Soccer or Football?

[jemathonical]

Hey.

 

 

 

I was reading the No more Draws Topic and thought of this topic.

 

 

 

Do you call Soccer: Soccer or Football?

 

 

 

I was brought up to call it soccer because in Australia football means Rugby League.

 

 

 

I was curious to what you call soccer?

[remoteman]

When u mention footy i can refer to either codes of rugby, or AFL. Soccer here, (obviously, we live in the same country lol.) I think Americans also call it soccer...

[astro]

even though i am australian, i call soccer football and i call rugby, rugby. not football. i dont know why i call it that but i do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

p.s your title is wrong. It should say soccer or football. not soccer of football

[jemathonical]

even though i am australian, i call soccer football and i call rugby, rugby. not football. i dont know why i call it that but i do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

p.s your title is wrong. It should say soccer or football. not soccer of football

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ah ok, thanks for that

[Parabola]

To me, football means a game in which the ball is controlled only using one's feet. Note for the pedantic: the goalkeeper is a valid exception. The game is still all about controlling the ball with one's feet, as evidenced by the punishments for using hands.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Otherwise why would it be called football? I know very little about american football, but isn't the ball normally in people's hands?

[Bauke]

To me, football means a game in which the ball is controlled only using one's feet. Note for the pedantic: the goalkeeper is a valid exception. The game is still all about controlling the ball with one's feet, as evidenced by the punishments for using hands.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Otherwise why would it be called football? I know very little about american football, but isn't the ball normally in people's hands?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just what I was about to say. Football = football, that means, touch the ball with your feet.

 

 

 

I do call it soccer mostly though, it just sounds better.

[Tigra00]

I really have no idea why we call it Football in America when it is more like Rugby than anything, but...*Shrug*

[jonstark7x8]

I really have no idea why we call it Football in America when it is more like Rugby than anything, but...*Shrug*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, it's really weird...how did that happen? Lol.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I feel like a moron when I call it soccer :-# .

[RebelAssassin]

i used to hate it when people called it soccer, but after i saw some footage of a very old match (pre WW2) the commentator called it soccer, so i guess it has been in use for many many years before it was introduced to the united states.

[Bubsa]

I say 'Football' because that's what it's called in England. In America it could be said as 'Soccer' because of American Footie, in Oz because of Ozzie rules or whatever.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The game might have been born in England, but that doesn't mean anyone terming of the game is 'more correct' than the other. They're just different derivitives, that's all.

[jgrazotis]

i call it soccer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i call AFL football (how i hate it)

 

 

 

i call rugby, rugby

 

 

 

american football. american football or GridIron as some ppl call it in australia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and yeah... :?

[Aus_Fighter]

I call it soccer, Football to me in AFL (Go Hawks :-w)

[maddiegirl1992]

I CALL IT THE BEST SPORT EVA,,,JK I CALL IT SOCCER

[Nadril]

I call it soccer. However I don't actualy talk about it but if I were to I would call it soccer >_<.

[pompey_spud]

Football all the way, I've never called it 'soccer' in my life, and it does greatly annoy me to hear it called that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

However, like Rebel, I did see a documentary of pre-war football, and the commentator reffered to it as 'soccer', do my distaste of the word did lessen slightly.

[barnstormers]

soccer because i am american

[darkmage099]

To me, football means a game in which the ball is controlled only using one's feet. Note for the pedantic: the goalkeeper is a valid exception. The game is still all about controlling the ball with one's feet, as evidenced by the punishments for using hands.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Otherwise why would it be called football? I know very little about american football, but isn't the ball normally in people's hands?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You are correct. I don't know why we call it soccer but we do, and it is not going to change.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In american football, it is mostly in your hand (although there is a kicker).

[Rebdragon]

Soccah.

[pompey_spud]

soccer because i am american

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why does that matter? So just because you're from America, you have to follow the wrong norm? Why not decide for yourself which makes more sense, and then call it whichever you choose?

[darkmage099]

 

soccer because i am american

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why does that matter? So just because you're from America, you have to follow the wrong norm? Why not decide for yourself which makes more sense, and then call it whichever you choose?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So people understand it duhh. Frankly, who cares if it's "should" be called this or that?

[dangeresque]

I call it soccer since thats what they call it in america.....and that being where i live :

[das1330]

I call it soccer because I know no one exept on these forums that has ever called it football, and besides, there is another sport that is more intresting and is named football.

[Randox]

soccer because im canadian.

[Risen_The]

I call it football.

[The_Dragon_Reborn]

To be frank, I don't understand why us Americans stuck with 'soccer.' I think soccer has been a sport longer then we have been a country. :-k

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Although I am a much bigger fan of American Football, then I am of Soccer, I can't possibly think of a reason as to why we call it Football. There is a maximum of 3 Kicking positions in American Football, and everyone in Soccer kicks the ball. Makes no sense to me, but whatever.