtk3755]

That's like I call your version hand egg even in American media and organizations do you thInk and try to force that term? Will Americans cater to that and be accepting that okay let him call whatever he wants to? Will that happen. I think so not.

[@jasonburgos6638]

Not all americans, just the US people, the rest of American Continent call it Football. Regards.

[@MrMM1007]

Well the rest of the world outside of Iberia and Latin America don't call the entire western hemisphere "America". So if you think Americans have to follow the rest of the world in regard to "Football", then surely the Latin Americans have to follow the rest of the world when naming the continents (north and south). Otherwise, you'd be a hypocritical douchebag, right?

[@ErnestoKub9532]

Let's say what you call football in USA is mainly referred as american football abroad, meaning that's not the real football. To me, using football for a sport that mostly uses hands is inadequate. In the 20's it was clearly set with APFA name but it evolved the wrong way when the name was changed to NFL. Should have been NAFL to make it clear, as football leagues were already existing outside of USA for more than 20 years. Guess that's the main point: us citizens don't care about what's happening abroad. It's was valid at the time and is still true. Anyway was an interesting vid.

[@estelaangeles2346]

I thought chinese invented futbol and other countries call it soccer

[@martinburke362]

Soccer is an English term, used a lot in the 60s and 70s

[@Thursdaym2]

Honestly don't know what the fuss is all about. Long ago we used to sometimes call it soccer or just footy.

[@o.i.c.uvanish9169]

Americans call a baseball championship game the World Series when its play only by Americans. The reek of ignorance is off the chart.

[@gastrickbunsen1957]

Isolationist or arrogance? It's football across the globe. Being an "anorak," I knew the term "soccer" originated here.

[@juanmanueldiazortiz7054]

"American Football" is American Rugby actually. "American Football" is just known and practiced in the US. "Football" is the most popular and practiced sport in the entire world. "American Football" games are played 95% with the hands, so the real name should be "American Handball". True "Football" games are played 95% with the feet. So "American Football" has nothing to do with "Football". Even Rugby is more spectacular and popular in the world than "American Football".

[@MrMM1007]

" True "Football" games are played 95% with the feet". That is not why the word football was created in England. You are trying to retroactively apply a definition of the word "football" that never existed. It only exists today because wierdo soccer fans need an excuse to be mad. Be smarter.

[@mtk3755]

@@MrMM1007 that's why it was created by the english. It existed thats why called it football. Your argument only exists because you mad that Americans have to cater to the world adapt according to it. Stay mad it's football and will stay like that. World doesn't revolve around you neither will.

[@joshvalencia4390]

​@@MrMM1007 these soccer fans truly insufferable

[@AliKaks]

We call it soccer too in my country because rugby league is sometimes called football or footy for short. But I'll call it football if I was in another country that calls it football.

[@wilsonzhang233]

In China, we call football⚽️ and American rugby🏈 as NFL

[@VodeniZeka]

Americans should get over themselves, their football will always come second compared to the real football

[@jacksonsmith4935]

I think you should get over yourself. You sound like a child. The American obsession is honestly super sad. Watch your sport and stfu

[@azizi8921]

Australian also named it soccer. Just imagine, the fact that Australia is in the Asia Football Federation (AFC) where all members in the AFC called it football.

[@MrMM1007]

Would you like to start a list of all the words in Australia that differ from the rest of the Asia Football Federation countries? Because that list would be almost every word in the languages. You are trying to find a problem where there isn't one. Be smarter?

[@ordinaryman8199]

As far as I know, the Australian FA was formerly called the Australian Soccer Association now it has changed its name to Football Australia

[@azizi8921]

@@ordinaryman8199 Since it had joined AFC where all members named it "football", I would like to believe.🙂

[@AntonioAio]

What about the world? name those other countries calling it wat it actually is ;)

[@Rob-ww6nc]

In Australia Soccer is a minor sport. Third behind the biggest AFL Australian football then Rugby league NRL soccer is very big with the girls and kids.. but once they grow up there is nothing in the world that is better than Australian rules football! We have the biggest crowds Per population in the World . Clubs older than man Manchester United Liverpool Chelsea.. the Yankees the Jets All NBL clubs all English football clubs Europe South America..... that are still around pro football and in the top tier league that being the AFL. Geelong football club Melbourne demon's Carlton football club. And others!

[@novacorps2468]

Americans aren't the only ones who call the game soccer. Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand call it soccer also. So actually the UK is the only English speaking, Westernized country that call it football.

[@AntonioAio]

what about the rest of the world? And no, not the whole of south africa.

[@novacorps2468]

@AntonioAio My point is, it's not only an "American" thing to call it soccer. This video makes it seems it's only Americans that call it that.

[@AntonioAio]

@@novacorps2468 What about those6-7 billion people who actually calls it what it is?

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

It's a bit about the fact that whatever football ruleset got popular first in a country they call football.

[@jacksonsmith4935]

@@novacorps2468 soccer is an English word. England and Scotland are the only ones who don’t say soccer and England invented the word

[@andresreal8261]

I'mma start calling American Football "Rugber", I've decided.

[@MrMM1007]

And not a single person in the U.S. (or Canada) will give a sh!t what you call it.

[@andresreal8261]

@@MrMM1007 ... You kinda just cared enough to let me know you don't care, tho'. See? IT WORKS!

[@MrMM1007]

@@andresreal8261 Oooh, you got attention! A little plug of self-esteem for you? Still, nobody cares what you call a sport in your convo, so maybe you ought not to care what Americas call their sport?

[@andresreal8261]

@@MrMM1007 Sheesh... Chill, my dude. It's just a joke... Way to show you don't care ;D

[@dabbiedeejee4804]

Why do americans Call them selfs in NFL, NBA and NML world champions...when They only played teams from the usa?

[@MrMM1007]

They don't. Where did you see that?

[@AdamTheMan1993]

@@MrMM1007 Yeah they do, every time a Super Bowl winner refer themselves as "World Champions" even though it is only palyed in the US

[@MrMM1007]

@@AdamTheMan1993 I don't think the NFL or the average american would ever call them that? Maybe a player would say it, but eht NFL certainly doesn't market it that way. And in the U.S., people would fefer to tham as Super Bowl champions or NFL champs. And I can't find any references to newspapers or the NFL teams referring to themselves as world champs? This might be another case of one nfl player saying "world champions" and then the rest of the world blows it out of proporation and claims that ll of America is doing this. I dont' think it happens very often. You all are so sensitive.

[@chuckyboy6977]

It’s soccer because American’s have a chip on their shoulder because they were British. Cricket and Rugby were played in the USA but the American public didn’t like the British connection, so alternative games were invented, rugby became gridiron, cricket was changed out for baseball which came from the British game rounders and pub games like bat & trap. The pettiness even go to drinks, the US started drinking coffee because the British drank tea. The US call it soccer to just be different, no more reason than that. The game having the name “football “ has nothing to do with kicking the ball unlike many think. The game football has a few titles and phrases attached to it, the beautiful game, the gentleman’s game, A game invented by Gentlemen, played by hooligans. To name a few. Prior to the invention of football by the upperclass gentlemen & Lords of England, the was another ball game played by upperclass & the rich, it was Polo, which was played on horseback. Then came a ball game played on foot, this is where the name comes from, being played on foot not horseback. The name Football come because people play it running around on their feet.

[@MrMM1007]

"The US call it soccer to just be different, no more reason than that." Did you even watch this video? Soccer is a British word. A popular TV show in england is called "Soccer Saturday". Your first paragraph is 100% false - where do you get your information? Your second paragraph is correct, though.

[@mtk3755]

@@MrMM1007 if it was used by brits so much then why football clubs established in 1840-1890s called it football clubs not soccer clubs😂

[@corgg2]

@@mtk3755 Nice cherry picking of your time frame. It wasn't until 1890 that someone wanted to call it soccer.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Are we talking about an american chip or a british chip?

[@chloewilliams1112]

The only thing you seem to have missed off is that in certain schools and amongst a certain class of people in England they will still refer to Rugby as "Rugger". As in, "Let's have a game of rugger". I've even heard badminton described as "a game of badders"! Most English people upon reading this will be able to hear in their head the word rugger spoken in a "posh" , upper class voice and immediately be able to hear "soccer" spoken the same way. I think it was important to the working class (blue collar) North of England followers of the English game that they ensured that they owned the word football and in doing so forever force rugby football, played in private, south of England (mainly) schools to clarify itself and distinguish itself by using the prefix rugby either in conjunction with football or as a stand-alone word. If England ever adopted the name soccer universally, rugby could still call itself football, hence the resistance to it.

[@MrMM1007]

I've always found this debate "soccer vs football" bizarre, especially when it is football fans who aren't from Britain who don't know any of the history. It sounds like you are saying that much of the debate can be based on class friction in Britain?

[@chloewilliams1112]

@@MrMM1007 Not so much now but immediately post WWI and WWII when attendances at football matches in England rocketed I would imagine that the officer classes in the army may have referred to it as soccer and the conscripts to it as football. That may have exaggerated the desire to call it football when stood on the terraces in the post war boom years. Defining themselves as "squaddies" rather than officers. The determination not to call it soccer remains as strong as ever, probably being passed from father to son and rather than the ire being directed at the officers and upper classes anymore (who would long ago have adopted the universal football to describe the sport in the UK) it seems like US citizens who dare to refer to the game as soccer still cause the hackles to rise in an almost instinctive response. As you've no doubt observed!

[@mtk3755]

@@chloewilliams1112 exactly what I'm saying the term soccer might have been made by brits but it was used by elites mostly and it never caught on by the public. The normal public preferred football. That's why even the clubs made by common people had football clubs in their names. Not soccer clubs.

[@alieNussss]

Americans call a sport who play more with hand than with leg football. First of all football became before American Football. Americans always think they know everything. Sorry for my english, i am not english.

[@MrMM1007]

Aussie rules football is older than soccer, so should Association football change their names for the Aussies? You should read the real history of football (and no, it did not always look like soccer. Soccer isn't that old).

[@bimozahidayah]

I am live in south east asia and i only know rugby instead football 😂

[@MrMrgetbad]

Love from Manchester bro👍🏿

[@pinkacademy5232]

As a Brit when I hear “ SOCCER “ I begin to sharpen my most effective sword 🗡 the sword I’ve made the most kills with ….

[@MrMM1007]

How childish of you. Isn't there a popular sports TV programme there called 'Soccer Saturday'? Maybe you are just looking for a fake reason to be mad. Which is kind of sad. There are hundreds of terms that differ between Britain and the U.S. for the same item (lift, flat, lorry, etc.).And if you consider Canada and Ireland and Australia, i bet you would have thousands! But for some reason this one term is what gets you mad? Me doth think you protest too much...

[@mtk3755]

@@MrMM1007 because it means alot for the people not just Britain but all over the world. It's the Americans that need to change not the world. Also it's not a name but emotion not brits but the world and they are very passionate about the game even more than Americans for their game. It's life and death for them.

[@brightburn444]

America is calling 'football' to RUGBY game ... a big name for a regional sport

[@america1832]

AMERICA is a CONTINENT made up of 35 countries and more than 1000 million inhabitants poor stupid ignorant people are pitiful

[@s.c.9107]

USA, the place where football is played with hands.... 😂😂😂

[@Richard66667]

I'm british John Cleese is right why americans call it soccer it's football it doesn't make any sense

[@jankokol9817]

In the Balkans, we call the sport "nogomet" which directly translates "to place/put with leg"

[@vladislav4o2010]

No we dont wtf?

[@jankokol9817]

@@vladislav4o2010 Oh, I sincerely apologize. When mentioning 'the Balkans', I was referencing towards Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia where we use the name "nogomet". Of course, the other Balkan states use a different name for the šport.

[@vladislav4o2010]

@@jankokol9817 umm no... we dont.

[@Ivan80054]

Ne, mi ga zovemo fudbal, to Slovenci i vi ga tako zovete.

[@stevenhoskins7850]

Here's a better question: Why does every other Anglo Nation on the planet AND Ireland use "soccer"? Because the word was exported from England with the rest of the English language during the British diaspora. I pulled up the word "soccer" on the British Newspaper Archive website. The word "soccer" was used 1 MILLION 567 thousand and 54 times since the 19th century, when the sport was created. It fell out of usage in the UK a few decades after the World Cups began in 1930. Coincidence?

[@kpunk]

Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, and Japan use "soccer" interchangeably. For most of them it's prob because they already had their own domestic form of football (Aussie Rules Football, Gaelic football)

[@MrMM1007]

Shhhh...they do not like logic and facts. It interferes with their narrative.

[@stevenhoskins7850]

@@kpunk that's exactly why.

[@corgg2]

Newspaper headlines in England after their 1950 loss to the US said "soccer". The English wanted to culturally distance themselves from soccer because the Americans started to like it when the NASL was at its peak. The Americanness of soccer was starting. The NASL had some different rules that turned them off, and there began the great whitewashing of soccer in England.

[@formularguments7335]

People in Ireland don't really call it soccer anymore. It's probably 1 out of 5 who do. Most call it football nowadays

[@JohnHMarsden]

Another Manchester United fan...enjoyed your video.

[@supersubsoccer]

GGMU! Thanks for watching!

[@mtk3755]

@@supersubsoccer ten hag is doing a good job btw but even he would call it football so i guess you should change your channel to football 🙃

[@Maridun50]

Thanks for this explanation. I always thought the reeason was to annoy the British, because USA was once a british colony. Foe years I've debated the problem with Americans ( I'm Danish) - and they never had any answers, when I asked them why they called a game "football", which started with person kicking an oval ball and then someone else picked it up, stuck it under his arm and started running to put it down at the goal......... Some Americans lost their words - some got mad at me....... In real FOOTBALL - you move the ball around with your feet all the time. What is so hard to get?

[@MrMM1007]

You don't even know why your game of FOOTBALL is called football, so why would you make fun of Americans for not knowing it? The word football has been aroubd for 700 years and there is no evidence it means "using your foot". THere is tons of evidence that the word 'football' means playing ON your feet. For most of history, football games in England have used hands. You clearly haven't bothered to read about this. In ALL forms of football (including American) you move the ball around with your feet. Do you think Americans and Canadians and Australians are crawling on their hands and knees? What a stupid statement. The problem you have (and many other football/soccer fans) is that you believe anything you are told about the game. None of you bother to question what you are told because you desperately want to think you (or your traditions) are superior (or the "true game"). You are not superior than others and your game isn't what you think it is. Oh, and at least the Americans, Australians, and Canadians created their own game. The Dane's just stole one from the English. Sad.

[@Maridun50]

@@MrMM1007 Oh my - you really hit the ceiling here. Watch your blood preasure, mind you. The Danes at least call football by the right name .like the rest of the world. You play football, handball tennis, badmington standing on your feet - however the only game where you MOVE the ball around WITH your feet is of course called football. Handball - where you also stand on your feet - but passes the ball around with your hands - is TA DA - called handball. That is logic, right? Handball was invented by Danes - we will however let you play it also without accusing you of stealing it. Get it now?

[@MrMM1007]

​@@Maridun50 "the only game where you MOVE the ball around WITH your feet is of course called football. " No, it is called Association Football, officially. For ease, it is referred to as just 'football' where it makes sense to use just that word. The world has not always looked like it does now...try and see beyond your own little existence and learn about the past in order to understand the present. Get it now? (jk, you probably will not get it)

[@keithornstead7559]

FOOTBALL should be the real true honest name for SOCCER. While RUSHBALL should be the perfect name for American Football indeed. Makes excellent sense. Play ball with only your feet ( FOOTBALL ); while ( RUSHBALL ) everyone on the field just rush , rush, rush, and rush some more only.

[@CesarManiaX]

Italians call it calcio but nobody complains about that.

[@sezy4709]

because italians are at least have respect and are very good at the sport.... and also they dont have a sport where you throw an egg shaped thing and call that garbage football

[@sohigamer141]

Because people are envy of the USA. That's it. Canada, Australia, New Zealand and many people in Ireland also calls it soccer and yet nobody gets offended. Because their is one simple explanation that people envy the USA and they will found absolute dumb reasons to hate it.

[@sohigamer141]

@@sezy4709 Australians also call it soccer and they also have a sport which has an egg shaped ball and they call it football. Ireland also calls it soccer and they also have a egg shaped ball sport and they call it football as well. Why don't you hate them as well??

[@sezy4709]

@@sohigamer141 ⚽ all am saying is that this is real football and whoever calls and egg shape throw game football is completely out of touch with the real world and has no logic

[@Marina_-_-]

@@sohigamer141 envy? Of what? 😂

[@brando3023]

American people call a game they play their hands... football . In a game, most of the world play with their feet... they call soccceerrrrr

[@MrMM1007]

You didn't watch the video did you? Why are so many soccer fans so f*cking stupid?