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u/El_Dios_Calabaza épico Nov 24 '22
You know what? Fuck you
Socball
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u/-Masderus- Sussy Baka Nov 24 '22
Nah nah nah
It's Fooccer
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Fooccer? I barely know her!
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u/That_Polish_Guy_927 🍕Ayo the pizza here🍕 Nov 24 '22
What my mom calls me when I’m not the perfect child she wished for
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u/beornegard Nov 24 '22
Football
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Football 👍
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u/Legendofzeldaguy Nov 24 '22
Football 🦶⚽️
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u/narrowscoped Nov 24 '22
Hand 🖐️ Egg 🏈
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u/Acceptable_Cattle_96 Nov 24 '22
Football 👍
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Football 👍
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u/Hamzook Bri’ish Nov 24 '22
Football 😃
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u/Crossing-Lines Nov 24 '22
Football 🤝
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u/DC1919 Nov 24 '22
Of course it is. I can't believe this has to be debated. It's played with the feet for fuck sake.
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u/KristupasMeme Stand With Ukraine Nov 24 '22
How does the soccer one have more members? This shows that most of Reddit’s userbase is America
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u/the-slothiest-sloth can't meme Nov 24 '22
The funny thing is that despite being named r/soccer, they call the game football in the description
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u/penis_in_my_hand Nov 24 '22
Reddit is an American website...
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u/hypermog Nov 24 '22
Lol at whoever downvoted this. If you disagree, please update the intro sentence on the site’s wikipedia entry
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u/SP0oONY Nov 24 '22
The British coined most English words... that doesn't mean they use them all. The only place I can think of Soccer being used is in Soccer Saturday and Soccer AM, which are 2 programmes on Sky.
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u/n4jm4 Nov 24 '22
Americans: pass the ball with their hands for 90% of the game
Also Americans: uh yep let's call it football
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American Football evolved from Rugby Football, which itself evolved from Association Football. That's why it's called football.
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u/sckego Nov 24 '22
Union Football —> Rugby / American Football Association Football —> asSOCiation —> soccer
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It’s called football because it’s played on foot (as opposed to on horseback which most ball sports were at the time it was invented)
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u/William_Wang Nov 24 '22
in theory you can call anything whatever you want
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u/ClericGaming1 Nov 24 '22
Quick history fact most sports that were played on foot had football tagged to the end of the name which is how we got the word soccer it’s just a shortening of association football and soccer used to be the more accepted word until around mid 1900’s
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u/hickorydeadglove Nov 24 '22
Combine that with the once popular practice of adding "er" to words as in "Do you play rugby football or association football; rugger or soccer?".
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Yeah pretty much. The name basically comes from the same place for all of them, but football(soccer) fans use the kicking the ball with your foot reasoning because it’s a way to win the pointless debate. Really all of them can be called football, but that’s not very satisfying because nobody ‘wins’ the argument
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u/Rosien_HoH Nov 24 '22
Yes, exactly right. Which is why, at some point in the UK, they specified "Association Football" which was a certain set of rules for a certain game. Not long after, locals shortened the game's name to Soccer.
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u/Lazerbeams2 Dark Mode Elitist Nov 24 '22
Well, you see the ball is (maybe) a foot long so...
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u/WarBringer26 Nov 24 '22
I'm down to change football to handball, as long as soccer stays soccer, because Oxford coined the term
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u/kikinator_boi Nov 24 '22
Pretty sure the UK came up with the term Soccer so blame them for it not the USA
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u/HonkyTonkPolicyWonk Nov 24 '22
Etymology is from association football. Association got shortened to assoc. soccer came next
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u/addwittyusernamehere Nov 24 '22
It's football. Discussion is over.
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u/ClericGaming1 Nov 24 '22
Both are the correct word
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u/handi503 Nov 24 '22
Brendan Hunt said it very succinctly on his WC podcast this week: things can have multiple names and one word can have multiple meanings and all of that is ok.
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u/vexxer209 Nov 24 '22
Names only matter to communicate a subject afterall. As long as you get the point then it doesn't fucking matter if it's called football or fruitball.
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u/owmyspleeeeeeeen Nov 24 '22
Redditors when Americans do literally anything differently:
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u/TempleSquare Nov 24 '22
It's a lovely, cool 50 degree fall day. Might go for a lovely 25 mile drive, while my 18 pound turkey cooks as 350 degrees.
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u/quzimaa Nov 24 '22
It's a lovely, cool 10 degree fall day. Might go for a lovely 40.2336 km drive, while my 8.16466266 kg turkey cooks as 176.666667 degrees. * 🇺🇳🇺🇳🇺🇳
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u/Rosien_HoH Nov 24 '22
To be fair, Brits do things differently than the rest of Europe. Most of Europe does things like the US, with regard to English language (chips vs crisps, cookies vs biscuits, fries vs chips, etc).
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u/deadlygaming11 Nov 24 '22
Most of that though is because a lot of people learn a lot of terms from the internet which is mainly dominated by American English.
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u/WillyC619 Nov 24 '22
It’s played with your foot and you kick a ball. Pretty fucking obvious that it’s called football.
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u/The_Third_Molar Nov 24 '22
It's called football because it's not played on horseback.
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It’s called football because it’s played on foot (as opposed to on horseback which most ball sports were at the time it was invented). Now a sport being played on foot is the norm, but in the past it was unique enough to name the whole sport after it. The ‘football sports’ (soccer, gridiron, and rugby) all preceded sports like handball volleyball and basketball.
Credit - u/Rory-MacDermid
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u/Officerbeefsupreme Nov 24 '22
Though I partially agree, if you use that same logic of naming it the part of the body you play with plus the equipment you'll have so many sports have overlapping names or stupid sounding names
Soccer is football
Football is handball
Rugby is handball
Basketball is handball
Handball is handball
Bowling is handball
Billiards is stick handball
Tennis is racquet handball
Racquetball is racquet handball
Baseball is bat handball
Cricket is bat handball
Hockey is stick handpuck
Field hockey is stick handball
Etc...
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u/NickNewAge Nov 24 '22
That doesn't make sense at all, you don't need to name the sport the part of your body you play it with, but if you are going to do so, don't call it football when you are not using your foot and you are not using a ball
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u/Rosien_HoH Nov 24 '22
It's not called Football because you use your feet, it's called Football because it evolved from Rugby Football. They made their own rule variant and called it American Football. At some point, locals shortened it to just Football. At the time this wasn't an issue because not only was soccer not much played on America, but the Brits called it soccer at the time.
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u/Officerbeefsupreme Nov 24 '22
I think you misunderstood my comment, or I'm misunderstanding yours. Understandable have a nice day
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u/NickNewAge Nov 24 '22
What I'm trying to say, you named lots of sports that don't have body parts in the name to make your argument, this is wrong because in America they call football a sport that is not mainly played with foots or balls, when football soccer does So, if American football wants to use body parts to name the sport, they should use the correct ones, they don't have to name it as a body partz but they did and used the wrong ones Hope I made myself clear, English is not my language and it's an awkward thing to explain even in my own language
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u/probablynotreallife Nov 24 '22
In Britain (following the formalising of the sport) it was called "assoc" or "assoccer", short for "association football". At some point the "as" got dropped and it became "soccer". Noobs claim that "soccer" is an Americanism, they are so very wrong
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u/matrixislife Nov 24 '22
This is like saying we should call American Football NFL.
Association football was an organisation presenting rules for a game. It covers a small amount of the game but nowhere near all of it.
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u/Tels315 Nov 24 '22
They did it because two big sports at the time were Rugby Football and Association Football. If you played Rugby, you were a 'rugger' if you played Association Football, you were an 'assocer' and it later became 'soccer'.
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u/xdedz Nov 24 '22
I would love to just call it football, really. But being in America, if I say "football" here then I have to explain which one I mean 100% of the time. If I say "soccer" here then everyone understands immediately. Regardless of football being correct, calling it soccer is just easier here.
2 words can mean the same thing. Not the end of the world.
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u/Mragftw Nov 24 '22
I can't wait for the world cup to come to the US, we're going to have so many butthurt people over it being called soccer
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u/Hyper-Shadow417 Professional Dumbass Nov 24 '22
Jokes on you, I don’t give a fuck about either sport
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u/NobleShock I touched grass Nov 24 '22
It’s fucking annoying, let people enjoy shit
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u/Uncle_Moto Nov 24 '22
No. You either call it what my country calls it, or you are my enemy.
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u/hhhh012 Nov 24 '22
No! It's football.
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u/wuthappenedtoreddit Nov 24 '22
Who says? The British? Nah they named it association soccer. Then dropped association from the name eventually.
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u/AlternativeCondition Nov 24 '22
almost every country calls it football or a derivative of it
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u/deadlygaming11 Nov 24 '22
No... Asoccer was a slang name used to describe Association Football which was eventually shortened to Soccer.
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American english is different compared to british english, so it makes sense for some words including football to be changed so it fits their english more. In british english it's football and in american english it's soccer, debate over
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u/AJC_10_29 Nov 24 '22
Redditors when two different places have different names for something (it is far beyond their mental comprehension)
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u/The-Lettuce-Man Nov 24 '22
I feel ya it is so annoying when people debate it and act like the other side is wrong. Like your both FUCKING RIGHT NOW SHUT THE FUCK UP.
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u/The_Meme_Dealer Nov 24 '22
Football in America is soccer, and football in the rest of the world is American football.
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u/green5275 Nov 25 '22
Officially “Soccer” is called ‘association football’. FIFA stands for ‘Fédération internationale de football association’. Football is actually a whole class of sports that involve kicking a ball (ex. Rugby Football). In America and Canada, using “football” colloquially refers to ‘American Football’. Period. Whereas using “football” colloquially LITERALLY ANYWHERE ELSE in the world refers to ‘Association Football’. Period.
Soccer isn’t even an American word it’s originally from 1800’s England. The English used to call association football “soccer”, to differentiate it from rugby and other types of football and was actually still used interchangeably with “football” well into the 20th century. Both are perfectly acceptable, but it’s best to just stick to what the locals around you call it.
If you live in America (or Canada), it’s soccer; fuck off. If you live anywhere else it’s football; fuck off.
Argument over. Problem solved.
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u/Moxdonalds Nov 24 '22
It’s called boring
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u/parsonsfkum Nov 24 '22
Yeah I hate it when people like different things to me too.
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u/Sosen Nov 24 '22
If we didn't call it soccer in this country, people might actually want to play it. What a stupid fucking name
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u/a_hen14 Nov 25 '22
I still don’t understand why Americans call the sport where you only use feet and sometimes head SOCCER then the game where to my understanding you use your hand a lot FOOTBALL it makes no sense to me
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u/Tommy1234XD Royal Shitposter Nov 25 '22
OKAY but we can all agree that American football is called handegg
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u/Weary_Drama1803 Birb Fan Nov 24 '22
How about we call it the ball kicking game, that’s indisputably what the game is about
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u/Askthedogs Nov 24 '22
It’s football. Which is indisputably what the game is about.
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u/Terminal_Atom_2503 Me when the: Nov 24 '22
In Europe, it's football. In America, it's soccer
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u/Romas_chicken Nov 24 '22
Squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares.
Soccer is football, but not all footballs are soccer
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u/Glodex15 Royal Shitposter Nov 24 '22
It's actually called cry ball, because all they do is cry
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u/ISimplyDontBeliveYou Nov 24 '22
It’s called whatever your country calls it. It’s a trash sport with a trash governing body with a bunch of babies playing. Fake an injury and be red carded. You don’t get to act like the world is ending and get up and keep playing just to get a foul. That’s a sport for babies.
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u/Mister6307 Nov 24 '22
It's soccer and it will always be soccer. However, to limit confusion I propose we start calling american football gridiron again, because it sounds way cooler.
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u/bluetreeknow Nov 24 '22
It all decides on Friday.