'Football' vs 'Soccer' - WHY the war of words?
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Some call it "football" and despise the word "soccer". Those in the “football” camp are likely European, and resent those in the US or elsewhere that simply cannot get the name of their beautiful sport correct. And those that call it "soccer" hate it when people say "football", which to them is a completely different ball game. Finally, there’s a third group: people like us here at Kick off!, who want to get to the bottom of this war of words. Why all the hate over a simple name?
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Half the teams in MLS have FC in their name lol
Absolutely . Epic fail SoCcEr fAnS
Should be SC if they want to call it soccer
BOOOM 🤯
Because we accept that it's both. And american football (the egg kind) teams arent called clubs or fc so its reserved for soccer thus there is no confusion. No american thinks it should only be called soccer. Literally zero americans think that.
Not any S.C.
In spanish we call the usa sport "Fútbol Americano", which would directly translate to American Football
I thought most languages called it American Football. It must be called 'gridiron' somewhere but not in the UK.
@@EnglishforFOOTBALLFANS same when they said that I was like ???? What?
Pero América es un continente no un país :v
@@alonsocarrasco1377 North America is a continent so is South America. 2 different continents just as Europe & Asia are 2 different continents.
@@EnglishforFOOTBALLFANS Australians use the term "gridiron" for American football.
American football can just change its name to touchdown
Or handegg
In my country American football is called gridiron
@@thenorseprodigy7466 fun fact. It's actually US themselves who wants the sport to be named "Gridiron" internationally. I'd guess they would name-change that in their own country too if it weren't because their citizens simply already being too familiar with their own "football" and find it offensive to change it.
@@aadhi9540 soccer
@@Richiesam2 okay sucker
I like how they researched soo much non sense to make us believe that rugby is also football
Rugby is football. So is Aussie rules.
"Rugby football started about 1845 at Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire, England" There, end of discussion.
Look it up on wikipedia.
🤣
Rugby to me it’s more correct to call it handball
@@theodociocozanitis5437 more like hand egg
1 year later, it's still football, not soccer.
2 years later , It's still football and nothing else
Hopefully a century later, it'll still be Football
Soccer
@@Abd_707 no because English won’t have such an international Word
It's still whatever it was a year ago. Europeans call it football whilst most non-UK Anglos call it soccer. Whoopdeedoo!
For the last time: it is FOOTBALL
it doesn’t matter lol. soccer, calcio, football all mean the same thing. no need to get mad over a word
@@italics6321 Nah
Socc3r
@@fe-jo whats the diffrence between soccer, football, and calcio ?
@@italics6321 1 of them is the real word for it, 1 of them is fine and 1 of them makes no sense because if you call it soccer it means u call something else football which shouldn't be called football
Zlatan would've killed him 😂🤣 remember if u argue with zlatan it's equal to suicide
It would have been better
Nah hes bitchmade and got pressed by Kimmy limmel
...but I bet even he would have to use his hands then..
No, he's what football fans consider to be a "tough guy". That's because they don't watch american football, rugby and other sports where the average player weighs more than 65 kg.
Man I was thinking the same thing, in fact i got a little bit scared he would at least spit on his face or slap him.
It’s football. Your handegg is not football.
I am from Botswana, you marked us part of the people who call football soccer, we definitely don't call it soccer here. It's FOOTBALL
Proud of you my brother 👍
Tell them
Football is cringe
@John Doe we actually call it Diski
@@Tacritto you're cringe
how come u say a game "football" while u use hand to hold the ball and run while it ?? does not make sense ..
Because American football is a derivation of Rugby Football.
@@original.dwornboy never heard the term rugby football before its just rugby.
@@original.dwornboy it still makes no logical sense you use hands to throw and carry an egg shaped opject not feet to hit a ball
@@NeroPiroman Because that‘s what it has been called for over 100 years. And to @GS R, Rugby has historically been called Rugby Football. The name derives from a version of football that was developed at the Rugby School in England. There are a whole category of games called football around the world that use an oblong ball that is carried - and sometimes kicked (Rugby Football, American Football, Canadian Football, Gaelic Football, Australian Football, etc.).
Because its played on foot and not on horses.
It’s absurd to call a sport “football” when it’s played using hands. Like kickboxing, you should call that sport handfootball
The reason it's called football is from its origin to Rugby. Rugby in itself used to have the word football club next to certain clubs due to it being played on foot. Football was used to differentiate between sports played on foot and sports played on horseback. Thus American Football. It's some history that often gets forgetting since people want to get mad at a word being used like how it was historically used.
Even 'soccer' permitted the use of hands to an extent in its original version. You could catch a high flying ball as long as you immediately put it on the ground and continue playing with your feet. The rules of these sports (all called football) kept changing and now rugby and american football mostly use hands, and soccer mostly uses feet (don't remember the throw-in where players put the ball in play with their hands), but that doesn't mean that you have to change names after more than a century just because the rules have slowly evolved to a point where they don't accurately reflect the name of the game anymore.
For example, in Rugby a 'try' gives you the most points, but it's called that because it used to only give you a try to score a goal between the posts and it didn't bring any points by itself. The name 'try' doesn't make any sense today, but it's not being changed just because of that. History is important.
They call it football because the ball is one foot long, different logic but makes sense.
Dude why did you lot write literal essays- nobody in Britain ( where football is played more than in America ) says soccer.
@@calebrenders1915 So what?
ACCEPTING SOCCER WOULD BE LIKE CANADA LOSING TO BRASIL IN ICE HOCKEY
Couldn't say it better myself
Theres no sense, why the fu** they call "football" a sport they plays with the hands? They could call this catchball or something like that, because this name theres no sense
Pois fique sabendo que somos um país que o hóquei no Gelo é muito competido em todos os estados
I AGREE What passes for football or soccer is not the same game as it was 50 yrs ago. Then the players did not pass behind them when on their side of the field.Most times it was long balled on to their side .THEIR they could not score on you or steal it from you,where your team can try to steal it from them and get a shot.Back then most players knew who they would pass to before they received a pass because most all were trying to find some space.This does not seem to be happening today,only a few not all the offence.IN the old days the teams practiced ONE touch football so we could be better at it then the other side. Kick the ball down field,THE players will do the rest.
Canada uses the term Soccer
I'm from the Philippines (one of the "soccer" gang in Asia) and we now call it "football". Thanks to Filipino-European footballers we had that re-popularized football here, plus all our Southeast Asian neighbors (like Indonesia and Malaysia) call it football anyway.
no we didn't, we used the term "bola sepak/sepak bola". Philippines used the term in english cause they were occupied by english-speaking countries and they're using filipino and english as official language. but in Malaysia and Indonesia we're using malay (malaysia) and bahasa (indonesia) which kinda similar. although Malaysia were occupied by english-speaking country either, but they're using malay language as official language.
@@lafleur7416 koi rasa la, dalam taglog pun ada je dia punya 'bola sepak'. orang sana mungkin cakap football bila guna english. kita kat malaysia guna football kalau bahasakan bola sepak dalam english. rilek brader
@@lafleur7416 gagal paham ini orang.
Saker, or Putbol, but officially used is Football right now
It depends on the region, the south side calls it Soccer and the north side calls it Football
If someone says soccer, I assume he is not a football fans.
How will you know that they’re American?
@@dajjukunrama5695 could be Canadian, Australian, from some countries of Africa and Asia. The US is not the only country that keeps using the wrong word, but the mentality is changing amongst those other places and start to accept reality once they begin to understand what football really is
Then you are most definitely not a fan. Either that or you really let just people ruin your day cause they called a sport differently lmao.
If someone says soccer, I assume that they think football is that game in which the players almost never used their foot to kick the ball
@@s4sh1_337 Prove it is an official name.,
"Don't call it America!"
It's not a country but a continent.
@Lol Lol lol i don't know how to reply to this
Even Mexico prefers Football
@Lol Lol
It's called football because you play ON your feet.
Only AMERICANS and CANADIANS call it soccer in both North and South America
Yall say African stfu and its a continent
2 countries vs 200 doesn't seem like much of a war
Fun fact.... many words around the world are different from country to country and language to language! The English term for this phenomenon is "vocabulary". Can you say, "vocabulary". Good job!
とても恥ずかしいのですが、我々日本人はフットボールをサッカーと呼びます。心からお詫び申し上げます。
America football =Hand✋+egg🥚= Handegg
Maybe it's runball coz they doing touchdowns
Maybe but at least we do not fall a sleep watching 120 pound lawn fairies jog up and down the field for 90 mins just to end up with a 0-0 tie.
Lol
@@davidnealy6459 yes but your American football is called rugby
@@davidnealy6459 Say that to the +4 billion fans that love football ;)
Football is "Foot" and "ball"
Soccer is sock ..... Uh leave it
@John Doe i can give u more salt
Football = 🏈
Soccer = ⚽️
@John Doe 🏈 is football and ⚽️ is soccer for me.
Ball foot
FOOTBALL! FOOTBALL! FOOTBALL! FOOTBALL!
@John Doe you lose man
@Ufc cringe
Yes
@John Doe cringe
@John Doe what a comeback I'm impressed wow
It is football. If you call it soccer you are wrong and need to change.
No.
No dislike, its football. Its not a synonym.
It's not a synonym in most parts of the world, but in other parts it is.
Agreed 👍
you clearly don’t know what a synonym is then..
@@sjappiyah4071 sure african expert
@@hetiszeker-999 hahhhaha
Im an American and I call it football! AFC Bournemouth!
I call it football in these circles but european football to others in my daily life. Now I kinda wanna go back to soccer after seeing how ignorant the discussion is.
@@yummyjackalmeat ill say association football and American Football, myself. Soccer to me doesn't sound right.
@@DBSG1976 lol, what? That can't be even remotely true. No one would know wtf association football is, they'd still assume you were talking about American football.
Even when I say euro football, people are still confused and I end up just saying soccer, because that's one of the names of the sport weather we like it or not.
Just like countries have one name in some languages and another in the native language and yet another in other languages. It's just the way it is. There isn't a "right" way.
@@yummyjackalmeat I'm glad you know whats true in my life...I clarify if someone is confused, its not a hard concept.
Appreciate it
Soccer 😨😨😲
Football 😉👍🔥
@DeAndre DeAndre football
@John Doe “can you shut up” you’re acting like you haven’t replied on EVERY single other comment, but you’re the one telling me to shut up, and you sayin “did you even watch the video” was a VERY recurring theme in all your comments, yes I did watch the video, and I was explaining football ⚽️ is the beautiful game. I can understand why people call it soccer (because they already have football) and I can except people saying it, but I was explaining that football ⚽️ is the beautiful game.
@John Doe that’s what I just said..
⚽️
Soccer ⚽
In Australia it's used more interchangeably depending on who you're talking to or where you are. A notable example of how it's used interchangeably our national team the Socceroos are part of the FFA (Football Federation Australia). And all state & territories use 'Football' for their respective associations.
As a fellow Aussie also named Kirin you can also refer it to football and not confuse people with Australian Rules Football because we call it ‘footy’
It also depends on your upbringing, people of southern european descent (italian and greek) tend to say 'football' whilst most other australians will call it 'soccer'
But 90% + of Australian sporting fans in general - will still call it 'soccer'.. Soccer is an English word anyway; it originated in the UK!
Massive respect to Aguero for correctly informing the guy its football!!n when the narrator says the USA has become a force in football lololol and I'm an Arsenal fan btw
It's because in Latin America, we say "futbol" (football) too
@@francopavez5293 Rock yeah!
Only idiots care what others call it.
USA become a force in football memes
USA ia far from this , they go always in the World cup cause his zone is weak as fuck, there are africans countrys stronger than USA
"There's so many versions of football" and shows everyone holding the ball in the hands 😂
The FOOTBALL sport invented in ENGLAND that means BALÓN PIE FOOT PIE BALL BALÓN as its name indicates it is a sport that is played with a BALL and the FEET and is the most popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD long after the idiots of the USA they invented a "sport" that is a cheap copy of rugby and copied the name to the true original and real FOOTBALL, in addition to copying the name to another somewhat illegal sport, they wrongly copied the name because that "sport" that only exists and is consumed in the US is plays with the FOOTBALL HANDS has absolutely nothing, that is, they don't even use to copy names, they even do it wrong and then the shameless US have the audacity to change the name of their real FOOTBALL association only in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call real FOOTBALL "soccer" something that DOESN'T EXIST and only call their fake "sport" "football" insignificant cheap copy of rugby that only ex Is and is consumed in the USA
The United States Football Federation was founded on April 5, 1913 under the name of the United States Football Association. A year later, it was incorporated into FIFA in 1914. Until 1974 it was renamed to the current name United States Soccer Federation. In the USA the real FOOTBALL was also called by its name FOOTBALL as in the whole WORLD name that they just changed to their real FOOTBALL association in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call real FOOTBALL "soccer" and so they live in their unreal world falsified and fantasy poor stupid people
@@FernandoTieppo no one cares about medieval times dude. No foot, no football
The true name of Gridiron is hand ball or throw bowl
There's only one
@@cristianjuarez1086 Este no es un comentario muy astuto, amigo, te explicaron bien el origen del nombre, aceptalo, es la realidad.
Then why cant americans accept rugby is american football
Fair point
More like handegg
@@MuddyRavine bro all i ask is how could u name something "football" if u play with ur hands. Aussie rules is cool tho I like it
@@adityavenkatesan5423 Because you play on foot and not on horse or anything similar
@@merthayaloglu1475 tf I support football and not SoCcEr goddammit
As an american, I call it soccer around other americans. I call it football around people from the rest of the world just to avoid arguments.
Ikr, I get death threats every time for saying soccer
@@bull419 ok and?
I would do the same, at the end of the day, it's just a silly game.
As an American, I do prefer using the term "football," but I find myself causing confusion among my friends. I generally try to differentiate by using "American football" or "gridiron football" to refer to the game most of my friends watch on the weekend, but it often doesn't help.
It's a little easier when I'm visiting my fiancée in Canada, since hockey is their primary sport, and most people don't watch American football as religiously as their neighbors to the south.
Maybe we should start by "Soccer football" in opposition to American/Gridiron football" as a first step..?
Ice Hockey ?
Lived overseas 10 years, Spanish wife, I do exactly the same ... By habit I say Futball and use American football. No one in US seems to have an issue. They get it.
It's far simpler to call Football football and soccer soccer. These people wear socks up to their knees so the name is more than fitting.
Yeah, thats the same way we use in latin america. "AMERICAN" FOOTBALL ...to refeer to a game similar to Rugby. FUTBOL AMERICANO (In Spanish), as a convention in every spanish nation. Soccer sounds like a deprecation.
I think alot of people commenting here didnt even watch the video.
It is fun triggering them tho
The picture with "foot"/"ball" versus "hand"/"egg" was hilarious 😂😂😂
I'm Italian and I love both the footballs!
There's only one football
beacause that was the truth
we have no problem, we call it calcio
The other one his handegg
Both american football and soccer are played with both the feet and the hands and pretty much the whole body, the word foot means they play standing on their foot and not on horseback.
I don't understand what the big deal is. 🏈 = American football
⚽️ = kickball
= American throwball
0:53 😭I respect this guy
trueee
Just your average European baby
Its called soccer xD stay mad its soccer
@@Narmada_dance Its football
@@RapzFN if your British the jokes on you. The British. Who invented the game literally called it soccer first.
Least controversial name: Association Football.
Hey mate come on let's play association football
a name so awkward that the brits themselves invented “soccer” lol
Which is also known as soccer
@@robch.2901 lol. The English FA Cup becomes AFA Cup - Association Football Association Cup. 🙂
futebol, football is the right ways of refering to the greatest sport on earth
Futbol, Football, Calcio, Fussball, Soccer, etc. are all correct ways
the most boring sport on earth yeah
@@lp.shakurTry to watch football properly. You should've see the passion from the players and the fans, the rivalry between clubs, the celebrations, the fights on the pitch, the teamworks on the game, the tactical things, the respects between players, that's why football never gets me bored.
@@luckyzlugers7083 thats what we all got in real football, 10x better
@@lp.shakur pfff. Your handegg and basketball need a high point system to be entertained constantly, like children.
It's soccer in America, get over it crybabies.
Whoever calls it soccer should be burned at the stake
Oh cry me a river. Stop being a cultural imperialist
@@keraatkins7833 it’s a joke oh my god
@@keraatkins7833 Jesus mate 🤦♂️😂
@@keraatkins7833 woah god dang
@@thomasmarshall9884 jokes are supposed to be funny
Just a friendly reminder for all of us: Don't be a superior and just put yourself to the neutral situation.
True, watching the football-soccer discussion from space, the aliens will shake their heads. If they have heads, that is.
Way too much to ask.
so ok, don't be "superior" and simply call it: football. 90% of the globe will be happy. Thanx.
@@verdadyconfianza5416 lol, it wouldn't make you or anyone happy. You have too much hate in your heart. if it wasn't this you would just find something else.
@@JohnDoe-jy9nq hahaah!!! Well don't worry "mister equanimity". I wouldn't expected you will, either. I just got the satisfaction of take your mask off and show your real face up. Your simple double standards. Now anyone with logic can read it and draw their own conclusions; and won't be tricked by your fallacies and your role as a "fair person".
I think it’s fair to say it’s the brits that get angry the most. And I think it’s mainly because we love the sport so much. In a weird way, it is passion.
in the comments it seems to be south or mid-east Asians getting the most judgmental about the word soccer.
its fair to say you dont have the needed demographics at hand to state that
fact is, I am from germany and we go crazy when someone calls our game soccer, it is football
it is what it is
Which is ironic because they were the ones that coined the term.
We get offended here in Nigeria. The general feeling is that if you call it soccer, you're a bum
Germans get mad about it as well . I mean come one ball played with the foot … it’s soo simpel even you lost colonies should get that
its football no ⚽ soccer ok😡😠😠😠😡😡
Jimmy you don't know how lucky you were. Contradicting Zlatan and remaining alive to tell people 😂
Zlatan isn't scary to Americans. He's a pretty boy who'd last 5 minutes in a rough neighborhood before his mouth gets him beat down or shot.
I live in the US and I called it “SOCCER” but when I go on the Internet, I called “FOOTBALL” because of my love of the sport. ❤️⚽ (I'm from Asia btw)
good move 👍😆
@@wensvanwinkle Thanks man ❤️
that sounds like a eurosnob to me, but i am not afraid to say "soccer" in a very ignorant world
Dude I'm proud of you
The first American I saw In the comments who doesn't think that the world is limited to usa
Finally, I saw someone who is not ignorant and is an extrovert and wants to look out of his cereal bowl. Oh sorry super Bowl.
In Greece we call football ποδόσφαιρο which if you literally had to break the word down πόδο mean foot or feet σφαίρα literally means a sphere o something circular so it's still called football in Greece too
In India, we use our dumb accents to say PhOOtBoLL
@@srirampatnaik9164 bro me and my class from kerala call it foodball
The FOOTBALL sport invented in ENGLAND that means BALÓN PIE FOOT PIE BALL BALÓN as its name indicates it is a sport that is played with a BALL and the FEET and is the most popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD long after the idiots of the USA they invented a "sport" that is a cheap copy of rugby and copied the name to the true original and real FOOTBALL, in addition to copying the name to another somewhat illegal sport, they wrongly copied the name because that "sport" that only exists and is consumed in the US is plays with the FOOTBALL HANDS has absolutely nothing, that is, they don't even use to copy names, they even do it wrong and then the shameless US have the audacity to change the name of their real FOOTBALL association only in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call real FOOTBALL "soccer" something that DOESN'T EXIST and only call their fake "sport" "football" insignificant cheap copy of rugby that only ex Is and is consumed in the USA
The United States Football Federation was founded on April 5, 1913 under the name of the United States Football Association. A year later, it was incorporated into FIFA in 1914. Until 1974 it was renamed to the current name United States Soccer Federation. In the USA the real FOOTBALL was also called by its name FOOTBALL as in the whole WORLD name that they just changed to their real FOOTBALL association in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call real FOOTBALL "soccer" and so they live in their unreal world falsified and fantasy poor stupid people
I love it! In spanish it is called fútbol but there is an other old word too it is balonpie (ball foot)
@@zevchenko329
The original name of the sport is in the ENGLISH language because the most popular and popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD was invented in ENGLAND that is why its original name is in the ENGLISH language FOOTBALL "FÚTBOL" in the SPANISH language is only an adaptation of the original name in the ENGLISH language FOOTBALL to the SPANISH FÚTBOL language Adaptations are made in all languages, not only in SPANISH eg the country is called "ESPAÑA" and it is its original name but in ENGLISH they call it SPAIN because it is an adaptation "soccer" DOES NOT EXIST in ENGLISH language it is called FOOTBALL
I'm American and I refuse to call it "Soccer" it's Football and that's that.
DW Kick off!:
"We need to make a video addressing the comments section... This football/soccer argument is getting out of hand."
The comments section:
"What video? This argument will NEVER die."
Do you think we added fuel to that fire instead of extinguishing it, Nate?:)
@@dwkickoff please fire your staff who say "soccer", what a disgrace to the beautiful game
@@sebgosling i hope you know that it's the same sport, and the fans that call it soccer have the same love for the game that you do, get your head out of your ass
@@jc12szn if they would love it they would call it football
@@jc12szn The same love perhaps...but the same understanding? Sorry, but I doubt that somehow hahaha
I'm a brazilian living in Australia and even though sometimes there's conflict with the use of the word football (as I'll never use soccer), they're pretty open to it. Many people here agrees that the sport that kicks a ball should be called football.
But the fact they call AFL as footy, helps a lot.
@ProudOfYourRoots I know I know 🤣 but down here it works pretty well. They have they're f#cking nonsense footy and I got my football. Works for everyone 🤣
Yeah as an Aussie i'd like to call it football but it can be confused with Aussie rules, rugby when talking to others
In Brazil we are taught in English lectures that the English word for "football" is "soccer". I see that they teach the same thing in Japan for instance.
In Portuguese we call it "futebol", which is our way to pronounce "football" as you may have guessed
@ProudOfYourRoots and we also call it "football" in our daily Portuguese speaking lives
But the aunts teaching our kids the English language are not much aware of those kind of things and they just read "soccer" in their American text books and they tell the kids that this is how it's called
@ProudOfYourRoots bro, I guess you need to read a few more times what I've written there.
We know for a fact that football was brought to Brazil by a man called charles miller. He was descent of Scottish and English and he is arguably a guy who introduced football here and for that reason, we call it football
What you seem not to get is that English is not our first language and when we are studying it at school and learning our first words (dog, cat, table, tree, house...) we learn that the English word for football is "soccer"
If you still don't get it, you won't get it.
Obviously, as I already said, some schools will teach British English, but most schools teach the American English here
And it may be easy for you to understand that Portugal is more likely to study British English, while Brazil is more likely to study American English 👍
A game that is played by the foot 99 percent of the time in each game should be called Football....Not soccer
As a Brazilian who calls it Futebol, and who decades ago had dial up internet fights with Americans regarding the word soccer, I nowadays always try to remember that one of the greatest footballing nations call it... CALCIO
Calcio é um dos jeitos mais loucos de se falar futebol mesmo
But one thing about Brazil is that most English schools would teach you that the English word for footbal is "soocer" (obviously it may not be the case in some, such as _cultura inglesa_ where they teach you weird stuff such as "centre", "metre", "litre" etc)
Para de passar vergonha cara.
A gente Calcia la palla
Remate a bola
@@mgtt4301 passar vergonha de que maneira, filhote?
Os cara joga futebol com leite?
In Papua New Guinea the majority of people call it SOCCER since we were once a colony of Australia before and also because we call rugby league FOOTY or FOOTBALL sometimes.
The whole conversation about the rest of the world feeling defensive because we are afraid of football domination by USA is utter bullshit.
I've never heard that argument. I've always out it down to classic anti-Americanism. Because the terms were synonymous until MLS. Even in England, where the usage was invented.
Cookies aren't biscuits. Wow. The level of lunacy is insane. LMFAO
scandal!
Madness!
We don't say Soccer in Ireland we differentiate football and gaelic by simply calling it "gaelic" or "gaa football". You call football, soccer in Ireland and you are getting a boot or these words will be shouting at you.. "Hey dude!! you a fucking American now?".
This video is surely made by an American that's why they also included Ireland in "soccer calling countries" to fight against "football calling countries"
So the Irish guy in the video is lying?
@@sjappiyah4071 There are no Irish man in the video? His Scottish and all he said was if he was talking so someone Irish about Football he'd ask if he was talking about Gaelic football or normal football.
@John Doe idk i've been to different countries and never got shouted at . Probably because Trump ruined America in the past 4 years
@John Doe ik me too
American logic:
USA: "So...how call this sport?"
"We play with a elidsoid mainly with the hands...i don't know..."
Random guy" What abaut "Football"?
USA: "Omg it's Genius!"
"Brillant!"
"Make me pregnant you smart man!"
@DHS5 WRLD Even if you're not a fan of American Football, I appreciate that you corrected this person on how the name came about for the sport. Rugby was also originally called football, because the main point of that game was originally the part where you actually do use the foot to kick the ball through the goal posts. As variations increased, even with more and more of the game focused on play involving the hands, the name stuck.
Don’t think you watched the video. The British coined the terms “soccer” and “ruggers”. The game was played by British aristocracy in Oxford and only became “Football” when it moved to the working class.
@DHS5 WRLD lol stfu American football is the best
lol you brits invented that word so you can't be mad 🤣
The reason Americans call football (soccer) is they have another sports called Football which is ironically 95% of it is played with hands
I have no problem with them calling Soccer
You are a considerate person, thank you
It should be called a handegg not football
@@marcosjavier4901 However it's called football, not handegg. Kickball on the other hand is self-explanatory.
SOCCER
@@phillip_iv_planetking6354 FOOTBALL
we call it soccer get used to it
Then get used to being mocked.
@Trump lost, move on 🤡
Cookies and Biscuits are not the same thing
YOU'RE RIGHT.
Damn right pal!
Football fans complaining about the word 'soccer' are worse than Italians complaining about any innovative Italian recipe that isn't exactly the way their grandmother used to make it.
If you don't like it, just move on...
Absolutely! But please do not add garlic to the bolognese, nor olive oil, and always stir clockwise.
Calling something red, green, only muddles the speech. Ask Or well.
UK & rest of the world: Football
Italians: Calcio
US: Soccer
Georgia: Fekhburti
Germans say Fußball Same like English just translated
Hotel: trivago
Japan historically didn't use "football". Blame them Oxford boys for spreading it around the world.
sipabola, soccer, football, calcio, futbol, futebol, fussball are all the same
i wonder why people even care about this... imagine having those arguments why americans call it pit road and we call it pit lane... it's just stupid, pointless argument
Nobody Gaf at pitlane....football is beloved..its more abt manipulative America and how ppl dont bow to what the world uses
@@omkarbarve1974 we ain't bowing to shit you people use, stupidest thing I've heard in my life, thinking you rule the world or something
@John Doe you literally said that in every other comment and someone even proved you wrong and oh still comment it
@@omkarbarve1974 You sound stupid lmfao, too bad your country can’t develop your own professional sport. Go tell italians to call soccer/footy football instead of calico, see how they react.
@John Doe from 8 bilion people, only usa, australia, canada, japan use word socceer, so almost other 6 bilion call ot football
The world : football
Canada, usa : soccer
australia, new zealand, ireland: soccer
@@joaquingonzalez834
The term soccer originated from England, and it's used in US, Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Philippines and some other pacific islander countries.
I don't get why football fans get so triggered over a word. It's like they are insecure that their favorite sport is football. And it's not hard to understand why they are so insecure if you watch the sport and compare it with other sports.
A trashing score of 3-0, is called three nil. Not three zero.
Since when is American football known to the rest of the world as "Gridiron"?? I'd swear she makes it up as she goes along.
they call it that in Australia actually
American football's full name is Gridiron Football because the field looks like a gridiron
Is this a Joke?
Idk if it is but, yeah it is in fact called *Grid Iron* a much cooler name but they took "football" even though they already got a better name.
You're right. Here in my country we call it Fredonian Hand-egg 🤣🤣🤣
I call it gridiron. They call ours soccer, my little revenge: am small-minded like that
Soccer : No confusion as to what it is. You might get some eye rolls, but it's clear.
Football : "Which one? American or...?"
There's just less confusion. The purpose of a language is to convey meaning and to get your point across. Even though football makes more sense (uses your foot), in real life, it is actually less convenient. At least on the internet where it has become so Americanized.
So much this: "The purpose of a language is to convey meaning and to get your point across."
If I start talking about "football" to British people with my Canadian/ North American accent, they usually ask me "do you mean our football or your football"? Because they don't expect me to use the more common international word for it, so it actually ends up being pretty confusing.
As I understand it, "Soccer" is a shortened slang term for "Association Football", which is (or at least was) the full name of common football, which was used to differentiate it from other versions of the sport, which either died out, or evolved into the other forms of football that we know today. So, as I understand it, both "soccer" and "football" are shortened versions of the same name.
Most people don't realize that both versions of football evolved from the same sport. Australian Football, Rugby, and Gaelic football are three other good examples. I find Gaelic football interesting because it's the one version of football (that I know of) which has easily recognizable similarities to both American football as well as to common football.
These guys in Oxford messed up, bro.
Why call a game played with hands like 80% of the time FOOTBALL? The ones from the association football should be mad at the other guys
@@phzitos_Because the history of football was responsable for the name, it doesnt matter if american football use hand too, is football like association football.
I'm not an American, but I think it's pathetic and rude try to correct who says the word Soccer, that was invented by England.
italians: calcio
everyone else: 😴😴😴
americans: soccer
everyone else: 😡😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬
Italians contributed so much to the game, they can call it whatever they like.
The word Calcio came first before football and soccer because during the late middle ages and renaissance period, Italy played a cracked version of football called “Calcio Fiorentino.” It is still played in Florence until this day. Hence the reason why Italians call it Calcio instead of Football but Italians that speak english call it football so your argument is therefore wrong and invalid because in the end of the day it’s FOOTBALL not Soccer.
@John Doe Look I’m American and I call it football and it’s really common sense to know that this 🏉 is rugby and this ⚽️ is football and this 🏈 is gridiron. It really doesn’t make any sense to me that you call this 🏈 sport football when they don’t even use their feet to control the ball the whole game whereas this ⚽️ football actually requires to use your feet to control the ball the entire game.
@John Doe There’s no need to use the word soccer when you can distinguish between those three sports it’s that simple
@John Doe hey its u on the comment
This whole Video just felt like pandering to American audiences. The Argument about the Word coming from England is pretty unnecessary too as the entire fucking english language comes from there and language is constantly evolving so why should it be a valid Argument how a Word was used 100 years ago?
Ikr....Deutsche welle also licks American bots...look hiw they said its football but rest of world calls it gridiron...what di they think of themselves...yes they excel at almost everything but that dont mean they can do Bs without getting hate
The point of the argument is that the term “ soccer” is of British creation so Brits shouldn’t be mad at other people’s usage of it..
@@sjappiyah4071 but the counterpoint is so did the entire language, but hundreds of words fall out of use for one reason or another and sometimes get kicked off the dictionary all together and become unrecognized. It's like Morrow and Facetious, sure those words might exist still and are words with everyday definitions, but there are OTHER more valid and global words that are much better to use, same with soccer and football, if you say soccer it's like you using an old English word that has been since replaced by another more used word
@@noname-hf9ty Yes , Likewise if Americans were to say “ facetious “ instead of sarcastic, being mad at that individual would be idiotic. As they are synonymous words with the same origin, solely one nation chose to stop saying it. Language evolves differently , in different societies.
Getting upset at America, Canada, and other nations for keeping around a old word that United Kingdom themselves created, is a foolish anger in my opinion
@@sjappiyah4071 for me it's relatively justified as it brings alot of confusion if you are to say Facetious, but if you are to just say sarcastic there would be no confusion, it just comes down to who you talk to, do you want to socialize with non-americans? Say football, personally if you are solely with Americans say soccer I don't give a shit, just don't take the word and use it with the rest of the world, adapt to where you are geographically is the point I'm trying to make
Im Dutch, we call it voetbal. Foot and ball, simple. I agreed with this video all along, thinking how this divide seems unreal to me... it is football!
But then in the end,. talking about field or pitch I noticed some hypocricy in me. In Dutch we call it a veld (field), I think we use this word also for meadow.
Pitch does not sound (to me) as unnatural as soccer. Me and my friends can use that word in some occasions, but we are all fanatic football fans (Ajax Amsterdam) and wee all are interested in the British football scene (mostly outside the stadiums). I think for an average Dutch witthout my specific interest the word pitch sounds alien.
And while I am talking about the word pitch, I think of baseball before I think of football...
You know what... let the yanks keep their names, and the Brittish theirs. Instead of getting anrgy when someone uses the "wrong" word, lets embrace the different evolution of sports in our countries.
And there is 1 thing, all over the world, if its soccer, football, rugby or what form so ever... WE ALL LOVE OUR SPORTS WITH A GOOD BEER!!!
In China, we also call it football without a doubt. Football is as self-explanatory to anyone that Foot-足, ball-球 simply combie two words from daily life.
@@weishunzhang8988 去少林寺
I'm a big football fan.
I personally feel that it's alright for North Americans and Australians to use the word ' soccer ' within their countries. After all, it's the popular term and everyone can understand it there.
But, when they have a conversation with foreigners, I would like them to say it ' football '. Just because of the fact that the most understandable word for the rest of the world is football ⚽
Fair.
True
@CommunistPotato el FOOTBALL es el deporte más grande popular practicado y amado del MUNDO
El rugby falsificado versión yanqui sólo existe y se consume en EEUU es tan MIERDA esa copia barata del rugby que nunca ni siquiera logró salir de EEUU que triste que lamentable
The FOOTBALL sport invented in ENGLAND that means BALÓN PIE FOOT PIE BALL BALÓN as its name indicates it is a sport that is played with a BALL and the FEET and is the most popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD long after the idiots of the USA they invented a "sport" that is a cheap copy of rugby and copied the name to the true original and real FOOTBALL, in addition to copying the name to another somewhat illegal sport, they wrongly copied the name because that "sport" that only exists and is consumed in the US is plays with the FOOTBALL HANDS has absolutely nothing, that is, they don't even use to copy names, they even do it wrong and then the shameless US have the audacity to change the name of their real FOOTBALL association only in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call real FOOTBALL "soccer" something that DOESN'T EXIST and only call their fake "sport" "football" insignificant cheap copy of rugby that only ex Is and is consumed in the USA
The United States Football Federation was founded on April 5, 1913 under the name of the United States Football Association. A year later, it was incorporated into FIFA in 1914. Until 1974 it was renamed to the current name United States Soccer Federation. In the USA the real FOOTBALL was also called by its name FOOTBALL as in the whole WORLD name that they just changed to their real FOOTBALL association in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call real FOOTBALL "soccer" and so they live in their unreal world falsified and fantasy poor stupid people
@CommunistPotato it was the original name for international football, so when American football was popularized, soccer was used to differentiate itself from other sports.
The debate has always been about 'soccer' vs 'football' meanwhile 'calcio', 'sepakbola' and 'nogometna' never been invited to debate lol
I think the difference is that those other words are actually from different languages. Where as the words soccer and football are both English words
@@taseenalrashid4168 That doesn't mean anything. There are so many dialects of English. My cousins call the water faucet a "spigot" because that's what their families called it for generations. They might be in the minority but it isn't wrong. Languages developed in a world where change was slow. It was never meant to be globalized or changed overnight. Let people speak how they speak.
In Indonesian and Malay language the word "sepak" meant "kick" in English. So it still related to the foot.
@@taseenalrashid4168 yeah man!!! because they always want to impose some terms according to their own "interpretations."
Calcio, sepak and nogometna all mean football to some extent. Soccer barely represents the game as kicking the ball with the foot.
I would understand the war over these two names, IF THEY WERE CAUSING ISSUES IN TRANSLATION. But no, everybody knows that "Football" and "Soccer" ARE THE SAME THING. Language evolves people. How come we dont have a war over "Hello" and "Hi"? Or "Hola" and "Hello"? Cuss they mean the same thing and the only difference is where you were born and in what year.
no lo entiendes, sólo llámale football y listo, no quieras quedar bien con el "videito" este ni buscarle justificaciones ridículas!
It's football cause it's played with your foot. Only Americans say it Socks or whatever. What's the logic behind your football Americans. Do they even play with their foot or something related to foot.
@@FCBLukas The logic is that it's just a different code, just like rugby football or Australian Rules football. The games called "football" got their names from being on foot instead of on horseback like polo.
Come here when World Cup happening. It's Football. Because the majority of time you playing it using foot.
People have become so soft that a word is enough to anger them.
It's football cause it's football. It's that simple.
@John Doe yes
@John Doe Call it soccer if you want. I share Agüero's view on this.
@John Doe Alright thanks John. Now I see... It's still football.
Language is far from simple. People dedicate their lives to studying it. It would be awfully convenient if it was something simple you could brush off. Then you wouldn't have to face your baltent elitism, but also complicated, blind hatred for others.
@@youprobablyjusthaveapophen7094 I'd really like to know more about this elitism and blind, complicated hatred. I suppose only someone so eloquent as you can explain this to me?
Most salient point of the whole video: People who say football hate those who call the game soccer. People who say soccer couldn‘t care less one way or the other. What happens when you declare war but the other side doesn‘t show up to fight?
@@BrownDusky I was born an American but have lived half my life in Europe. When I speak to Americans (and the Irish), I say soccer. When I speak to other Europeans, I say football. It's deceptively simple, but everybody understands me.
@@petergeyer7584 Irish calls it football not soccer
True....but this vid isnt a war move?? They said USA call it football and others gridiron...how arrogant. US is a part of the world not viceversa....but I respect you fr being polite
Actually americans care more that you say football instead of soccer. I met more angry americans than europeans.
@@pingwinner_ Bullcrap, Americans don’t get butthurt that easily lool
We should never call it soccer because the whole world should call it football
No one in America even cares about the "debate." We say soccer and literally everyone we talk to knows exactly what we mean without question. The argumemt is completely one sided because there is no argument to have. Commentors must be really bored, privileged, or have a lot wrong with their life to get so worked up over people in different parts of the world speaking differently.
😂
Facts 💯
Exactly!
What’s so bad about being privileged
Idk what ur on about ur the one making an entire harry potter book about it we just get mad for 2 seconds then get on with our days....
I'm in America and I call it soccer. Deal with it.
and i call this 🏈 hand egg
@@shrimpadoodle365 An “handegg” is a *JOKE!!!*
I never get the impression that North Americans are forcing us to use the word "soccer" internationally just as Italians don't force use to change the sport name into "kick" (calcio). If anything, I have bigger impression of international fans forcing USA to change their "American Football" into other names, which north Americans happen to not care about those opinions. They may ask us to call it soccer in their land but I don't see why I have to be stuck up not to do so, just as I'd call the sport ball-kick if I'm in Malaysia.
Our teams are called FC whatever. We accept football as a valid name, but because American Football has been around LONG before large scale globalization, context would matter. Language is odd, no use fighting it. It isn't the first time and it won't be the last time, but football being the sport that it is, it's probably the most popular, and thus most overly simplified quirk of language there has ever been.
No one is forcing you to call it soccer, it’s technically the other way around, I don’t have to call it football because you are offended, I’m calling it soccer
@@anthonybisesi482 I agree with you. I don't have anything against N.Americans calling the sport soccer. I don't even mind calling it soccer if I'm there or if I'm in group chats of predominantly of N.American members. But you are wrong in saying no one is forcing internet people to call it soccer, there has been to many cases bro. Some even went to say that all internet people should follow N.American terms because internet is from U.S. I'm tired of face-palming each time I encounter those clueless bigots.
I mean if you’re a foreigner in the US and call it football it’s totally understandable but might confuse them as to which you’re talking about. Nobody would feel offended though. We know what you guys call it and just don’t really care tbh
Doesn't matter, call something what it is. America doesn't have the benefit of the doubt of speaking another language like other countries do.
the real answer is: britain's cultural insecurity over americans.
Bingo!
So much this. And then Latin Americans fans joined in, too.
It's ALWAYS going to be FOOTBALL.
Nothing to argue about.
Nobody who calls it Soccer has any problem with it being football or called football by anyone else. The sport is actually called “association football”, and either common name is an abbreviation of that.
So why the panties bunched up over the English speaking world (unless it’s in the UK) calling it Soccer? How and why does that shake your existence?
It's soccer In Australia
It's funny when people who call it soccer doesn't ask people it's only soccer but people who call it foot ball say it's only football 🏈
How very dare you come round here with your facts and logic being all right n'shit!
It's football. - Period. :D
Sorry for the facts!
It's football so stfu
@John Doe Football is the correct answer not soccer i mean sucker
@John Doe Ok I will say it again you know who organize the world Cup for football ? It's the FIFA and do you know what FIFA means in english ? It means *International Federation of Association Football* so if americans want to enter in the world cup they will have to say football and not soccer
@John Doe or they can simply stay with soccer in their own country but remember one thing is that the most viewed sport in the world is the World football cup and nobody can change the name
Soccer, because it's less confusing, as intended by the English when the game was codified. Or football, whatever makes you understandable.
To claim that it should be called "football," though, simply because of the kicking action is not a good argument. Are goals scored as headers not legal? How many times do the goalkeepers block with their hands without penalty? How often do the other players use their hands to throw the ball into play, as stipulated by the rules? The ball is also trapped frequently with the chest, and play goes on normally. The rules do not even require players to control the ball with their feet; rather, the rules merely restrict when players may use their hands to control the ball. Common use of the feet is really just because of gravity, when you think about it.
"Soccer" definitely rolls off better than "Usually-Handless Ball."
0:01 he dared challenged the mighty zlatan
There's only one football. Thats what Messi and Ronaldo play.
No Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers play football. Messi and penaldo play soccer
@@nickn9244 What's a Tom Brady? Sounds like a ladies drink...
@@aldobonaso3481 Tom Brady can kick ur ass with his hand tied. Don’t put shame on his name. Soccer oussy
@@nickn9244 I still don't know what a Tom Brady is...oh is it a name for a style that ladies can shave their downstairs curtains?
I love how you guys made a video to tell everyone to get over themselves over the word.
😁
Like it's gonna stop people. A game played with a ball, using your feet is football. Simple as that.
But, still here I am not CONVINCE ...it's call "FOOTBALL" with an capital 'F'
@John Doe how does playing a game what you use 99% of the time with your hands should be called "foot"ball
makes no sense its rugby not football
its about culture something usa knows nothing about and respecting culture that something usa is famous for disrespecting others culture.
this is nothing about anti americanism.
💯% Poland call it football
This is the most controversial discussion among football fans.
@John Doe You reply at literally every comment like it's a big deal. Most like it football because most of the game is played on foot. Soccer word is hated because fans don't like getting ripped off of the name just because there is another sport name that doesn't even deserve it.
Even if in originated in Britain, it's just a nickname.
@John Doe That's the problem. Too many sports in one name. Should be segregated better, and more importantly, consider which actually used feet to touch the ball directly.
@John Doe and the American one gets to keep football without having to use the foot at all times.
@John Doe You are repeating your statements. I see it in too many replies already. I have my stand and you have yours. I'm tired of this.
@John Doe But popularized by the USA
MLS: Major Soccer League
MLS clubs: Use F.C.
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*Major League Soccer, also it's not that important. I think both are accepted in America as words meaning the same thing, we don't even care. It's mainly Europeans who get really angry over someone calling the sport soccer.
@@DaBig_Cheese 👹👹👹
@@DaBig_Cheese No but what pissed me off the most is that people thinking its only "brit'ish" and "Europeans" who use the word football which is incorrect 99.9999 percent of the world uses the world football because it makes SENSE u use ur foot to kick a ball. Makes sense dont it?
@@1nternalAudios you might be right, but it’s definitely that category that is saying that “football not soccer” thing.
You play with your feet 99% of the time so it’s football and not soccer.
Funny because American football uses their feet 100% of the time. So do Aussie, Rugby, and Gaelic football players. But I am trying to figure out the 1% of the time soccer players aren't standing on their feet while playing? (Insert flopping joke here)
@@MrMM1007 football not runleg
@@manchesterunited35-2 Isn't there a children's section of RUclips where you might feel more at home?
@@MrMM1007 thanks for the info. I'll be sure to check it out
All the brits on here angry over this when sky sports main show is literally called “Soccer Saturday”
GG
the tv shows don’t represent the people
Funny how most of the comments are filled with people who didn’t watch the video, along with the dislikes.
true but is FOOTBALL
@@mrextrapotente you're proving my point man
@@Ace-uc5cj With my sincere intentions I want to give thanks for your interest point of view and I hope that our discussion will be helpful to many of our people wachting this video...........
but is FOOTBALL
@@mrextrapotente ok i guess you can say its football or what but I don't here brits saying "ITS CHIPS NOT FRIES" or "ITS CRISPS NOT CHIPS" or "ITS AUTUMN NOT FALL". Would you stop making fun of calling it soccer.
@@Ace-uc5cj it’s still football mate 😂😂
Soccer.
Football is more common
Football is the term because it is played with foot. It is as simple as that. American football in which just to kick a ball once, and then you grab the ball with her and that is not Football.
It's a non-issue because language is contextual. We can assume in the US that football means American Football unless stated otherwise, or in conjunction with other terms (football pitch, football match, etc.). We can assume likewise in the UK, Nigeria, etc. that 'football' means Association Football. Even in the US, 'football' and 'soccer' are used interchangeably by the media regarding Association Football games, and the MLS uses British English terms almost exclusively -- boots instead of cleats, nil instead of zero, match instead of game, kit instead of uniform, and so on.
Yes Americans are more than willing to adopt words, just getting an entire nation to change their language or thinking it's wrong for them to just follow their own tradition and speak their own dialect is pretty messed up.
Foot=🦶ball=⚽️ ...or... foot=🖐ball=🏈?
😂😂😂😂😂
Wow never heard that one in my life
@PRINCIPEGAA No es la primera vez que lo hacen,ya antes ya se habían robado el nombre del continente solo para ellos
@PRINCIPEGAA En Canadá y Japón también le dicen soccer porque son las sucursales de EE.UU. xD
A round object is generally called a ball.
British people call Americans immature but look at them! Arguing over a word!
Ha!!! Gottem!!!
And the irony of this argument is that the reason football spread so quickly across the world is that the leftovers of the British Empire was everywhere after colonizing a huge chunk of the world and taking as much of the resources they could get their hands on. Soccer spread because the British invaded everywhere.
@@dwayn1007 Next level nuclear incoming!!!
I’m the war between “Football” and “Soccer”, “Calcio” always ends up losing.
Its ridiculous that they compare this to AnTi AmErIcAn
It's ridiculous that you think this is a complete thought. I don't think you're the one to coach others about english.
I mean the dislike word soccer also really stems from dislike of the US. I don't mean that in a derogatory way, in my opinion it's very much justified, but words have connotations and that's one of them.
Its like tell a spanish person”ITS HELLO NOT HOLA” like stfu
football
@John Doe football
Americans love to think they are the world. They even think Basketball and American Football are the most popular sports in the world. Feet + Ball
I love Football but I do have to say for some reason Football is losing popularity
@@bigzone1117 i don't think so. I think some sports are gaining popularity yes but not at the expense of football.
We dont think that, those are just popular sports here.
I heard Chalarmagne tha God arguing that American football is more popular than football on national radio.
@@elitepenmanshipwars don't know who the f that is. But a single popular rapper is a pretty shit sample size
Did y’all know that soccer is short for association football peep assoc? And use to be used as a nickname in England? Some countries even call it soccer in countries outside the US.
Look Walker interview,he's a player in the england team,he refused to tell soccer in a interview,football got out before football american
@@Anoo94 what ..
@@Anoo94 don't call it football it's insulting. A gamble in a cereal bowl,oh sorry super bowl ain't a sport.
@@Anoo94 what the shit are you taking about mate.