Why Is Football Called Soccer In The USA?

[@NameExplain]

Hey guys! There won’t be any videos next week as I’m away but there’ll be videos the week after. See you soon!

[@veetee355]

Ok

[@informallyinfernal9002]

Hey Patrick Nobody in our India calls football as futabol But a great video BTW best of luck for your future endeavors as always

[@patricklo1514]

So what did Indian actually call football?

[@informallyinfernal9002]

Patrick Lo just football Like rest if the world

[@MatthewMcVeagh]

Rugby League vs. Rugby Union? Australian Rules Football? Gaelic Football?

[@abhithp]

No one here in India use the word 'Futabol' we use the word Football

[@parthbonde2106]

ikr

[@wg_spiritomb]

Futa, huh, sounds like a genre that i would never explore.

[@mesobad3211]

Ash Kechum bro why whould you tell that

[@LARAUJO_0]

There are plenty of languages in India and probably at least one of them calls it Futabol

[@rafaelcalvo3516]

futebol is called in Brazil.

[@abrokatec]

American Rugby is a much better name 👏

[@mduardo]

Unitedstatian/USA Rugby 🏈

[@WolverinePete]

We already call it football, so why change?

[@libidum]

@@WolverinePete Because you barely use your feet, and don't tell me it's called football because "the ball is one foot long".

[@WolverinePete]

@@libidum It doesnt matter how much or little its kicked. We have "football" and your other countries have "soccer". We honestly dont care what you call what we play or what you play. Soccer is a British word anyway.

[@teddyayele8273]

Wolverine Pete because we wanna call it how we want

[@StFrancisEnjoyer]

It must be called Football because it is played with the foot and not with the socc

[@ratlinggull2223]

s o c c

[@prinzvonmalaya4966]

Augusto Jr oy vey

[@LARAUJO_0]

What if you're wearing socks?

[@zachrose359]

Sholom

[@jmal]

Some maneuvers in the sport require you to use your shins to hit the ball. Apart from the shin guards, what is it covered in? That's right. A SOCk. Also, if you were to call that game football, use of the hands in throw-ins should be banned, as well as the keeper using their hands, and no contact of the ball with the body or head should be made. So it's only proper to call it SOCCER. Mostly because it pisses you off. And it's easier to rhyme.

[@theJellyjoker]

Football isn't football unless it's football.

[@Kittylover074]

but they wears soccs :O

[@michaelfoye1135]

Touchdown.

[@brantleyhoward5796]

True

[@TijmensAviation]

I’m quite confused after reading this

[@Kreicss]

*MIND BLOWN*

[@jasepoag8930]

So like many English words, the Brits came up with the original word/spelling, then abandoned the original word, and then mock everyone else for still using the original word.

[@strawberry.teapot]

Yeah, the English seem a very cheery and agreeable bunch.

[@thegod4281]

we haven’t abandoned the original word it was ‘association football’ and that was form the upper class who didn’t even liek the game. i’m sure you’ve got class stereotypes in america but over here they toffs and they don’t play it. the whole of the country has used football forever cos we don’t all hve monacles snd top hats

[@Alan_Mac]

Only pathetic thickos and plebs mock people for using 'soccer'. The rest of us don't give a fuck.

[@krup787]

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[@annoyingguyoninternet1631]

You know the name soccer sucks when the country originated no longer use it. Just like imperial system US use it but the country that INVENTED IT no longer use it.

[@citiesskyscrapers4561]

Handegg looks like a great name.

[@anglomapper6895]

LOOKS

[@StarlightNightflame]

It's what I've always called it :) Makes more sense.

[@bobbyhill3447]

povertyball looks like a good name for soccer.

[@AF911vids]

Bobby Hill cringiest joke

[@bobbyhill3447]

Afham mk normies using cringe. Yikes

[@markdp1983]

Soccer is a British term still occasionally used there for the sport they invented..... The British word "Soccer" was later used in the USA and Australia because those countries already had their own versions of football by the time Association Football arrived there..... Its not hard!!!

[@thatbg3357]

@Mark DP you will never find a British person who will cal it soccer u Twat

[@theterrar3566]

@@thatbg3357Lots of Rugby fans call it soccer. Only insecure fairies get offended when someone calls their favourite sport soccer which is a right word

[@thatbg3357]

tt btw, i didn’t get offended i just said no British Person calls it soccer which is true

[@theterrar3566]

@@thatbg3357 But they do. When England won the world cup the newspapers said they won the soccer world cup. Read any british newspaper prior to 2000s and you'll get what I'm saying. Plenty of rugby fans call it soccer as well. No one in Britain had any problem regarding the word 'soccer' until a generation of butthurt British kids chose to get offended over someone calling 'potayto' 'patahto'. Seriously, these guys sound like feminists arguing over equal pay.

[@thatbg3357]

tt England won the World cup last time in 1966 So maybe a few people and a couple of newspapers called it soccer back then but nobody does anymore, I have friends who play rugby and they call this ⚽️ football, I know that all of them hate the American one though cuz they say it’s rugby for pussies

[@hijtohema]

Association Football still is the official name for the game. The acronym of its governing body FIFA stands for Federation Internationale de Football Association, the International Federation of Association Football

[@deaundrebondscheeks2]

@Spiros Pa Nope, I call it FIFA like the rest of the world.

[@deaundrebondscheeks2]

@Spiros Pa But Soccer is a shortened version of the full name of the sport I'm pretty sure the video explained it. But if you're still gonna complain about the name then this conversation will be very short.

[@haseebpavaratty6249]

@Spiros Pa 🤣

[@_Jake.From.Statefarm_]

@@deaundrebondscheeks2 So you like to call it by it's abbreviated name, but soccer is off limits? Cause that makes sense?

[@maxropercalvo6132]

FOOTBALL has been called FOOTBALL since it was created in ENGLAND until today 2023. 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 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.

[@phantomgold3255]

*Imagine a sport where you use hands and squares but it is called "football"*

[@fxrnweh-hd5dq]

Ikr It makes no sense lol

[@phantomgold3255]

Guys stop, i wasn't talking about football or soccer, look *"squares"* read bruh, i was making up another sport

[@phantomgold3255]

@@Jacob-hm1th but its not a ball

[@phantomgold3255]

@Remus *"you guys are weird"* you guys??? You we're talking to 1 person

[@phantomgold3255]

@Remus im not american you stupid idiot 😂😂

[@queenfanatic195]

In Ireland, "football" to us means Gaelic football (which also uses hands) and so despite being so close to the UK, we say soccer too

[@lulu-ex2zg]

Orlagh Nic Fhionnbhairr soccer is a better name lol

[@kaizer521]

Never Had a life not really football you play with your feet so football is way better name

[@workspaceofduc]

@@lulu-ex2zg Soccer is the name for suckers. It's football by the way

[@spudson60fps35]

@@lulu-ex2zg In your fuxking Dream.american Kid

[@spudson60fps35]

@@lulu-ex2zg your username Matches Get A Life And Prove A Point

[@kjenk19]

Australia commonly calls the sport soccer because we already have 3 other sports called football. Aussie rules, rugby league and rugby union are all referred to as football.

[@SteveHuggsYT]

Kobi Jenkins how is Aussie rules played differently?

[@TehStormOG]

Scariest Rogue it's a totally separate sport that one guy just invented. It's very different from other forms of football

[@benwhite6261]

Scariest Rogue firstly it’s played on a much larger oval, of which the dimensions change but around 170m by 130m. In Australian Football, you can use your hands, and the main object is too kick the ball through the large sticks at each end, scoring a goal. To move the ball you can kick (most common) or punch the ball. The sport has no offside, so players line up all across the ground. This makes the game fairly free flowing. The sport is full contact, so tackling and bumping is allowed.

[@zulphur]

Footie

[@JustinThomas7]

Also our team are the Socceroos. Footballeroos doesn't really have the same ring to it.

[@HP3Lover]

Also in Australia “football” is a completely different sport from soccer and gridiron

[@kpopsauce1697]

HP3Lover awesome! Ive seen it

[@markaragnos1796]

Afl

[@bankvfx8887]

Corvo Attano HAHAHHAHA! AFL is for pussies mate, watch NRL.

[@reidmulligan8478]

Well your dumb

[@diegogonzalezvazq]

That acc sounds rlly cool

[@js_4366]

It’s football lads

[@venusxaino]

Voetje ballen

[@aucore3634]

Yah...

[@veetee355]

jalkapallo

[@alaoisemcgrath3647]

No soccer

[@js_4366]

Alaoise Mcgrath American football is hand egg

[@jecos1966]

In Australia we call American football Gridion

[@matnat21]

jecos jecos that name is 1000x better tbh

[@workspaceofduc]

In most of the world, we call American football Handegg

[@spudson60fps35]

@@workspaceofduc How About HandEballed

[@deaundrebondscheeks2]

@@workspaceofduc Dumb name

[@workspaceofduc]

@@deaundrebondscheeks2 That's my name in CSGO account, any problem?

[@kenmograd2009]

Historically, the name “gridiron” is used interchangeably for the game of North American Football. This stems back when you had three downs to move the ball five yards. The field was patterned in a grid-like pattern with lines at every five yards along the width and the length of the field. This pattern remained until the early 1920s, well after the introduction of the forward pass changed the amount of yards to gain to ten (and in the USA, the addition of a fourth down).

[@Ranakade]

Gridiron sounds more epic than American football imo 🤣

[@enriquegonzales8186]

@@Ranakade I prefer gridiron too and hope it changes to it with time.

[@balaam_7087]

I’m not a sports guy at all, but I found this vid fascinating and hilarious to boot. “Hand-egg” LOL

[@bobbyhill3447]

Balaam _ soccer= povertyball

[@AF911vids]

Bobby Hill handegg is better

[@bobbyhill3447]

Afham mk poverty ball is better. Poor peoples game

[@metpach]

Bobby Hill it really is, the only reason soccer or football or futbul or whatever is as popular as it is, is cause it a sport that the poorest of the poor can play. They will literally kick rags and rocks round barefoot.

[@AF911vids]

EpicJoe P so your point is..

[@john11719]

Yet other non English speaking places call it closer to soccer, like Japan, Sakkā which is why I am rooting for them

[@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions]

john11719 Someone should make a list of how every language on Earth calls this sport.

[@john11719]

You mean this? i.imgur.com/2GHdRDg.jpg

[@garrusn7702]

Read This They still call it soccer.

[@elenabeatricemartinelli8426]

we call it "calcio" in Italian (cul-cho, sorry but I don't know the official phonetic symbols). and calcio means kick. so it translates to kickball.

[@tanyathon7616]

because they where isolated except for dutch a few hundred years back and then the americans came before engeland

[@Donal01]

Lots of people in Ireland also call it soccer because we have our own sport called football too

[@3dsaulgoodman43]

@@akulakaboom It's more known as Gaelic football, but maybe Irish football is acceptable.

[@levi2732]

i love ireland just for the gingers girls

[@K_ingh16]

@@levi2732 and little green elfs

[@ThisOldHat]

FALSE: The name "football" comes from the fact that the game is played on foot, as opposed to horseback. It was commonly used to refer to a variety of games played by the peasant classes in europe, since the aristocracy tended to prefer games played on horseback.

[@SquirrelArmyStudios2015]

So why isn't Polo called Horseball?

[@LARAUJO_0]

That still means the name comes from using your foot

[@TehStormOG]

Nope your wrong.

[@artv.9989]

Yeah Ive noticed this guy doesnt go into too much detailed research on the topics hes talking about, probably just reads about it on wikipedia for 10 minutes, also LARAUJO, not really, if thats so then why was rugby also called football?

[@Rogerioapsandrade]

Art V. I wonder also. He never said the term gridion football, which was the real term for any kind of football that derivates from rugby, like American, Gaelic, Canadian, Australian football

[@shoutinghorse]

The game has historically always been called soccer in Ireland too, only recently is football being used more which probably comes from the TV influence of the English Premier League. Interestingly the New Zealand national team have officially changed from soccer to football and are now called 'New Zealand Football' (NZF) The 'er' prefix comes from Oxford university and is known as an 'Oxforderism' and most probably has its roots from slang of the public school system in England (private fee paying schools) The term Rugger was often used for Rugby although that seems to have gone out of fashion nowadays. There is some thought that 'erisms' originated at Rugby school which would actually mean that Soccer was invented by Rugby.

[@Jiar14]

Bud it's called football ⚽️ not soccer

[@Keli_mafuyu]

​@@Jiar14it's just cultural difference, both football and soccer are officially accepted in different countries

[@Jiar14]

@aratakiitto2387 no it ain't bro you only pick one side and that's it

[@Fassislau]

I cannot believe you didn't mention the italian name "Calccio" and its origins!! I think it's one of the few countries with a different name for football!

[@MsMinoula]

It's not like he reviewed all languages with a different word for football, he concentrated on the English speaking countries and he just highlighted it is mostly football around the world.

[@quakquak6141]

as an italian I always found it weird that other non english speaking countries usually don't have a unique name for football but just a variation of the english term (btw it's spelled calcio, the "i" is muted, is there to signify that the previous "c" must be pronounced like in chair and not like in cat)

[@neventomicic330]

Nogomet in Slavic countries. Noga= foot, met= play with a ball (like Ruko-met= handball).

[@hatzisn]

Why is it called calcio in Italian? What is the origin of this word? In greece we call it ποδόσφαιρο (podòsfero) which is exactly the same term as in english as πόδι/pòdi=foot and σφαίρα/sfèra is tranlated as sphere and in this case it is used with the meaning ball.

[@hatzisn]

Got that... It comes from the verb calciare which means to kick and calcio is the noun. Vero?

[@dimesonhiseyes9134]

It seems to me colonialist britts are really the only ones that are concerned that some countries use the word soccer. It just baffles them that not everyone talks exactly the same way they do.

[@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions]

+Dimes On His Eyes "Colonialist Britts"?

[@a2falcone]

Almost the whole world uses the term football, or terms with similar sound or meaning. And in all those countries people find it funny when it's called soccer and other sports that use mostly the hands are called football.

[@galanie]

Yeah Americans quit listening to what England wanted us to do in the 1770s and they expect us to change our world to suit them NOW?

[@isaacthegoat1432]

@@galanie No one said that.

[@isaacthegoat1432]

It was disowned in England and what they call football isn't really football.

[@pualamnusantara7903]

Let's call it "Kickball".

[@shorpy3407]

Already taken

[@jonadabtheunsightly]

Kickball is another sport, which until recently (circa 1990) was much more widely known and played in America than soccer. Anyway, the name "soccer" originates in England, so it's rather hypocritical of Brits to complain about it being called that. Also, the "foot" in football is a third of a yard, so it only makes sense for sports where that's actually a significant aspect of the game. HTH.HAND.

[@hoangkimviet8545]

I agree :-0

[@jizzuschrist6252]

since we living in the future lets call it "GOAL 2000" all in caps

[@sinoroman]

GOOOOAAAAALLLLball

[@shaungordon9737]

I believe Ireland also calls it soccer. The UK is probably the only English-speaking country that calls it Football The only people in Australia who call it 'Football' are those who play it, but most of the public still calls it soccer

[@LarkinsDeLaMare]

It's funny how Australia's national teams nickname is the Socceroos

[@isaacthegoat1432]

What a load of bs.

[@GgTTV828]

@@isaacthegoat1432 yes, keep crying.

[@ashknoecklein]

I'm from New England, where people have been into soccer for quite a while. Whenever a British person makes fun of me for calling it soccer, I'm like "but it's YOUR word!" lol

[@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions]

Yeah!🤣

[@Lorem_64]

Yeah but they gave up that word decades ago.

[@dmadalengoitia]

weehawk you mean football?

[@RyanControl]

So everyone needs to be just like the Brits? This is the 21st century. Haven't we realized by now that cultural and linguistic diversity are a good thing?

[@NikhileshSurve]

weehawk Yes but a word by elites not the common people lol.

[@kaits9026]

I wrote a paper in college about the history of Soccer/Football and it covered everything that was in this video. I'm happy I'm not the only nerd interested in this topic. You summed this topic quite nicely in under 5 mins. Well done.

[@nico0826]

Damn could you send me your paper, i would love to read it ? (I know I’m 4 years late, still hope you see my comment)

[@Rob-ww6nc]

What about Australia? What do you know?

[@jyrki21]

Relatedly: American football in its origins resembled what is now called Canadian football much more closely (field size, number of downs, etc.). The rules were set by teams from McGill University (in Montreal) and Harvard (in Massachusetts) and only later diverged from this in the U.S., in part to account for the smaller field that happened to be available.

[@kieranfitz]

You left Ireland off the list of English speaking countries that call it soccer.

[@RuiOliveiraTV]

Dear god Ireland too? i.i

[@TomskyB]

Please don't say even the Irish call it Soccer.

[@seanmcmanus4701]

Rui Oliveira We have a different sport we use the name football for GAA

[@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions]

+Kieran Fitzgerald Isn't Patrick from Northern Ireland?

[@turtlevader]

What would Northern Ireland even count as? It’s in the UK but it’s also in Ireland! Sockfoot?

[@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot]

Then in Canada, we took a game Americans usually call kickball, but because it's basically baseball and you kick said ball _like in a game we called soccer_ , everywhere I ever saw it played we called it *soccer baseball!* Because that's not confusing.

[@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions]

+Artpholomule Nutt Really? Never heard of the term until today, but then again I've only ever visited Ontario.

[@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot]

Opiniones de JACC's Opinions I live in Ontario. Ottawa to be exact. Every school I went to growing up (in the public elementary schools) called it that. Wasn't until I saw American tv I found out people called it something else.

[@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions]

+Artpholomule Nutt When were you born? In the 80's or 90's? I mean even in the 1990's the world was pretty connected and the U.S. dominates the media.

[@charlesgriffin7708]

I live in Toronto, and I called it that when I was in elementary school around 2006-2010, still would call it that today, and my younger brother who's in elementary school right now calls it soccer baseball.

[@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions]

+Charles Griffin That's very interesting that such isolation can still be encountered, I mean the fact that is still exist even to this day is very intriguing to me. Which means even with such a strong cultural hegemony the States have, native Canadian terminology can still exist for things in the same language.

[@monnetheepicgamer]

As an American who calls it “Soccer” I still find “Football” better. (IM TALKING ABOUT THE ONE WHERE YOU ACTUALLY USE YOUR FOOT) The Football in my country should be called “Archball” because your throwing in into an arch.

[@franzfanz]

In New Zealand soccer is starting a slow decline in usage and football is becoming much more common. A lot of this had to do with our team's incredible run in the 2010 FIFA World Cup where we remained the only country to be undefeated. Yes, even the eventual winners of the tournament, Spain, couldn't match this amazing feat. Also there's been a recent influx of English immigration which might also be a contributing factor.

[@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions]

But, do Kiwis call another sport football? I mean I know you guys mainly as a Rugby nation, but Australia has several "forms" of football and Gridiron Football the other common name of that sport played in North America, so do you guys like to call Rugby "Football"? Because, otherwise why was Soccer more common?

[@franzfanz]

We tend to call rugby union just rugby and rugby league is rugby. The governing body used to called the New Zealand Rugby Football Union so I assume in the past calling it football was more common than today. This could also explain why we're calling it something different now.

[@Rob-ww6nc]

That is because New Zealand play's the other English second choice game of Rugby union! Soccer Australia is trying to call itself football but Australia has Australian football which is very different to all the other football codes in the world. Except Irish football Gaelic football. Australian football has the biggest crowds Per population. AFL.

[@Rob-ww6nc]

​​@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinionsagain as an Australian the answer is easy! New Zealand don't have thier own football code. They play Rugby union an English game. Australia has a huge football code invented in Australia with huge crowd! Next popular game is Englands third choice Rugby league. But Australian football is in every state of S. Australia.. even the two states where league is the most popular! As an example of why it is so popular. On a bitterly cold raining day. Two teams that go back to the 1800s had a crowd of 100.000 people for a normal season match no international no final.. but the football code that draws the biggest crowds for just club football! Melbourne Demon's v Collingwood Magpies 1958. A couple of people short of 100.000!

[@habilsubarqah]

Actually, American Football is not Rugby Football but Gridiron Football. They have different rules, size of pitch, shape of ball, shape of goals, and of course costumes.

[@ravenlord4]

Japan also calls it soccer (サッカー ) ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/サッカー日本代表

[@thatbg3357]

@raven lord no because japanese is a completely different language

[@workspaceofduc]

Dude. There are lots of Japanese people call it futtoboru which means football

[@deaundrebondscheeks2]

@@thatbg3357 Dude, I saw you on another video shit-talking Americans because we have a different word when referring to your 'Sport' aka Soccer. Lmao. Now you're making excuses for why Japan isn't at fault for calling it 'Soccer' as well. Seems like You just don't like powerful nations and also the fact that not a lot of Americans like your sport. Well, bitch at China because they don't fucking like Soccer as well.

[@KuyaBJLaurente]

In the Philippines, we are adopting the term "football" in colloquial context. Thanks to some Filipino-European footballers that re-popularized the sport in our country + our Southeast Asian neighbors (like Malaysia and Indonesia) call them football in English anyway.

[@greenturtlgaming2554]

English people born after WW2: “That’s not true! That’s impossible!”

[@Belboz99]

The "er" suffix is common among Germanic languages, as "er" means "he". So, "Baker" is "he who bakes". Other old-fashioned names like Steiner would be "he who works with stone". And of course, "hamburger" refers to "he who is from Hamburg", and that's why we called them Hamburgers, because some guys from Hamburg created them. I almost wonder if the usage by the elites was used to denote someone as being particularly unique in some way. For example, in modern English we say "The Oprah", as a way to signify how she is singularly unique. And now people say "The Donald".

[@mojojim6458]

Dan O'Connell Ivana, his first, Czech wife, started calling him The Donald decades ago. So, I don't think it's just a Germanic language thing.

[@maxropercalvo6132]

FOOTBALL has been called FOOTBALL since it was created in ENGLAND until today 2023. 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 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.

[@loranddeka]

This question has been banging around in my head since my high school Spanish class, thanks for giving me the answer.

[@catief1031]

That's for the video! I had heard a brief explanation of the name "soccer" back when I was a child (an adult was explaining it to someone else and I overheard), but I could never quite remember all the detail.

[@alvitorifqirajendra]

British : Football Spanish : Futbol German : Fußball Indonesia = Sepakbola (ikr it sounds weird. It means : Sepak= Kick, Bola = Ball. So, it could be translated as Kick ball / Football)

[@Farhan-mn1fr]

Malaysia: Bola Sepak

[@Hm_649]

All country different ok?

[@Hm_649]

Lingardinho are you dumb clearly saying you two

[@icarom2512]

Portuguese: Futebol

[@phantomgold3255]

Shut up

[@anthonylong9067]

The awkward moment when someone from the UK confirms the word soccer was invented in the UK and also confirms that other countries call it soccer besides the US. Some people just dont understand that

[@userlol3644]

Yet 10 teams in the MLS have ‘fc’ in their club names

[@neereh7800]

User Lol my middle school training shirt had “football club” on it too

[@userlol3644]

Nee Reh aha

[@chidumebiarukwe6436]

Yes and the word has been dropped by everyone else and you continue to use it

[@anthonylong9067]

Chidumebi Arukwe not really.

[@AbedWinger]

It's gridiron football. There's no reason we can't bring gridiron back into formal usage.

[@forkyicicle8904]

Alright, here's my suggestion. There are tonnes of different codes of football and to insist that only one code can call itself football is absurd. So call every type of football "football" whenever there is no ambiguity. Say for instance an American football player asking his fellow teammate when the next training session is would use "football". When there is ambiguity, such as asking "Which do you prefer, Association football or Gaelic football?" then these shortened names could be used: Association football - soccer American football - Yankee rules Australian football - Aussie rules Rugby football - Rugby Gaelic football - same Canadian football - same Winchester football - Winchester Harrow football - Harrow Eton field football - Eton field Eton wall football - Eton wall

[@frasstvhs6141]

Official name football world Cup Olympiad

[@forkyicicle8904]

Frass Tvhs Wait sorry could you please elaborate? I don't get what you mean.

[@user-gk3bb4sl4v]

American Football should just be called Armoured Rugby

[@Mannydejesushernandez]

When I say football I’m referring to “soccer” when I’m talking about the nfl I’m calling it American football

[@ca_marchant86]

In Mexico they call it futbol, in the rest of Spanish speaking countries they call it fútbol (there’s a difference in pronunciation).

[@ca_marchant86]

e # bien por vos campeón

[@casper6405]

Everyone in the world: Its Football Its Celsius Its school US: its soccer Its fahrenheit Its shooting range

[@Nostalgic_4_Disaster]

Tell that to Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Comoros, India (Telugu and Karnataka), Singapore, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, North Africa, Japan, and Korea.

[@plfaproductions]

Only Canada and Australia of that list use soccer seriously, football is more common in most of those SPECIALLY JAPAN (I know 9 Japanese imigrants and they confirm that they never use soccer) and in Canada and Australia they don't use football to American fake football either because they got their own knock-offs, just accept you guys can't steal the name of the most popular sport in the world and move on

[@ryanmccartney244]

Handegg! Oh my God, how funny! You really got me! Now that I have seen the light, I have gone ahead and thrown my coffee maker away and bought a tea pot. Now I can say "football" just like a British person. It's always been my dream to speak just like a British person but I didn't know how. Thank you, my British friends.

[@Viking_Creation]

What???

[@nazeemtrump2820]

Now you need to lose weight to become British.

[@dinnerboons1504]

@@nazeemtrump2820 The UK isn’t much better off in weight than America.

[@plfaproductions]

I actually think is people assuming those complaining about it are British, I'm Brazilian and get annoyed when freedomland people try to impose their inferior sport that they are the only ones who care about as football, it came after real football and doesn't even use feet why the hell would it be the true football, call it anything else but that ain't football and calling it football is objectively wrong

[@plfaproductions]

​@@dinnerboons1504it is, Britain isn't good in weight terms but usa is absurd

[@hoangkimviet8545]

- American football plays by hands. - Others of the world: Football by feet. So, the inclusion is America is unique :-0

[@zoofan9280]

Hoàng Kim Việt American football is just cowards rugby

[@Alluminati666]

Hoàng Kim Việt that means Americans have less IQ

[@stargasior]

Canadian Football and there is also Aussie Rules Football. Both have roots from Rugby Football...

[@mikespearwood3914]

stargasior Australian Football is it's own game, most closely resembling Gaelic Football, where a hybrid game has been devised where Australia and Ireland compete on a regular basis. It has no affiliation or origins from rugby.

[@jizzuschrist6252]

well they also uses pounds, fahrenheit, inches, month/day/year, ounces.. fkn twats

[@apophisstr6719]

Additional info: Football in Chinese is 足球, 足 is foot, and 球 is ball. While strangely, in Japanese, they commonly use the word サッカー (sakka-), which is the katakana version of soccer.

[@user-yf1uo5qw2v]

Soccer/Football in Korean 축구 Chookgu That means like Soccer than Football.

[@hyosungg_]

UK: ⚽ it's a football US: NOO IT'S A SOCCER THIS IS FOOTBALL 🏈 UK: ⚽ it's a football The world: yeah, we know

[@useruseruser674]

Umm well most of the developped European countries use football to call the sport called football and use a form of association football for the barely sport called soccer

[@Seba-le7mb]

@@useruseruser674 i'm having a stroke

[@bowskee]

@@useruseruser674 u gave me a headache

[@useruseruser674]

@@bowskee y'know outside of UK being a soccer player is just as valid of a job like instagram comedian, since soccer players have no real athletic capability and outside to the coaching staff and the gm are usually all dumb

[@bowskee]

@@useruseruser674 what u said was completely wrong. Soccer players have insane athleticism (cristiano, adama, mbappe, ibra), some others have amazing skill and talent (messi, neymar, ronaldinho). "Football" requires as much work as any other sport.

[@JasonPloeger]

You just said that the first version of football (mob) used hands... you call it football because it is a game played on foot (as opposed to on horse). Just as American, Australian, Canadian, Gaelic, and Rugby football are played on foot. See "The Ball is Round" for a good history of the codes of football.

[@tanyathon7616]

the first version used both hands and foot

[@wazmarwa164]

@@tanyathon7616 he def does not know what he had in hus mind

[@maxropercalvo6132]

FOOTBALL has been called FOOTBALL since it was created in ENGLAND until today 2023. 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 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.

[@FantasticMrE]

Fun fact for anyone that isn’t into American Football (or American Hand Egg) and/or doesn’t know much about it. The kicking parts of an American Football game are actually statistically the largest teller of who will most likely win the game as kicking the ball during special teams plays (with your foot) largely determines the position and distance in which the opposing team must advance the ball. Also, field goals (which are also kicked with the foot) will frequently determine the outcome of an American Football game due to the fact that they can be used for easy points at long distances and they also give an opportunity to kick the ball to the other team (which is once again, using the foot) to determine the opposing team’s field position. Field goals and kickoffs are both the statistically most important factors for winning an American Football game, both using the foot!

[@blogsanjay1031]

"...where the leader of the losing team would be sacrificed" lol and people think we're living in the last days

[@Goonwithatireiron823]

The game of football does not use feet to kick the ball, however you are constantly carrying the ball across the field on foot, which originally is how football was played in the US, with no passing, eventually the added passes in the game bc it spread players out more and reduced the risk of injury. But none the less, it is a game where the ball is carried on foot, the name football works. However there are better names that could have worked better maybe.

[@ОлексійКупранець]

Well, the actual football sport is much better for the name football. Because 1: the ball is an actual BALL. 2: you use your feet almost exclusively

[@RyanControl]

The question to be answered is not why Americans and the British have a different preferred term for the game being played in the World Cup, but why so many Brits seem to get so rabid about the topic whenever it comes up online. It is as if they are unwilling to accept that fact that there are different dialects in the word.

[@boutdacheck6601]

Americans call it fooball but they play it with their hands

[@fxrnweh-hd5dq]

Yeah It makes no sense lol

[@S1_2025-YT]

@@fxrnweh-hd5dq handegg is suitable.

[@S1_2025-YT]

They should just call it *handegg*

[@DailyQuranRecitation1234]

🇬🇧: Football 🌍: Football 🇺🇸: Soccer 🇦🇺: Soccer 🇨🇦: Soccer

[@jorgelopez8486]

🇮🇹 Calcio

[@joaquingonzalez834]

ireland calls it soccer too, even if its not used that much nowadays from what i gathered

[@oisinmccarthy8717]

@@joaquingonzalez834 no most irish people still say soccer. Only in Dublin many people say football

[@proudamerican183]

@@jorgelopez8486 Interesting history.

[@Kieran66]

@@oisinmccarthy8717 more like all of leinster say football, and most of ulster too, which are the two provinces with the highest population.

[@MrKenichi22]

@3:20 From what I know, American Rules Football used the words interchangeably and it is either because the desire to identify with the rich (only hearing Soccer and preferring that) or because the colleges eventually followed Harvards game which became American Football as Harvard preferred Rugby over Soccer and adapted American Football from Rugby.

[@1notredamefightingirishfan12]

It's funny how Europeans get so triggered when people call it soccer when the British invented it

[@bakedbeans5494]

The British gained logic, America didn't.

[@1notredamefightingirishfan12]

@@bakedbeans5494 America gets an unpredictable, constant thrilling moments sport, British doesn't

[@thomsboys77]

@@1notredamefightingirishfan12No one cares about American sport apart from the Yanks

[@1notredamefightingirishfan12]

@@thomsboys77 no one here cares about soccer

[@plfaproductions]

I actually think is people assuming those complaining about it are British, I'm Brazilian and get annoyed when freedomland people try to impose their inferior sport that they are the only ones who care about as football, it came after real football and doesn't even use feet why the hell would it be the true football, call it anything else but that ain't football and calling it football is objectively wrong

[@Nick-kz6dg]

The funny thing in Australia, we call it "soccer" and our national team is called the "Socceroos" but the governing body is called "Football Federation Australia". Also, unlike America, at least in Aussie rules football you actually kick the ball...

[@mikespearwood3914]

The name change to "Football Federation Australia" (from "Soccer Australia") was part of an aggressive strategy to lift the standings of the sport in Australia, and try to claim the name "football" in Australian sport. It was also at the time the weak NSL was dismantled to be replaced by the A-League.

[@AzureKite]

In American football you kick the ball too... in fact if your team sucks you kick it a lot.

[@BrandonjSlippingAway]

It's not a 'funny thing', it was a very deliberate move to replace the old Soccer Australia and start a process by the FFA soccer figures to officially remove the word out of the sport in Australia. It's a completely top-down orientated model by the FFA, you won't see or hear the word 'soccer' in any of their official releases, broadcasts or affiliated leagues, despite the word being very much a prominent part of Australian vocab.

[@mikespearwood3914]

Azure Kite I think he means in a general sense as part of the game. The only time they kick in American Football is specifically just to kick for goals or to kick for territory when the tackle count has run out, so essentially the same as Rugby League.

[@BrandonjSlippingAway]

Everyone knows the ball is kicked in American football, the point is that it's kicked far, far less than basically every sport called football.

[@rivertrash9862]

0:10 Coincidentally that description also fits perfectly with American football. 11 players on each side, questionable chants and the occasional streaker.

[@jayg1438]

Some fun theories I have heard and that have been presented by numerous game historians. Football in all of it's forms was not named as such because it was a game where the ball was kicked with the feet. It belied class distinctions going back to feudalism. European armies were divided by soldiers fighting on Horse or those fighting on Foot. Horse being comprised of the nobility and elite, foot being comprised of the peasants and conscripts. Football was a catch all for the games the lower classes played with a ball by players on foot. Horse sports like Polo and Steeple were played by the elites. If the name of the game came from kicking the ball with the foot, why not just call it kickball? Forms of 'football' where the ball was advanced with the hands and or feet were popular by the 19th century in colleges like Rugby. By the 1800s football was most often played by colleges in the UK. Games would be played by the rules preferred by the host college. Colleges like Eton preferred advancing the ball by kicking it. Rugby preferred rules where the ball is advanced using the hands. Eton rules football would become known as Association Football and Rugby style rules as Rugby Football. This is where I have heard derivations on the birth of 'Soccer' as a name. Scores were posted in newspapers where the amount of print cost money, so abbreviations were used. Rubgy Football was shortened to Rugby or RUG. This left a conundrum for Association Football. No self respecting Victorian would use the word ASS in a newspaper, or discuss ASS scores! My word! So the name was shortened to SOC. Then as is common the ER was added and it became known as Soccer.

[@johnbauer7234]

soccer sounds ugly, only the yankees call it that, in the rest of the world it is football

[@thevannmann]

@@johnbauer7234 Did you not watch the video, idiot?

[@AsiaMinor12]

​@@johnbauer7234 if you ignore the 200 million other people on the planet that call it soccer lol.

[@johnbauer7234]

@@AsiaMinor12 Yes, and you are forgetting about South America, Central America, Mexico, Europe, Africa, Oceania and Asia, China, Korea. all over the world, removing the USA, they call Football the king of sports.

[@johnbauer7234]

@@AsiaMinor12 those 200 million that you say against the rest of the world are nothing, wee lad🇬🇧

[@Rakonax]

Handegg!

[@kosukemiura1226]

XIDNAF

[@admiralaokiji7889]

Handegg is not as catchy as football.

[@Rakonax]

but it isn't used for an other sport already

[@admiralaokiji7889]

Read This a sports name doesnt have to directly describe what they do. If it did cricket would be a really weird sport involving insects.

[@bobbyhill3447]

Remember Americans call their shitty sport povertyball

[@kyrgyzjeff4550]

Awesome vid man! May you never run out of “names” to cover!

[@rasapplepipe]

No mention of Canadian or Australian Football.

[@benseac]

Canadian Handegg

[@deaundrebondscheeks2]

@@benseac There goes a moronic response.

[@benseac]

@@deaundrebondscheeks2 Yep. I hope you enjoyed it.

[@deaundrebondscheeks2]

@@benseac Nope, I clearly didn't and now you're fucking blocked by me lol now fuck off.

[@Gallalad1]

The soccer rule also applies to Ireland

[@maxropercalvo6132]

FOOTBALL has been called FOOTBALL since it was created in ENGLAND until today 2023. 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 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.

[@parker_aug2]

Really interesting to learn that these three popular sports originated from the same game.

[@plfaproductions]

⚽️ is the only globaly popular, the other ones aren't that popular by comparison

[@mexicancactus624]

Even in Greek the sport is called is ποδό-(σφαιρο) pronunciation=podósfairo ποδό=(foot) σφαιρο=(ball)

[@abrokatec]

Mexico’s pronunciation sounds the same it’s just spelled different!

[@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions]

+Andrea Brokate We transliterated it. The same was done with _béisbol._ Also is the same in all Spanish-speaking countries which I'm not sure why he didn't say that.😑

[@fordtransit7948]

En México 🇲🇽 lo pronunciamos sin el acento en la u porque se escucha sudamericano.

[@muamerblazevic1837]

I am still confused why football. You know... Foot... Ball... They use neither. And when someone says football for european football they say "no it's not football it's soccer Americans have football" and I'm like 😕❓❓❓

[@oussematrabelsi9429]

Did you even watch the video. It's called football because it's played on foot and not on horse

[@fortunecookie5459]

2:02 Americans still don't get that xD

[@journeythroughtherails5294]

Stereotypes-

[@xanayanir7471]

Lol true 😂😂💯🏆

[@G_Diddler]

Salty Americans

[@joaquingonzalez834]

and i still got it as an american...

[@philmccracken179]

But you don’t only use your foot. You use your knee chest and head sometimes. It actually should be called nohandsball

[@auradone8127]

Football=Like Soccer=Comment

[@sans.2709]

Soccer is Football ya stupid idiot! You can go f*** your Handegg.

[@IloveHamberger]

Why does everyone say they almost never use the legs? Doesnt every player stand and run, while every player who can't is taken off of the field? Regardless of how much the ball is kicked you still need your legs to run around to play

[@TheCsel]

Well football is also played ‘on foot’ as opposed to horseback sports like polo

[@CamHarrisVlogs]

4:18 did anyone else see Hugh Jass

[@kgm4556]

That’s funny the “ER” thing in Upoer Class England. In Canada, that is extremely common to give nicknames like that.

[@bars3543]

just call the "american football" rugby

[@CallanKilderry]

That's offensive to Rugby

[@ses694]

no Its too diferent

[@ses694]

no Should call it "hand egg"

[@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions]

The other common name for the sport is gridiron football.

[@DAK4Blizzard]

I have 4 suggestions that I think sound less silly than hand egg: 1. Downball -- There are 4 downs and a touchdown 2. Tackleball -- Tackles play a key role in game play (and 2 offensive positions are named tackle) 3. Scrimmageball -- Many of the positions are named "back" (quarterback, halfback, fullback, linebacker) due to their respect to the line of scrimmage 4. Backball -- For the same reason as Scrimmageball Touchball technically works (touchdown and touchback), but from that perspective I think Tackleball sounds better. Yes, the ball is shaped like an egg, but it is a ball nonetheless, and eggs aren't an official shape. The official shape is vesica piscis, with the simpler Italian name of mandorla (meaning almond). So actually, it could be called hand almond.

[@username65585]

Football is called football because it is played *on* foot. That is opposed to horse back sports like polo. Shame there was no mention of Aussie Rules Football, the best football.

[@majan6267]

nice, after the last really bad video this one is a breath of fresh air, good work

[@JoeYabukii]

where the fuck was usa when football created

[@philmccracken179]

Soccer created 1863. American football created 1869. The USA was a complete country when kickball started

[@plfaproductions]

​@@philmccracken179actually no, true football ⚽️ was around sinse the middle ages

[@philmccracken179]

@@plfaproductions yes I know, back in Africa they would kick the heads around of fellow Africans they beheaded. Sure if you wanna count that then fine

[@Frahamen]

OK. so let's make it even and call American Football "Muccer" now.

[@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions]

*+*

[@workspaceofduc]

I think we should call it Ametican Soccer because it's played by suckers

[@wazmarwa164]

@@workspaceofduc Succerrs=Sucking And being pervs on Games

[@XLRAshon]

Give props where its due. You are the first person outside of soccer historians to state the fact it was called soccer before football. Also its not called "American football" it's "Gridiron Football" is the technical name

[@kazenriq]

Thought it had something to do with sorcerers...

[@denisenova7494]

xD That's Quidditch

[@bryceciufo9370]

It’s called soccer not football

[@quantumintellect7261]

I live in New Zealand, one of the countries you mentioned, and majority of people call the sport football and call people who say otherwise Americans

[@laurencefraser]

Mythic IQ maybe these days. When I was a kid (20 years back now) if you said "football" you'd just get blank looks from most people, and requests for clarification from the rest, because Nothing was called football in common usage (where I lived, at least) There was soccer, rugby (assume union unless league is specified), touch (rugby variant), and that weird american sport... Which was specifically "American football" if you only saw it in american media, or gridiron if you were a bit more knowledgeable in the random trivia department. Sometimes Rugby, mostly local club games, was "footie". I'm fairly sure the national governing body for soccer/football didn't even include the word football in its name, given that I was told by people actually involved in the sport that the change in common use from soccer to football came about after said body changed its name, removing the word soccer and using football instead.

[@RockismyAir]

Jalkapallo in Finnish. Sidenote: I hate it.

[@deaundrebondscheeks2]

I like it, why not be unique. We call it Soccer, my father calls it Calcio, you call it Jalkapallo.

[@AussieTVMusic]

AFL is Football too

[@zulphur]

AussieTV aussie rules 😊

[@arrgghh1555]

AFL is not rugby like. Also hands are not used instead of feet, they are uses as well as feet. Kicking is the most used and most effective form of moving the ball and AFL is the only form of football where the primary method of scoring must be kicked.

[@arrgghh1555]

You are correct AFL is a league, but there is no singular sport just named 'football'. AFL is so much easier to say then Australian rules football, and everyone knows what you're talking about. Same reason we say soccer (or football) and not Association football.

[@stephendraffin5775]

Arrgghh No, it would be like calling the game Premier League or First Division I.e. The name of the competition

[@anthonyf3680]

AussieTV afl is so gayyyyyyy

[@JustinThomas7]

In Australia, football could be one of four sports - Association Football, Rugby Union, Rugby League or Australian Rules Football. To avoid ambiguity, these are usually called A League or Soccer, Rugby or Union, League or NRL & Aussie Rules or AFL. If the term is used, you're also more likely to hear Footy rather than Football. A League encourage the use of "Football" to describe the sport, to the point where you usually get corrected if you call it soccer to a fan. It's good to know soccer is the high-brow name for the sport!

[@officerishi6789]

3:13 "a sucker"

[@pestilenceplague4765]

I think that most outsiders don't understand American football, and that seems great to me. It is very American, and we love it no matter what the hell the rest of the world thinks.

[@risannd]

In Indonesia we call it "sepak bola" which literally means "kick ball", but in informal speech people just say it "bola" which means just "ball"

[@delberttube8110]

Im indonesian but i call it soccer tho

[@nathanoliver9237]

It’s called football because it a sport where you don’t use a horse like polo you’re on foot

[@Mill_Jr]

Nathan Oliver So Basketball, Baseball, Volleyball, and many other sports are supposed to be called football too, they're also played on foot. This logic doesn't make sense

[@nathanoliver9237]

A Thousand TON it also would be far back in time to where the noblity would do most of the sporting and would often do it from horseback

[@BowToWard86]

A Thousand TON They do not have to be called football but if they were it would not be a problem. There is nothing wrong with "basket football" for a name. The original football game let you use your hands and even carry and throw the ball. Remember that.

[@wazmarwa164]

@@Mill_Jr How is BasketBall Played on Foot That Is Very Wrong Of you

[@ОлексійКупранець]

@@wazmarwa164 what kind of basketball are you playing where you dont walk or run?

[@rishibehal5]

Do origin of Hungary

[@abrokatec]

It’s because of the Huns

[@mikespearwood3914]

Apparently that's a coincidence.

[@docift]

Its called FOOTBALL u know cuz u play it with the FOOT not controlling a ball under your sweaty armpit 90% of the time

[@stratospheric37]

futa ball

[@kvgm]

Stratospheric OwO What's this?

[@stratospheric37]

*SHALL YOU BE BLESSED FROM THIS COMMENT FOR YEARS TO COME* (google futa)

[@internetexplorerchan2697]

Cursed.

[@theJellyjoker]

American rules Rugby.

[@lestorhaslam]

The school that was on the board of the F.A. is Forest School in Snaresbrook, on the London/Essex border and is the only school in the 1870’s to play in the F.A. Cup.

[@blsi4037]

The rest of the world: Ha! Americans have no culture! America: We have American Football The rest of the world: NO NO NO.

[@deaundrebondscheeks2]

Was that supposed to be a joke? Because I don't get what's funny?

[@user-fz3ip3ke8p]

@@deaundrebondscheeks2 because you are american

[@deaundrebondscheeks2]

Nope, Because it wasn't funny.

[@user-fz3ip3ke8p]

@@deaundrebondscheeks2 and you arent black. You are a watered down wanna be black. Literally all of africa hates your guts

[@TheRedDeathYT]

Is this another way of saying fuck you?