Why do American call football as soccer?

For many years soccer was football and still it is except in America. FIFA is International Fedaration of Football Association, which managing football and specially world cup every for years. I thing in soccer we use our foot to kick the ball but in American football we just use our hand for move the ball so soccer is most likely to be football than American football !!!!!


In general American people are sometimes weird for this kind of usage of the words!!!|||I'm American, and I agree that it should be returned to its original name. My guess is that a while back we called it soccer to tick off Mother England.|||Dr. Manhatten's answer is correct - the term soccer actually did originate in England and was brought to the US from there. It's actually an English term for the game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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|||The term came from England, but most are too stuck up to admit it and just bash us Americans for using it.

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|||and the US is not the only country that uses "soccer" to differentiate it from some other game called football. Australia, Ireland and Canada also have sports called football (though Canadian football is nearly the same as US football).

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|||Dr. Manhattan has the right answer. Also, it isn't too hard to Google it and read the history, especially since Yahoo Answers is full of trolls.

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|||It dates all the way back to 1863, when the Football Association was first founded. It became known as Association Football, to differentiate it from Rugby Football, prevalent at the time. The 3rd, 4th, and 5th letters of association were taken and it was called SOCcer for short. So technically, soccer is a slightly more correct term that football is. Go figure.|||Who cares. Nobody gives two sh!ts what America calls it, they are not important.


The world knows it's called football and that's all that matters. It's FIFA not FISA.|||Who cares their **** a football anyway and always will be.|||God knows because what they call football you use your hands but they call a game where you use your feet soccer? wtf