Y’all are the ones who came up with the name soccer.

You want to blame someone, blame yourselves since you're the ones who created and colonized the word.

https://www.britannica.com/story/why-do-some-people-call-football-soccer

They use retarded measuring systems, can't call their own country by the right nane and nane it as the continent, they leave their fellow citizens die of illness if they can't pay for it, and sustain their economic system by waging war or provoking them, and their president cant hold his shit in, what did you expect?

Why is is foot so far from the soccerball aren't you supposed to kick it?

But you use both of your feet. Shouldn't it be called feetball then?

I'm sure this has been asked before, but what should American Football be renamed to, to avoid confusion?

Soccer? Hardly even know 'er.

What does RFU stand for again?

Yes it fucking is

Hey don’t blame us, it was yall that came up with that name.

Actually I believe it's called "Football" because most ball games were originally played on horseback.

Football (Soccer) was one of the first ball games to be played on foot, hence Foot-ball

That's why Rugby, Canadian Football, Australian Football, and American Football are also types of "Football".

Also, the name "Soccer" was literally invented in England. It's short for "Association Football" (Association - Assoc - Soccer) so shut the f*** up

Handball.

Soccer is a British word though, but predominantly southerner / Oxfordian.

Association Football used to get contracted to Assoc or Soc to differentiate it from Rugby Football.

And in Oxford, they historically liked to add -er to the end of things; still in parlance today is calling Rugby “rugger”, £5 note “fiver”, the Bodleian Library “Bodder”.

Assoc became “soccer”.

It’s not an American thing. It’s a posh southern England thing that got exported to the states by American students at Oxford returning stateside and bringing the game back with them.

if it's called football, then why did YOU name it soccer? seems kind of silly to blame other people for using the name you insisted everyone use.

but that's like imperial measurements, you insisted everyone use them and then changed your mind down the line and now make fun of us for using the Imperial system that Imperial Britian came up with. you have a nasty habit of blaming everyone else for the problems you create.

Blame the British, Oxford specifically, and their penchant to name things ending in -er. They're the ones that named it, and they hide from that fact now as if they were never a part of it.

https://www.history.com/articles/why-do-some-people-call-it-soccer

¿Por qué no los dos? Personally tired of these primarily online binary semantic arguments. Gif, jif, football, soccer, fútbol, pineapple, ananas, eggplant, aubergine. We contain multitudes, celebrate these absolutely arbitrary differences.

Both the American and rest of the world versions of their respective ball games are played on foot, as opposed to polo that is played riding a horse. The latter was originally invented by Ralph Lauren, as commemorated in ubiquitous t-shirts with a gentlemanly collar.