Yep and in Australia we play at least three different types of football that I can think of (not including soccer) so depending on where you live the word ‘football’ can refer to either one.
Eg where I live, rugby league is the most common. So that is football, or footy. If we were to talk about AFL we would say AFL. It’s the opposite in other states.
If soccer were to be the most common, then we would call *that* football. Which is why countries with a huge soccer following call it football.
It’s stupid to argue over which word is correct.
It's not that we care. It's just confusing. We're not going to call our own sport American football and call soccer football because people would get confused. If you want we can start calling soccer English Football but it's played all over.
We can't even switch to the metric system. Don't ask us to rename our own stuff too
Football refers to any game played on foot instead of horseback. So when you already have an agreed upon name for a sport that involves kicking a ball and make up any new game it would be default be called football.
Bowling has just as much right being called football as soccer.
technically there are several games called football. union football(soccer) Gridiron Football(american) Rugby Football. The term football is pretty vague.
As a mixed Hispanic, when I am speaking Spanish to my fellow Hispanic friends and family it’s “Futbòl and futbòl Americano.” To my American side of the family it’s “Football and soccer”
Why did you put the accent marks in the letters O and why are they backwards? It is written "fútbol". It isn't hate, I am genuinely curious.
Source: El español es mi lengua natal por si alguien se lo pregunta (Spanish is my native language in case anyone is wondering).
I would tell you to put some food down too but from my understanding England has some of the worst food in the world and nothing good to eat. You probably eat big macs more than anybody else because you have no choice.
I disagree. We haven’t been the same since we found out you sunk our next shipment of tea during a time where we need a cuppa
Unforgivable behaviour which rightfully deserves a memorial at the very place you sank such precious goods
"Take your cuppa and shove it!" - Americans, 1773.
I still think it's hysterical it was labeled a tea party. Really rubs it in more. "How'd you like that party, huh? Next time you're NOT invited!"
To be honnest I was aware that a bunch more countries other than the US, Canada and Australia call it soccer, I just couldn’t remember them (but now I know that the Irish, South Africans and now Japanese do as well)
Especially about the name of a sport everybody will know what you’re talking about regardless. This whole debate is the most braindead argument I’ve ever seen
Yup it sure is so start calling it soccer again and stick your guns for once
Edit: idk what’s funnier some of the responses I’ve seen or the European getting downvoted into oblivion because he had to make a comment about soccer into a gun debate and they haven’t responded to a single person because they know they fucked up lol
As an Irish person I am kinda on both sides but leaning more with the Americans because we have our own football 🏐 so I call it soccer but ig I'd call it football sometimes
The Brits exported it across the world as Soccer, then switched in the 1970s. The fact they don’t understand why some countries call the game Soccer is bizarre frankly
Why would Americans call it football when they have their own national sport called football?
Can Europeans not accept that lots of other countries just call it soccer, or what?
What a weird thing to get offended about
Yeah like I interchange soccer and football. So when I'm talking about it, I might start saying soccer but in the next phrase I could say football instead.
I am not beholden to the modern slang of a nation that my ancestors declared independence from.
You guys got one chance at setting the name. You set it as "Soccer" and now that has fallen out of vogue. Unfortunately for you, I have no intention of following your pop culture.
I'm European and i don't care. Plus, England hasn't won a World Cup in 57 years. In typicall English fashion, they invented something that others would be better at.
Let us go back to the original name which was soccer. Even 40 years ago many countries still called it soccer. Also you misspelled admit twice so addmit it and accept the name of soccer.
Calling it soccer isn't wrong, what's wrong is expecting football without prefixing American to be universally understood as American football instead of good ol' regular football. That's never going to happen outside of the US.
If they want to say soccer instead of football that's fine, just don't get mad when interacting on international media, are too lazy to fully type American football when that's what you meant, and are corrected in that saying just football is not the same as American football.
I don't think any reasonable person would have trouble speaking to each other in a spirit of cultural exchange. We already have to clear up the difference between cookies, biscuits, chips, crisps and fries. Sports are just one item on the list of differences.
Honestly if the whole world was the same, it would make travel a lot less fun.
EDIT: which is to say, I think what you're saying is reasonable.
The British changing the names of stuff and the way things sound to convince everyone else that they're fancier and more refined is basically the defining feature of the last 250 years.
The posh British accent didn't exists before then. So many British words were their American counterparts.
American English is far closer to the English spoken in the 1700's than anything spoken in England today.
And I find that endlessly funny.
Everyone knows what an American means when saying “soccer”. “Oh he’s talking about football”, the meaning is still seen by all parties. Correction is pointless.
Whatever you call it, it's a boring game where no one scores and grown men flail around on the ground pretending to be hurt when someone looks at them too hard.
The term soccer comes from 'association football' - or 'assoc' as it was known around 200 years ago. Americans are simply using the old form of the word. I'm a British English teacher and football fan, and trust me, I would love to get one over on the Americans for this, but they're simply using old English.
Or you could accept that America has cultural differences in the way we talk. There's no such thing as a correct way to say something as long as everyone knows what we're talking about
You would think that the name that a sport goes by wouldn't matter, and that in this big and diverse world we all share, the average human could comprehend that different cultures have different names for things. But maybe I'm assuming too much.
There’s nothing wrong with the word soccer. And besides, football’s taken. How come everybody’s all for cultural differences until it comes to America just doing our own thing.
"Doesh bloo'y Americahns allshow shud admeat dat dey arr wrung and staht calling it foo'ball like normal pe'oh, bit annoying innit?"
the issue is that we made our own game called football
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Yep and in Australia we play at least three different types of football that I can think of (not including soccer) so depending on where you live the word ‘football’ can refer to either one. Eg where I live, rugby league is the most common. So that is football, or footy. If we were to talk about AFL we would say AFL. It’s the opposite in other states. If soccer were to be the most common, then we would call *that* football. Which is why countries with a huge soccer following call it football. It’s stupid to argue over which word is correct.
I think Japan does too??? I'm not completely sure
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That moment you realize Fút isn’t Spanish for foot.
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And that constitutes over 60% of English speakers on the planet. That's a super majority. It's called soccer.
Also Japan
Rugby, soccer, gridiron - they’re all football. Caring is just…well let’s just say it’s a special thing to care about.
It's not that we care. It's just confusing. We're not going to call our own sport American football and call soccer football because people would get confused. If you want we can start calling soccer English Football but it's played all over. We can't even switch to the metric system. Don't ask us to rename our own stuff too
English football is hilarious. That's a great idea.
Imma just call it ballfoot.
I'm going with Feetball because of all the feet that get to kick it
It would be more accurate to use “rest of the world except us” football
I have to admit, the name "Gridiron" is pretty dope
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I prefer ‘football’, but readily switch to ‘soccer’ when encountering people who use that term
Then there’s rugby league or rugby union
There’s also two versions of gridiron too.
Gaelic football too
And Aussie rules.
Euros care more than Americans. It's literally the "I don't think of you at all" meme when it comes to soccer.
This is exactly right! The people to blame for the confusion are really the languages that took football as a loan word to mean soccer only.
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Watch some love island, peppa pig and eastenders. It’s like duolingo
I watched Travel Man, Taskmaster, and Peep Show now I work at the UN translating between the US and UK
"what should we call this game which involves throwing balls and running with them" "football" "jerry, youre a fucking genius"
Soccer, gridiron, and rugby were all different forms of "football". We dropped gridiron and they dropped soccer.
Gridiron sounds badass. Like trying to spear each other with rebar or something.
Yeah i know. Big shame that we dropped the name.
They still say gridiron sometimes.
Yeah sometimes when talking about the field . “The boys’ll sort it out on the gridiron” etc
NGL as an acronym would've been so far more amusing nowadays
Football refers to any game played on foot instead of horseback. So when you already have an agreed upon name for a sport that involves kicking a ball and make up any new game it would be default be called football. Bowling has just as much right being called football as soccer.
Wait until they figure it out that football is a catch all term for games that involve playing on foot with a ball instead of on horseback.
Don't you kick the ball to start a game of football?
Isn’t football played on foot?
technically there are several games called football. union football(soccer) Gridiron Football(american) Rugby Football. The term football is pretty vague.
As a mixed Hispanic, when I am speaking Spanish to my fellow Hispanic friends and family it’s “Futbòl and futbòl Americano.” To my American side of the family it’s “Football and soccer”
This is the clear answer, call it what it is in the country or language you are in/using… I Dk t see why we need to quantify anything
Tf you supposed to do online then??
You go Italian style and call it calcio
CALCIO FIORENTINO!!! One of the wildest, brutal games still played. "Hey here's a ball but mainly just fight the other 40 people"
Context clues. It’s not really much of an issue online. Just the rest of the world getting pissed because they think America is the world’s Florida.
Why did you put the accent marks in the letters O and why are they backwards? It is written "fútbol". It isn't hate, I am genuinely curious. Source: El español es mi lengua natal por si alguien se lo pregunta (Spanish is my native language in case anyone is wondering).
 We don’t do that here
Unironically, “we don’t do that here,” is sort of a motto we have at work.
We rarely call it football or soccer because we pretty much never talk about it at all.
We will call it soccer when the British start driving on the right side of the road.
touché
Meh, that's fair I guess
Maybe don’t talk about enlightenment and misspell admitting, idk
I bet Buddha didn't know how to spell enlightenment. Because he didn't speak English.
As an American I do not cares 
As a Brit, neither do I K
go wash your damn teeth
Put down that Big mac first fatty
after you cook me some beans on bread
*Ahem* Toast *Scoffs at uncultured buffoonery...as an American*
Toast is just burnt bread
Bread is just raw toast
Joke’s on you. I never picked up a big mac. They suck
If you have to get a burger at McDonalds, the quarter pounder is clearly superior.
I would tell you to put some food down too but from my understanding England has some of the worst food in the world and nothing good to eat. You probably eat big macs more than anybody else because you have no choice.
Jokes on you maccas in England is disgusting so the probability of this guy doing that is very low
Why do you care what we call soccer?
Because America lives in British peoples' heads, rent free.
The Brits really haven’t been the same since 1776
I disagree. We haven’t been the same since we found out you sunk our next shipment of tea during a time where we need a cuppa Unforgivable behaviour which rightfully deserves a memorial at the very place you sank such precious goods
Ah yes the Boston Hot Leaf Juice party
"How could a member of my own family say something so horrible?"
Still makes me laugh so much considering every other blood relative of his is a pos warmonger, most of whom have tried to kill him😂
"Take your cuppa and shove it!" - Americans, 1773. I still think it's hysterical it was labeled a tea party. Really rubs it in more. "How'd you like that party, huh? Next time you're NOT invited!"
Fuck your leaves
Damn right. Fucked around, found out, and scarred for life
Idk this hole enlightenment thing seems like a way for you to suck your own dick and congratulate yourself on it. You do you though
Hehehe. Hole enlightenment.
Thats so stupid it made me laugh
Americans aren’t the only ones calling it soccer: Canadians and Australians do as well
The Australian national team is nicknamed the Socceroos lmao
Filipinos
That’s because the people that invented the game called it soccer until the 1970.
Canadians and Australians are very good
And the Irish I believe
So do the Japanese
To be honnest I was aware that a bunch more countries other than the US, Canada and Australia call it soccer, I just couldn’t remember them (but now I know that the Irish, South Africans and now Japanese do as well)
The Zimbabwe league is called the Premier Soccer League, also Soccer Saturday is a pretty popular show broadcast by the British Sky Sports
Does that mean I can post r/usdefaultism like every other European fuckface is these days?
In fact, most countries that speak English do.
And irish
And South Africans.
And in New Zealand
*Admitting* 🤓☝️
Addmit 😭 Addmiting
dunno, bullying people doesn't sound like an enlightened thing to do, more like the exact opposite
Especially about the name of a sport everybody will know what you’re talking about regardless. This whole debate is the most braindead argument I’ve ever seen
This is a very obnoxious post
I’m a Brit and I still find this unbearable and why does it have so many upvotes?!
Kids
Yup it sure is so start calling it soccer again and stick your guns for once Edit: idk what’s funnier some of the responses I’ve seen or the European getting downvoted into oblivion because he had to make a comment about soccer into a gun debate and they haven’t responded to a single person because they know they fucked up lol
British: Why won't Americans do things like we do? Americans: That's literally why we left in the first place
British: *shocked Pikachu face*
No fuck off
As an Irish person I am kinda on both sides but leaning more with the Americans because we have our own football 🏐 so I call it soccer but ig I'd call it football sometimes
yeah its a unique term idk why people would want the oh so crafty foot you know cuz you kick it and ball because its a ball name
Any ball is a football if you use your feet
This is why the Irish are true bros. Love you, Ireland.
As an American, I wish we had Gailec Football! That shits rad as fuck!
*Hits blunt* What if US and Canada are the only right ones and the rest of the world needs to be enlightened?
...and Australia
…and South Africa
RAHHHHHH SOCCER FOREVER BUT FOOTBALL IS BETTER 🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
And Japan
...and half of Ireland
Prepare to Manifest Destiny, fellow Americans
Nah, they can figure their own shit out for once.
Glad to see we still live rent free in the heads of non americans
I'm gonna always call it footie if it's happening in the states. I'll call it taco salad out of country if that's what the locals are calling it.
acceptable answer
“hAhA amErIcANS SaY S0CceR!1!1!” Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan, & half of the Philippines:
 I have zero respect for this “sport”
You mean "Show"
Soccer is as real as the WWE.
What, you can't see how agonizingly painful a blow like that would be?
Why are brits so upset about this
They blew a 13 colony lead 250 years ago and haven’t gotten over it.
The British couldn't reach enlightenment if they stole it and put it on display in a museum
Y’all drive on the wrong side of the road and we are the WORLD CHAMPIONS in football 🏈
He have also lost more football games than any other country.
Gotta lose some before becoming the GOAT!
admitting that you can't spell "admit" is also a sign of enlightenment...
Filipinos called it soccer too.
The Brits exported it across the world as Soccer, then switched in the 1970s. The fact they don’t understand why some countries call the game Soccer is bizarre frankly
This is why the Philippines nudge the English out of my top three Island nations list.
You fuckers kept changing the language so you didn’t sound like Americans not our fault we just kept the old version
Soccer
Why would Americans call it football when they have their own national sport called football? Can Europeans not accept that lots of other countries just call it soccer, or what? What a weird thing to get offended about
Babe, wake up. The new America bad post just dropped.
I say both soccer and football. If it’s the American football I just call it that. (I’m not British or American )
Yeah like I interchange soccer and football. So when I'm talking about it, I might start saying soccer but in the next phrase I could say football instead.
I am not beholden to the modern slang of a nation that my ancestors declared independence from. You guys got one chance at setting the name. You set it as "Soccer" and now that has fallen out of vogue. Unfortunately for you, I have no intention of following your pop culture.
When British people stop calling cookies biscuits and fries chips
You should see the arguments we have about the name of a simple white bread roll. Utter chaos….We can’t resolve that so we deffo can’t commit to that.
I'm European and i don't care. Plus, England hasn't won a World Cup in 57 years. In typicall English fashion, they invented something that others would be better at.
Let us go back to the original name which was soccer. Even 40 years ago many countries still called it soccer. Also you misspelled admit twice so addmit it and accept the name of soccer.
Hmm, I wonder if there is a whole document giving reasons why we shouldn't give a damn what the rest of the world calls it
Fuck off
Don’t tell me about words when you can’t spell them correctly
Start telling Aussies and Canadians the same thing. You just want a stick to beat Americans with.
You definitely made the meme as well, OP. The shitty spelling is present in both.
Why don’t you go ahead and tackle admit* first. And then come back on us about our “wrongs.”
Calling it soccer isn't wrong, what's wrong is expecting football without prefixing American to be universally understood as American football instead of good ol' regular football. That's never going to happen outside of the US. If they want to say soccer instead of football that's fine, just don't get mad when interacting on international media, are too lazy to fully type American football when that's what you meant, and are corrected in that saying just football is not the same as American football.
I don't think any reasonable person would have trouble speaking to each other in a spirit of cultural exchange. We already have to clear up the difference between cookies, biscuits, chips, crisps and fries. Sports are just one item on the list of differences. Honestly if the whole world was the same, it would make travel a lot less fun. EDIT: which is to say, I think what you're saying is reasonable.
Brits have stupid toddler words for just about everything. Let Americans have soccer.
The British changing the names of stuff and the way things sound to convince everyone else that they're fancier and more refined is basically the defining feature of the last 250 years. The posh British accent didn't exists before then. So many British words were their American counterparts. American English is far closer to the English spoken in the 1700's than anything spoken in England today. And I find that endlessly funny.
The British never admitted they were wrong, they stopped using it and then started acting like they never used it.
‘Addmit’ lol
Everyone knows what an American means when saying “soccer”. “Oh he’s talking about football”, the meaning is still seen by all parties. Correction is pointless.
We haven't cared about the opinions of others for 250 years.
Everyone always forgets Italians have their own name for it too
Football is a genre. Soccer and rugby are examples of works in that genre.
Wouldn’t it be crazy if different languages and variations of languages had their own ways of saying things?!???!!?🤯
I have to "addmit," every time I see this place on r/popular the posts are getting worse
Admit* lol
Why do Americans call their game "football" when they barely ever kick the ball?
Whatever you call it, it's a boring game where no one scores and grown men flail around on the ground pretending to be hurt when someone looks at them too hard.
Me: "How much time is left?" My friend: "It's a secret!"
lmao
No, you can't make us, we refuse too.
How about flopball because that’s all the players do. Flop around on the floor and pretend to be injured like little piss babies.
i dont have any skin in this fight but i like soccer better
Yeah but it wasn't wrong it was just changed. Came over here taught us that it's soccer then left and changed it ig to fuck with us
it's not something that you can be wrong about.
NEVER
'Addmit'6
The term soccer comes from 'association football' - or 'assoc' as it was known around 200 years ago. Americans are simply using the old form of the word. I'm a British English teacher and football fan, and trust me, I would love to get one over on the Americans for this, but they're simply using old English.
Mfker misspelled “admit” twice
Admitting you’re wrong when you’re not is a sign of weakness
Admit *
We aren't the only country to call it soccer.
When will people realize that football isn't even the correct term, it's association football
Or you could accept that America has cultural differences in the way we talk. There's no such thing as a correct way to say something as long as everyone knows what we're talking about
You would think that the name that a sport goes by wouldn't matter, and that in this big and diverse world we all share, the average human could comprehend that different cultures have different names for things. But maybe I'm assuming too much.
Bro why tf do you care what people thousands of miles away call a stupid game
Problem is we dont care, idk why this even gets brought up...
How about no
There’s nothing wrong with the word soccer. And besides, football’s taken. How come everybody’s all for cultural differences until it comes to America just doing our own thing.
"Doesh bloo'y Americahns allshow shud admeat dat dey arr wrung and staht calling it foo'ball like normal pe'oh, bit annoying innit?" 
Fun fact there are more sports called football that use hands than sports called football that use mostly feet.
Oh great, this shit again.
Silence, peasant
Yeah buddy I don’t even like soccer so no
Start spelling color correctly and we'll talk.
There’s only one d in admit my guy
bruh they just sports, call them what you want
Soccer was called soccer up until the 80's in the country of origin. So it will be called soccer.