Why Is Football Called Soccer In The USA?

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  • Опубликовано: 22 ноя 2024

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  • @NameExplain
    @NameExplain  6 лет назад +210

    Hey guys! There won’t be any videos next week as I’m away but there’ll be videos the week after. See you soon!

    • @veetee355
      @veetee355 6 лет назад +3

      Ok

    • @informallyinfernal9002
      @informallyinfernal9002 6 лет назад +2

      Hey Patrick
      Nobody in our India calls football as futabol
      But a great video BTW
      best of luck for your future endeavors as always

    • @patricklo1514
      @patricklo1514 6 лет назад

      So what did Indian actually call football?

    • @informallyinfernal9002
      @informallyinfernal9002 6 лет назад

      Patrick Lo just football
      Like rest if the world

    • @MatthewMcVeagh
      @MatthewMcVeagh 6 лет назад +2

      Rugby League vs. Rugby Union?
      Australian Rules Football?
      Gaelic Football?

  • @abhithp
    @abhithp 6 лет назад +694

    No one here in India use the word 'Futabol' we use the word Football

    • @parthbonde2106
      @parthbonde2106 6 лет назад +24

      ikr

    • @wg_spiritomb
      @wg_spiritomb 6 лет назад +77

      Futa, huh, sounds like a genre that i would never explore.

    • @mesobad3211
      @mesobad3211 6 лет назад +7

      Ash Kechum bro why whould you tell that

    • @LARAUJO_0
      @LARAUJO_0 6 лет назад +28

      There are plenty of languages in India and probably at least one of them calls it Futabol

    • @rafaelcalvo3516
      @rafaelcalvo3516 6 лет назад +13

      futebol is called in Brazil.

  • @abrokatec
    @abrokatec 6 лет назад +1546

    American Rugby is a much better name 👏

    • @mduardo
      @mduardo 5 лет назад +56

      Unitedstatian/USA Rugby 🏈

    • @WolverinePete
      @WolverinePete 5 лет назад +63

      We already call it football, so why change?

    • @libidum
      @libidum 5 лет назад +325

      @@WolverinePete Because you barely use your feet, and don't tell me it's called football because "the ball is one foot long".

    • @WolverinePete
      @WolverinePete 5 лет назад +85

      @@libidum It doesnt matter how much or little its kicked. We have "football" and your other countries have "soccer". We honestly dont care what you call what we play or what you play. Soccer is a British word anyway.

    • @teddyayele8273
      @teddyayele8273 5 лет назад +50

      Wolverine Pete because we wanna call it how we want

  • @StFrancisEnjoyer
    @StFrancisEnjoyer 6 лет назад +885

    It must be called Football because it is played with the foot and not with the socc

    • @ratlinggull2223
      @ratlinggull2223 6 лет назад +91

      s o c c

    • @prinzvonmalaya4966
      @prinzvonmalaya4966 6 лет назад +12

      Augusto Jr oy vey

    • @LARAUJO_0
      @LARAUJO_0 6 лет назад +62

      What if you're wearing socks?

    • @zachrose359
      @zachrose359 6 лет назад +3

      Sholom

    • @jmal
      @jmal 6 лет назад +10

      Some maneuvers in the sport require you to use your shins to hit the ball. Apart from the shin guards, what is it covered in?
      That's right. A SOCk.
      Also, if you were to call that game football, use of the hands in throw-ins should be banned, as well as the keeper using their hands, and no contact of the ball with the body or head should be made.
      So it's only proper to call it SOCCER. Mostly because it pisses you off. And it's easier to rhyme.

  • @theJellyjoker
    @theJellyjoker 6 лет назад +792

    Football isn't football unless it's football.

  • @jasepoag8930
    @jasepoag8930 6 лет назад +91

    So like many English words, the Brits came up with the original word/spelling, then abandoned the original word, and then mock everyone else for still using the original word.

    • @strawberry.teapot
      @strawberry.teapot 6 лет назад +29

      Yeah, the English seem a very cheery and agreeable bunch.

    • @thegod4281
      @thegod4281 4 года назад +9

      we haven’t abandoned the original word it was ‘association football’ and that was form the upper class who didn’t even liek the game. i’m sure you’ve got class stereotypes in america but over here they toffs and they don’t play it. the whole of the country has used football forever cos we don’t all hve monacles snd top hats

    • @Alan_Mac
      @Alan_Mac 4 года назад +5

      Only pathetic thickos and plebs mock people for using 'soccer'. The rest of us don't give a fuck.

    • @krup787
      @krup787 4 года назад

      m.ruclips.net/video/H4TyIsaIRQ0/видео.html

    • @annoyingguyoninternet1631
      @annoyingguyoninternet1631 3 года назад +4

      You know the name soccer sucks when the country originated no longer use it. Just like imperial system US use it but the country that INVENTED IT no longer use it.

  • @markdp1983
    @markdp1983 6 лет назад +82

    Soccer is a British term still occasionally used there for the sport they invented..... The British word "Soccer" was later used in the USA and Australia because those countries already had their own versions of football by the time Association Football arrived there..... Its not hard!!!

    • @thatbg3357
      @thatbg3357 5 лет назад +2

      @Mark DP you will never find a British person who will cal it soccer u Twat

    • @theterrar3566
      @theterrar3566 5 лет назад +7

      @@thatbg3357Lots of Rugby fans call it soccer. Only insecure fairies get offended when someone calls their favourite sport soccer which is a right word

    • @thatbg3357
      @thatbg3357 5 лет назад +2

      tt btw, i didn’t get offended i just said no British Person calls it soccer which is true

    • @theterrar3566
      @theterrar3566 5 лет назад +3

      @@thatbg3357 But they do. When England won the world cup the newspapers said they won the soccer world cup. Read any british newspaper prior to 2000s and you'll get what I'm saying. Plenty of rugby fans call it soccer as well. No one in Britain had any problem regarding the word 'soccer' until a generation of butthurt British kids chose to get offended over someone calling 'potayto' 'patahto'. Seriously, these guys sound like feminists arguing over equal pay.

    • @thatbg3357
      @thatbg3357 5 лет назад

      tt England won the World cup last time in 1966 So maybe a few people and a couple of newspapers called it soccer back then but nobody does anymore, I have friends who play rugby and they call this ⚽️ football, I know that all of them hate the American one though cuz they say it’s rugby for pussies

  • @citiesskyscrapers4561
    @citiesskyscrapers4561 6 лет назад +512

    Handegg looks like a great name.

  • @hijtohema
    @hijtohema 6 лет назад +101

    Association Football still is the official name for the game. The acronym of its governing body FIFA stands for Federation Internationale de Football Association, the International Federation of Association Football

    • @deaundrebondscheeks2
      @deaundrebondscheeks2 4 года назад +1

      @Spiros Pa Nope, I call it FIFA like the rest of the world.

    • @deaundrebondscheeks2
      @deaundrebondscheeks2 4 года назад +9

      @Spiros Pa But Soccer is a shortened version of the full name of the sport I'm pretty sure the video explained it. But if you're still gonna complain about the name then this conversation will be very short.

    • @haseebpavaratty6249
      @haseebpavaratty6249 4 года назад

      @Spiros Pa 🤣

    • @_Jake.From.Statefarm_
      @_Jake.From.Statefarm_ 2 года назад +2

      @@deaundrebondscheeks2 So you like to call it by it's abbreviated name, but soccer is off limits? Cause that makes sense?

    • @maxropercalvo6132
      @maxropercalvo6132 Год назад +1

      FOOTBALL has been called FOOTBALL since it was created in ENGLAND until today 2023. It NEVER changed its name or had another name and it was NEVER EVER called "soccer"
      The terms "soccer" and "rugger" were just NICKNAMES used by a few Englishmen a long time ago to call FOOTBALL and RUGBY and their use was not even popular even as NICKNAMES, these terms were only used as NICKNAMES by a few Englishmen later never again these terms were not even used as NICKNAMES and the few English people who used these terms as NICKNAMES stopped using them
      "soccer" isn't even a word, it's the abbreviation of the word ASSOCIATION, that's why the USA got ridiculed to change the name of its real FOOTBALL association only in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call it like this to the true original and real FOOTBALL the biggest popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD and so they live in their unreal falsified and fantasy world poor stupid people
      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.

  • @queenfanatic195
    @queenfanatic195 6 лет назад +233

    In Ireland, "football" to us means Gaelic football (which also uses hands) and so despite being so close to the UK, we say soccer too

    • @lulu-ex2zg
      @lulu-ex2zg 5 лет назад +33

      Orlagh Nic Fhionnbhairr soccer is a better name lol

    • @kaizer521
      @kaizer521 5 лет назад +25

      Never Had a life not really football you play with your feet so football is way better name

    • @workspaceofduc
      @workspaceofduc 5 лет назад +22

      @@lulu-ex2zg Soccer is the name for suckers. It's football by the way

    • @spudson60fps35
      @spudson60fps35 5 лет назад +11

      @@lulu-ex2zg In your fuxking Dream.american Kid

    • @spudson60fps35
      @spudson60fps35 5 лет назад +5

      @@lulu-ex2zg your username Matches Get A Life And Prove A Point

  • @phantomgold3255
    @phantomgold3255 4 года назад +455

    *Imagine a sport where you use hands and squares but it is called "football"*

    • @fxrnweh-hd5dq
      @fxrnweh-hd5dq 4 года назад +53

      Ikr
      It makes no sense lol

    • @phantomgold3255
      @phantomgold3255 4 года назад +4

      Guys stop, i wasn't talking about football or soccer, look *"squares"* read bruh, i was making up another sport

    • @phantomgold3255
      @phantomgold3255 4 года назад

      @@Jacob-hm1th but its not a ball

    • @phantomgold3255
      @phantomgold3255 4 года назад +1

      @Remus *"you guys are weird"* you guys??? You we're talking to 1 person

    • @phantomgold3255
      @phantomgold3255 4 года назад

      @Remus im not american you stupid idiot 😂😂

  • @HP3Lover
    @HP3Lover 6 лет назад +94

    Also in Australia “football” is a completely different sport from soccer and gridiron

  • @kjenk19
    @kjenk19 6 лет назад +105

    Australia commonly calls the sport soccer because we already have 3 other sports called football. Aussie rules, rugby league and rugby union are all referred to as football.

    • @SteveHuggsYT
      @SteveHuggsYT 6 лет назад

      Kobi Jenkins how is Aussie rules played differently?

    • @TehStormOG
      @TehStormOG 6 лет назад +4

      Scariest Rogue it's a totally separate sport that one guy just invented. It's very different from other forms of football

    • @benwhite6261
      @benwhite6261 6 лет назад +12

      Scariest Rogue firstly it’s played on a much larger oval, of which the dimensions change but around 170m by 130m. In Australian Football, you can use your hands, and the main object is too kick the ball through the large sticks at each end, scoring a goal. To move the ball you can kick (most common) or punch the ball. The sport has no offside, so players line up all across the ground. This makes the game fairly free flowing. The sport is full contact, so tackling and bumping is allowed.

    • @zulphur
      @zulphur 6 лет назад +1

      Footie

    • @JustinThomas7
      @JustinThomas7 6 лет назад +12

      Also our team are the Socceroos. Footballeroos doesn't really have the same ring to it.

  • @kenmograd2009
    @kenmograd2009 6 лет назад +30

    Historically, the name “gridiron” is used interchangeably for the game of North American Football. This stems back when you had three downs to move the ball five yards. The field was patterned in a grid-like pattern with lines at every five yards along the width and the length of the field. This pattern remained until the early 1920s, well after the introduction of the forward pass changed the amount of yards to gain to ten (and in the USA, the addition of a fourth down).

    • @Ranakade
      @Ranakade Год назад +2

      Gridiron sounds more epic than American football imo 🤣

    • @enriquegonzales8186
      @enriquegonzales8186 4 месяца назад

      @@Ranakade I prefer gridiron too and hope it changes to it with time.

  • @Fassislau
    @Fassislau 6 лет назад +193

    I cannot believe you didn't mention the italian name "Calccio" and its origins!! I think it's one of the few countries with a different name for football!

    • @MsMinoula
      @MsMinoula 6 лет назад +32

      It's not like he reviewed all languages with a different word for football, he concentrated on the English speaking countries and he just highlighted it is mostly football around the world.

    • @quakquak6141
      @quakquak6141 6 лет назад +9

      as an italian I always found it weird that other non english speaking countries usually don't have a unique name for football but just a variation of the english term (btw it's spelled calcio, the "i" is muted, is there to signify that the previous "c" must be pronounced like in chair and not like in cat)

    • @neventomicic330
      @neventomicic330 6 лет назад +8

      Nogomet in Slavic countries. Noga= foot, met= play with a ball (like Ruko-met= handball).

    • @hatzisn
      @hatzisn 6 лет назад +12

      Why is it called calcio in Italian? What is the origin of this word? In greece we call it ποδόσφαιρο (podòsfero) which is exactly the same term as in english as πόδι/pòdi=foot and σφαίρα/sfèra is tranlated as sphere and in this case it is used with the meaning ball.

    • @hatzisn
      @hatzisn 6 лет назад +6

      Got that... It comes from the verb calciare which means to kick and calcio is the noun. Vero?

  • @balaam_7087
    @balaam_7087 6 лет назад +318

    I’m not a sports guy at all, but I found this vid fascinating and hilarious to boot. “Hand-egg” LOL

    • @bobbyhill3447
      @bobbyhill3447 6 лет назад +5

      Balaam _ soccer= povertyball

    • @AF911vids
      @AF911vids 6 лет назад +9

      Bobby Hill handegg is better

    • @bobbyhill3447
      @bobbyhill3447 6 лет назад +4

      Afham mk poverty ball is better. Poor peoples game

    • @metpach
      @metpach 6 лет назад +1

      Bobby Hill it really is, the only reason soccer or football or futbul or whatever is as popular as it is, is cause it a sport that the poorest of the poor can play. They will literally kick rags and rocks round barefoot.

    • @AF911vids
      @AF911vids 6 лет назад +1

      EpicJoe P so your point is..

  • @Donal01
    @Donal01 6 лет назад +55

    Lots of people in Ireland also call it soccer because we have our own sport called football too

    • @3dsaulgoodman43
      @3dsaulgoodman43 4 года назад +3

      @@akulakaboom It's more known as Gaelic football, but maybe Irish football is acceptable.

    • @levi2732
      @levi2732 4 года назад +4

      i love ireland just for the gingers girls

    • @K_ingh16
      @K_ingh16 3 года назад +3

      @@levi2732 and little green elfs

  • @jecos1966
    @jecos1966 6 лет назад +82

    In Australia we call American football Gridion

    • @matnat21
      @matnat21 5 лет назад +7

      jecos jecos that name is 1000x better tbh

    • @workspaceofduc
      @workspaceofduc 5 лет назад +18

      In most of the world, we call American football Handegg

    • @spudson60fps35
      @spudson60fps35 5 лет назад

      @@workspaceofduc How About HandEballed

    • @deaundrebondscheeks2
      @deaundrebondscheeks2 4 года назад +13

      @@workspaceofduc Dumb name

    • @workspaceofduc
      @workspaceofduc 4 года назад

      @@deaundrebondscheeks2 That's my name in CSGO account, any problem?

  • @john11719
    @john11719 6 лет назад +41

    Yet other non English speaking places call it closer to soccer, like Japan, Sakkā which is why I am rooting for them

    • @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
      @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions 6 лет назад +7

      john11719
      Someone should make a list of how every language on Earth calls this sport.

    • @john11719
      @john11719 6 лет назад +8

      You mean this? i.imgur.com/2GHdRDg.jpg

    • @garrusn7702
      @garrusn7702 6 лет назад +1

      Read This They still call it soccer.

    • @elenabeatricemartinelli8426
      @elenabeatricemartinelli8426 6 лет назад +6

      we call it "calcio" in Italian (cul-cho, sorry but I don't know the official phonetic symbols). and calcio means kick. so it translates to kickball.

    • @tanyathon7616
      @tanyathon7616 6 лет назад

      because they where isolated except for dutch a few hundred years back and then the americans came before engeland

  • @js_4366
    @js_4366 6 лет назад +314

    It’s football lads

  • @shoutinghorse
    @shoutinghorse 5 лет назад +23

    The game has historically always been called soccer in Ireland too, only recently is football being used more which probably comes from the TV influence of the English Premier League. Interestingly the New Zealand national team have officially changed from soccer to football and are now called 'New Zealand Football' (NZF)
    The 'er' prefix comes from Oxford university and is known as an 'Oxforderism' and most probably has its roots from slang of the public school system in England (private fee paying schools) The term Rugger was often used for Rugby although that seems to have gone out of fashion nowadays.
    There is some thought that 'erisms' originated at Rugby school which would actually mean that Soccer was invented by Rugby.

    • @Jiar14
      @Jiar14 Год назад

      Bud it's called football ⚽️ not soccer

    • @Keli_mafuyu
      @Keli_mafuyu Год назад +2

      ​@@Jiar14it's just cultural difference, both football and soccer are officially accepted in different countries

    • @Jiar14
      @Jiar14 Год назад

      @aratakiitto2387 no it ain't bro you only pick one side and that's it

  • @MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot
    @MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot 6 лет назад +54

    Then in Canada, we took a game Americans usually call kickball, but because it's basically baseball and you kick said ball _like in a game we called soccer_ , everywhere I ever saw it played we called it *soccer baseball!*
    Because that's not confusing.

    • @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
      @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions 6 лет назад

      +Artpholomule Nutt
      Really? Never heard of the term until today, but then again I've only ever visited Ontario.

    • @MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot
      @MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot 6 лет назад +3

      Opiniones de JACC's Opinions I live in Ontario. Ottawa to be exact. Every school I went to growing up (in the public elementary schools) called it that. Wasn't until I saw American tv I found out people called it something else.

    • @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
      @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions 6 лет назад +1

      +Artpholomule Nutt
      When were you born? In the 80's or 90's? I mean even in the 1990's the world was pretty connected and the U.S. dominates the media.

    • @charlesgriffin7708
      @charlesgriffin7708 6 лет назад +6

      I live in Toronto, and I called it that when I was in elementary school around 2006-2010, still would call it that today, and my younger brother who's in elementary school right now calls it soccer baseball.

    • @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
      @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions 6 лет назад

      +Charles Griffin
      That's very interesting that such isolation can still be encountered, I mean the fact that is still exist even to this day is very intriguing to me. Which means even with such a strong cultural hegemony the States have, native Canadian terminology can still exist for things in the same language.

  • @kaits9026
    @kaits9026 6 лет назад +5

    I wrote a paper in college about the history of Soccer/Football and it covered everything that was in this video. I'm happy I'm not the only nerd interested in this topic. You summed this topic quite nicely in under 5 mins. Well done.

    • @nico0826
      @nico0826 2 года назад

      Damn could you send me your paper, i would love to read it ? (I know I’m 4 years late, still hope you see my comment)

    • @Rob-ww6nc
      @Rob-ww6nc 10 месяцев назад

      What about Australia? What do you know?

  • @casper6405
    @casper6405 4 года назад +6

    Everyone in the world: Its Football
    Its Celsius
    Its school
    US: its soccer
    Its fahrenheit
    Its shooting range

  • @ThisOldHat
    @ThisOldHat 6 лет назад +206

    FALSE: The name "football" comes from the fact that the game is played on foot, as opposed to horseback. It was commonly used to refer to a variety of games played by the peasant classes in europe, since the aristocracy tended to prefer games played on horseback.

    • @SquirrelArmyStudios2015
      @SquirrelArmyStudios2015 6 лет назад +27

      So why isn't Polo called Horseball?

    • @LARAUJO_0
      @LARAUJO_0 6 лет назад +12

      That still means the name comes from using your foot

    • @TehStormOG
      @TehStormOG 6 лет назад +3

      Nope your wrong.

    • @artv.9989
      @artv.9989 6 лет назад +11

      Yeah Ive noticed this guy doesnt go into too much detailed research on the topics hes talking about, probably just reads about it on wikipedia for 10 minutes, also LARAUJO, not really, if thats so then why was rugby also called football?

    • @Rogerioapsandrade
      @Rogerioapsandrade 6 лет назад +6

      Art V. I wonder also. He never said the term gridion football, which was the real term for any kind of football that derivates from rugby, like American, Gaelic, Canadian, Australian football

  • @jyrki21
    @jyrki21 6 лет назад +6

    Relatedly: American football in its origins resembled what is now called Canadian football much more closely (field size, number of downs, etc.). The rules were set by teams from McGill University (in Montreal) and Harvard (in Massachusetts) and only later diverged from this in the U.S., in part to account for the smaller field that happened to be available.

  • @shaungordon9737
    @shaungordon9737 6 лет назад +44

    I believe Ireland also calls it soccer. The UK is probably the only English-speaking country that calls it Football
    The only people in Australia who call it 'Football' are those who play it, but most of the public still calls it soccer

    • @LarkinsDeLaMare
      @LarkinsDeLaMare 3 года назад +5

      It's funny how Australia's national teams nickname is the Socceroos

    • @isaacthegoat1432
      @isaacthegoat1432 3 года назад +1

      What a load of bs.

    • @GgTTV828
      @GgTTV828 2 года назад +2

      @@isaacthegoat1432 yes, keep crying.

  • @dimesonhiseyes9134
    @dimesonhiseyes9134 6 лет назад +38

    It seems to me colonialist britts are really the only ones that are concerned that some countries use the word soccer. It just baffles them that not everyone talks exactly the same way they do.

    • @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
      @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions 6 лет назад

      +Dimes On His Eyes
      "Colonialist Britts"?

    • @a2falcone
      @a2falcone 6 лет назад +10

      Almost the whole world uses the term football, or terms with similar sound or meaning. And in all those countries people find it funny when it's called soccer and other sports that use mostly the hands are called football.

    • @galanie
      @galanie 6 лет назад +14

      Yeah Americans quit listening to what England wanted us to do in the 1770s and they expect us to change our world to suit them NOW?

    • @isaacthegoat1432
      @isaacthegoat1432 3 года назад

      @@galanie No one said that.

    • @isaacthegoat1432
      @isaacthegoat1432 3 года назад

      It was disowned in England and what they call football isn't really football.

  • @pualamnusantara7903
    @pualamnusantara7903 6 лет назад +312

    Let's call it "Kickball".

    • @shorpy3407
      @shorpy3407 6 лет назад +62

      Already taken

    • @jonadabtheunsightly
      @jonadabtheunsightly 6 лет назад +28

      Kickball is another sport, which until recently (circa 1990) was much more widely known and played in America than soccer. Anyway, the name "soccer" originates in England, so it's rather hypocritical of Brits to complain about it being called that.
      Also, the "foot" in football is a third of a yard, so it only makes sense for sports where that's actually a significant aspect of the game. HTH.HAND.

    • @hoangkimviet8545
      @hoangkimviet8545 6 лет назад +1

      I agree :-0

    • @jizzuschrist6252
      @jizzuschrist6252 6 лет назад +5

      since we living in the future lets call it "GOAL 2000" all in caps

    • @sinoroman
      @sinoroman 6 лет назад +5

      GOOOOAAAAALLLLball

  • @monnetheepicgamer
    @monnetheepicgamer 5 месяцев назад +2

    As an American who calls it “Soccer” I still find “Football” better. (IM TALKING ABOUT THE ONE WHERE YOU ACTUALLY USE YOUR FOOT) The Football in my country should be called “Archball” because your throwing in into an arch.

  • @ashknoecklein
    @ashknoecklein 6 лет назад +213

    I'm from New England, where people have been into soccer for quite a while. Whenever a British person makes fun of me for calling it soccer, I'm like "but it's YOUR word!" lol

    • @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
      @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions 6 лет назад +9

      Yeah!🤣

    • @Lorem_64
      @Lorem_64 6 лет назад +38

      Yeah but they gave up that word decades ago.

    • @dmadalengoitia
      @dmadalengoitia 6 лет назад +13

      weehawk you mean football?

    • @RyanControl
      @RyanControl 6 лет назад +27

      So everyone needs to be just like the Brits? This is the 21st century. Haven't we realized by now that cultural and linguistic diversity are a good thing?

    • @NikhileshSurve
      @NikhileshSurve 6 лет назад +7

      weehawk Yes but a word by elites not the common people lol.

  • @catief1031
    @catief1031 6 лет назад +3

    That's for the video! I had heard a brief explanation of the name "soccer" back when I was a child (an adult was explaining it to someone else and I overheard), but I could never quite remember all the detail.

  • @franzfanz
    @franzfanz 6 лет назад +10

    In New Zealand soccer is starting a slow decline in usage and football is becoming much more common. A lot of this had to do with our team's incredible run in the 2010 FIFA World Cup where we remained the only country to be undefeated. Yes, even the eventual winners of the tournament, Spain, couldn't match this amazing feat. Also there's been a recent influx of English immigration which might also be a contributing factor.

    • @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
      @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions 6 лет назад

      But, do Kiwis call another sport football? I mean I know you guys mainly as a Rugby nation, but Australia has several "forms" of football and Gridiron Football the other common name of that sport played in North America, so do you guys like to call Rugby "Football"? Because, otherwise why was Soccer more common?

    • @franzfanz
      @franzfanz 6 лет назад

      We tend to call rugby union just rugby and rugby league is rugby. The governing body used to called the New Zealand Rugby Football Union so I assume in the past calling it football was more common than today. This could also explain why we're calling it something different now.

    • @Rob-ww6nc
      @Rob-ww6nc 10 месяцев назад

      That is because New Zealand play's the other English second choice game of Rugby union! Soccer Australia is trying to call itself football but Australia has Australian football which is very different to all the other football codes in the world. Except Irish football Gaelic football. Australian football has the biggest crowds Per population. AFL.

    • @Rob-ww6nc
      @Rob-ww6nc 10 месяцев назад

      ​​@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinionsagain as an Australian the answer is easy! New Zealand don't have thier own football code. They play Rugby union an English game.
      Australia has a huge football code invented in Australia with huge crowd!
      Next popular game is Englands third choice Rugby league. But Australian football is in every state of S. Australia.. even the two states where league is the most popular! As an example of why it is so popular. On a bitterly cold raining day. Two teams that go back to the 1800s had a crowd of 100.000 people for a normal season match no international no final.. but the football code that draws the biggest crowds for just club football! Melbourne Demon's v Collingwood Magpies 1958. A couple of people short of 100.000!

  • @Belboz99
    @Belboz99 6 лет назад +13

    The "er" suffix is common among Germanic languages, as "er" means "he". So, "Baker" is "he who bakes". Other old-fashioned names like Steiner would be "he who works with stone". And of course, "hamburger" refers to "he who is from Hamburg", and that's why we called them Hamburgers, because some guys from Hamburg created them.
    I almost wonder if the usage by the elites was used to denote someone as being particularly unique in some way. For example, in modern English we say "The Oprah", as a way to signify how she is singularly unique. And now people say "The Donald".

    • @mojojim6458
      @mojojim6458 6 лет назад +1

      Dan O'Connell Ivana, his first, Czech wife, started calling him The Donald decades ago. So, I don't think it's just a Germanic language thing.

    • @maxropercalvo6132
      @maxropercalvo6132 Год назад

      FOOTBALL has been called FOOTBALL since it was created in ENGLAND until today 2023. It NEVER changed its name or had another name and it was NEVER EVER called "soccer"
      The terms "soccer" and "rugger" were just NICKNAMES used by a few Englishmen a long time ago to call FOOTBALL and RUGBY and their use was not even popular even as NICKNAMES, these terms were only used as NICKNAMES by a few Englishmen later never again these terms were not even used as NICKNAMES and the few English people who used these terms as NICKNAMES stopped using them
      "soccer" isn't even a word, it's the abbreviation of the word ASSOCIATION, that's why the USA got ridiculed to change the name of its real FOOTBALL association only in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call it like this to the true original and real FOOTBALL the biggest popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD and so they live in their unreal falsified and fantasy world poor stupid people
      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.

  • @loranddeka
    @loranddeka 6 лет назад +3

    This question has been banging around in my head since my high school Spanish class, thanks for giving me the answer.

  • @kieranfitz
    @kieranfitz 6 лет назад +87

    You left Ireland off the list of English speaking countries that call it soccer.

    • @RuiOliveiraTV
      @RuiOliveiraTV 6 лет назад +11

      Dear god Ireland too? i.i

    • @TomskyB
      @TomskyB 6 лет назад +14

      Please don't say even the Irish call it Soccer.

    • @seanmcmanus4701
      @seanmcmanus4701 6 лет назад +14

      Rui Oliveira We have a different sport we use the name football for GAA

    • @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
      @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions 6 лет назад

      +Kieran Fitzgerald
      Isn't Patrick from Northern Ireland?

    • @turtlevader
      @turtlevader 6 лет назад +2

      What would Northern Ireland even count as? It’s in the UK but it’s also in Ireland! Sockfoot?

  • @KuyaBJLaurente
    @KuyaBJLaurente 3 года назад +4

    In the Philippines, we are adopting the term "football" in colloquial context. Thanks to some Filipino-European footballers that re-popularized the sport in our country + our Southeast Asian neighbors (like Malaysia and Indonesia) call them football in English anyway.

  • @habilsubarqah
    @habilsubarqah 6 лет назад +6

    Actually, American Football is not Rugby Football but Gridiron Football. They have different rules, size of pitch, shape of ball, shape of goals, and of course costumes.

  • @hyosungg_
    @hyosungg_ 4 года назад +47

    UK: ⚽ it's a football
    US: NOO IT'S A SOCCER THIS IS FOOTBALL 🏈
    UK: ⚽ it's a football
    The world: yeah, we know

    • @useruseruser674
      @useruseruser674 4 года назад +2

      Umm well most of the developped European countries use football to call the sport called football and use a form of association football for the barely sport called soccer

    • @Seba-le7mb
      @Seba-le7mb 4 года назад +4

      @@useruseruser674 i'm having a stroke

    • @bowskee
      @bowskee 4 года назад

      @@useruseruser674 u gave me a headache

    • @useruseruser674
      @useruseruser674 4 года назад

      @@bowskee y'know outside of UK being a soccer player is just as valid of a job like instagram comedian, since soccer players have no real athletic capability and outside to the coaching staff and the gm are usually all dumb

    • @bowskee
      @bowskee 4 года назад +1

      @@useruseruser674 what u said was completely wrong. Soccer players have insane athleticism (cristiano, adama, mbappe, ibra), some others have amazing skill and talent (messi, neymar, ronaldinho). "Football" requires as much work as any other sport.

  • @ravenlord4
    @ravenlord4 6 лет назад +15

    Japan also calls it soccer (サッカー )
    ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/サッカー日本代表

    • @thatbg3357
      @thatbg3357 5 лет назад

      @raven lord no because japanese is a completely different language

    • @workspaceofduc
      @workspaceofduc 5 лет назад +1

      Dude. There are lots of Japanese people call it futtoboru which means football

    • @deaundrebondscheeks2
      @deaundrebondscheeks2 4 года назад +1

      @@thatbg3357 Dude, I saw you on another video shit-talking Americans because we have a different word when referring to your 'Sport' aka Soccer. Lmao. Now you're making excuses for why Japan isn't at fault for calling it 'Soccer' as well. Seems like You just don't like powerful nations and also the fact that not a lot of Americans like your sport. Well, bitch at China because they don't fucking like Soccer as well.

  • @ryanmccartney244
    @ryanmccartney244 6 лет назад +15

    Handegg! Oh my God, how funny! You really got me! Now that I have seen the light, I have gone ahead and thrown my coffee maker away and bought a tea pot. Now I can say "football" just like a British person. It's always been my dream to speak just like a British person but I didn't know how. Thank you, my British friends.

    • @Viking_Creation
      @Viking_Creation 3 года назад +1

      What???

    • @nazeemtrump2820
      @nazeemtrump2820 3 года назад +4

      Now you need to lose weight to become British.

    • @dinnerboons1504
      @dinnerboons1504 2 года назад +4

      @@nazeemtrump2820 The UK isn’t much better off in weight than America.

    • @plfaproductions
      @plfaproductions 4 месяца назад

      I actually think is people assuming those complaining about it are British, I'm Brazilian and get annoyed when freedomland people try to impose their inferior sport that they are the only ones who care about as football, it came after real football and doesn't even use feet why the hell would it be the true football, call it anything else but that ain't football and calling it football is objectively wrong

    • @plfaproductions
      @plfaproductions 4 месяца назад

      ​@@dinnerboons1504it is, Britain isn't good in weight terms but usa is absurd

  • @ashleydah27
    @ashleydah27 6 лет назад

    So cool! Great video and timing ❤

  • @alvitorifqirajendra
    @alvitorifqirajendra 4 года назад +17

    British : Football
    Spanish : Futbol
    German : Fußball
    Indonesia = Sepakbola (ikr it sounds weird. It means : Sepak= Kick, Bola = Ball. So, it could be translated as Kick ball / Football)

    • @Farhan-mn1fr
      @Farhan-mn1fr 4 года назад +2

      Malaysia: Bola Sepak

    • @Hm_649
      @Hm_649 4 года назад

      All country different ok?

    • @Hm_649
      @Hm_649 4 года назад

      Lingardinho are you dumb clearly saying you two

    • @icarom2512
      @icarom2512 4 года назад

      Portuguese: Futebol

    • @phantomgold3255
      @phantomgold3255 4 года назад

      Shut up

  • @forkyicicle8904
    @forkyicicle8904 6 лет назад +4

    Alright, here's my suggestion. There are tonnes of different codes of football and to insist that only one code can call itself football is absurd. So call every type of football "football" whenever there is no ambiguity. Say for instance an American football player asking his fellow teammate when the next training session is would use "football". When there is ambiguity, such as asking "Which do you prefer, Association football or Gaelic football?" then these shortened names could be used:
    Association football - soccer
    American football - Yankee rules
    Australian football - Aussie rules
    Rugby football - Rugby
    Gaelic football - same
    Canadian football - same
    Winchester football - Winchester
    Harrow football - Harrow
    Eton field football - Eton field
    Eton wall football - Eton wall

    • @frasstvhs6141
      @frasstvhs6141 6 лет назад +3

      Official name football
      world Cup
      Olympiad

    • @forkyicicle8904
      @forkyicicle8904 6 лет назад

      Frass Tvhs Wait sorry could you please elaborate? I don't get what you mean.

  • @blueangelsfan4072
    @blueangelsfan4072 2 года назад

    Thank you for this.

  • @ca_marchant86
    @ca_marchant86 6 лет назад +5

    In Mexico they call it futbol, in the rest of Spanish speaking countries they call it fútbol (there’s a difference in pronunciation).

  • @Gallalad1
    @Gallalad1 6 лет назад +5

    The soccer rule also applies to Ireland

    • @maxropercalvo6132
      @maxropercalvo6132 Год назад +1

      FOOTBALL has been called FOOTBALL since it was created in ENGLAND until today 2023. It NEVER changed its name or had another name and it was NEVER EVER called "soccer"
      The terms "soccer" and "rugger" were just NICKNAMES used by a few Englishmen a long time ago to call FOOTBALL and RUGBY and their use was not even popular even as NICKNAMES, these terms were only used as NICKNAMES by a few Englishmen later never again these terms were not even used as NICKNAMES and the few English people who used these terms as NICKNAMES stopped using them
      "soccer" isn't even a word, it's the abbreviation of the word ASSOCIATION, that's why the USA got ridiculed to change the name of its real FOOTBALL association only in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call it like this to the true original and real FOOTBALL the biggest popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD and so they live in their unreal falsified and fantasy world poor stupid people
      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.

  • @kgm4556
    @kgm4556 5 месяцев назад

    That’s funny the “ER” thing in Upoer Class England.
    In Canada, that is extremely common to give nicknames like that.

  • @Goonwithatireiron823
    @Goonwithatireiron823 6 лет назад +3

    The game of football does not use feet to kick the ball, however you are constantly carrying the ball across the field on foot, which originally is how football was played in the US, with no passing, eventually the added passes in the game bc it spread players out more and reduced the risk of injury. But none the less, it is a game where the ball is carried on foot, the name football works. However there are better names that could have worked better maybe.

    • @ОлексійКупранець
      @ОлексійКупранець 4 года назад +1

      Well, the actual football sport is much better for the name football. Because 1: the ball is an actual BALL. 2: you use your feet almost exclusively

  • @rasapplepipe
    @rasapplepipe 6 лет назад +7

    No mention of Canadian or Australian Football.

    • @benseac
      @benseac 6 лет назад +3

      Canadian Handegg

    • @deaundrebondscheeks2
      @deaundrebondscheeks2 4 года назад +2

      @@benseac There goes a moronic response.

    • @benseac
      @benseac 4 года назад +1

      @@deaundrebondscheeks2 Yep. I hope you enjoyed it.

    • @deaundrebondscheeks2
      @deaundrebondscheeks2 4 года назад +1

      @@benseac Nope, I clearly didn't and now you're fucking blocked by me lol now fuck off.

  • @hdrevolution123
    @hdrevolution123 6 лет назад

    Amazing video, nice one!!

  • @user-gk3bb4sl4v
    @user-gk3bb4sl4v 4 года назад +3

    American Football should just be called Armoured Rugby

  • @blogsanjay1031
    @blogsanjay1031 6 лет назад +6

    "...where the leader of the losing team would be sacrificed" lol and people think we're living in the last days

  • @kyrgyzjeff4550
    @kyrgyzjeff4550 6 лет назад

    Awesome vid man! May you never run out of “names” to cover!

  • @CamHarrisVlogs
    @CamHarrisVlogs 4 года назад +3

    4:18 did anyone else see Hugh Jass

  • @JasonPloeger
    @JasonPloeger 6 лет назад +6

    You just said that the first version of football (mob) used hands... you call it football because it is a game played on foot (as opposed to on horse). Just as American, Australian, Canadian, Gaelic, and Rugby football are played on foot. See "The Ball is Round" for a good history of the codes of football.

    • @tanyathon7616
      @tanyathon7616 6 лет назад

      the first version used both hands and foot

    • @wazmarwa164
      @wazmarwa164 5 лет назад

      @@tanyathon7616 he def does not know what he had in hus mind

    • @maxropercalvo6132
      @maxropercalvo6132 Год назад +1

      FOOTBALL has been called FOOTBALL since it was created in ENGLAND until today 2023. It NEVER changed its name or had another name and it was NEVER EVER called "soccer"
      The terms "soccer" and "rugger" were just NICKNAMES used by a few Englishmen a long time ago to call FOOTBALL and RUGBY and their use was not even popular even as NICKNAMES, these terms were only used as NICKNAMES by a few Englishmen later never again these terms were not even used as NICKNAMES and the few English people who used these terms as NICKNAMES stopped using them
      "soccer" isn't even a word, it's the abbreviation of the word ASSOCIATION, that's why the USA got ridiculed to change the name of its real FOOTBALL association only in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call it like this to the true original and real FOOTBALL the biggest popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD and so they live in their unreal falsified and fantasy world poor stupid people
      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.

  • @607
    @607 6 лет назад

    Thanks!

  • @mexicancactus624
    @mexicancactus624 4 года назад +4

    Even in Greek the sport is called is ποδό-(σφαιρο) pronunciation=podósfairo
    ποδό=(foot) σφαιρο=(ball)

  • @DailyQuranRecitation1234
    @DailyQuranRecitation1234 3 года назад +14

    🇬🇧: Football
    🌍: Football
    🇺🇸: Soccer
    🇦🇺: Soccer
    🇨🇦: Soccer

    • @jorgelopez8486
      @jorgelopez8486 3 года назад +2

      🇮🇹 Calcio

    • @joaquingonzalez834
      @joaquingonzalez834 3 года назад +3

      ireland calls it soccer too, even if its not used that much nowadays from what i gathered

    • @oisinmccarthy8717
      @oisinmccarthy8717 3 года назад +3

      @@joaquingonzalez834 no most irish people still say soccer. Only in Dublin many people say football

    • @proudamerican183
      @proudamerican183 3 года назад

      @@jorgelopez8486 Interesting history.

    • @Kieran66
      @Kieran66 3 года назад

      @@oisinmccarthy8717 more like all of leinster say football, and most of ulster too, which are the two provinces with the highest population.

  • @majan6267
    @majan6267 6 лет назад

    nice, after the last really bad video this one is a breath of fresh air, good work

  • @officerishi6789
    @officerishi6789 6 лет назад +12

    3:13 "a sucker"

  • @abrokatec
    @abrokatec 6 лет назад +9

    Mexico’s pronunciation sounds the same it’s just spelled different!

    • @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
      @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions 6 лет назад +1

      +Andrea Brokate
      We transliterated it. The same was done with _béisbol._ Also is the same in all Spanish-speaking countries which I'm not sure why he didn't say that.😑

    • @fordtransit7948
      @fordtransit7948 4 года назад

      En México 🇲🇽 lo pronunciamos sin el acento en la u porque se escucha sudamericano.

  • @FantasticMrE
    @FantasticMrE 4 года назад

    Fun fact for anyone that isn’t into American Football (or American Hand Egg) and/or doesn’t know much about it. The kicking parts of an American Football game are actually statistically the largest teller of who will most likely win the game as kicking the ball during special teams plays (with your foot) largely determines the position and distance in which the opposing team must advance the ball. Also, field goals (which are also kicked with the foot) will frequently determine the outcome of an American Football game due to the fact that they can be used for easy points at long distances and they also give an opportunity to kick the ball to the other team (which is once again, using the foot) to determine the opposing team’s field position. Field goals and kickoffs are both the statistically most important factors for winning an American Football game, both using the foot!

  • @TheCsel
    @TheCsel 6 лет назад +3

    Well football is also played ‘on foot’ as opposed to horseback sports like polo

  • @fortunecookie5459
    @fortunecookie5459 4 года назад +9

    2:02 Americans still don't get that xD

  • @markaddison9430
    @markaddison9430 6 лет назад

    The split between The Football Association and The Rugby Football Union didn’t occur until 1871. Between 1863 and 1871 the only other popular ‘football’ game was Sheffield Football (SFA) which was arguably for a time as popular as Association Football-the clubs of the SFA even took part I The FA Cup, until The FA and Sheffield merged their rules in 1877. The FA adopted many Sheffield rules: not least of being the addition of the 8 foot high tape which the ball had to pass under for a goal to count; and the removal of the punching or catching of the ball by anyone other than the goal keeper-

  • @jayg1438
    @jayg1438 2 года назад +4

    Some fun theories I have heard and that have been presented by numerous game historians.
    Football in all of it's forms was not named as such because it was a game where the ball was kicked with the feet. It belied class distinctions going back to feudalism. European armies were divided by soldiers fighting on Horse or those fighting on Foot. Horse being comprised of the nobility and elite, foot being comprised of the peasants and conscripts. Football was a catch all for the games the lower classes played with a ball by players on foot. Horse sports like Polo and Steeple were played by the elites.
    If the name of the game came from kicking the ball with the foot, why not just call it kickball? Forms of 'football' where the ball was advanced with the hands and or feet were popular by the 19th century in colleges like Rugby.
    By the 1800s football was most often played by colleges in the UK. Games would be played by the rules preferred by the host college. Colleges like Eton preferred advancing the ball by kicking it. Rugby preferred rules where the ball is advanced using the hands. Eton rules football would become known as Association Football and Rugby style rules as Rugby Football.
    This is where I have heard derivations on the birth of 'Soccer' as a name. Scores were posted in newspapers where the amount of print cost money, so abbreviations were used. Rubgy Football was shortened to Rugby or RUG. This left a conundrum for Association Football. No self respecting Victorian would use the word ASS in a newspaper, or discuss ASS scores! My word! So the name was shortened to SOC. Then as is common the ER was added and it became known as Soccer.

    • @johnbauer7234
      @johnbauer7234 2 года назад +2

      soccer sounds ugly, only the yankees call it that, in the rest of the world it is football

    • @thevannmann
      @thevannmann Год назад

      @@johnbauer7234 Did you not watch the video, idiot?

    • @AsiaMinor12
      @AsiaMinor12 Год назад

      ​@@johnbauer7234 if you ignore the 200 million other people on the planet that call it soccer lol.

    • @johnbauer7234
      @johnbauer7234 Год назад

      @@AsiaMinor12 Yes, and you are forgetting about South America, Central America, Mexico, Europe, Africa, Oceania and Asia, China, Korea. all over the world, removing the USA, they call Football the king of sports.

    • @johnbauer7234
      @johnbauer7234 Год назад

      @@AsiaMinor12 those 200 million that you say against the rest of the world are nothing, wee lad🇬🇧

  • @boutdacheck6601
    @boutdacheck6601 4 года назад +5

    Americans call it fooball but they play it with their hands

    • @fxrnweh-hd5dq
      @fxrnweh-hd5dq 4 года назад +1

      Yeah
      It makes no sense lol

    • @S-1_24-25
      @S-1_24-25 3 года назад

      @@fxrnweh-hd5dq handegg is suitable.

    • @S-1_24-25
      @S-1_24-25 3 года назад

      They should just call it *handegg*

  • @najrenchelf2751
    @najrenchelf2751 6 лет назад

    THANK YOU! So glad someone finally got to the bottom of this! :-)

  • @1notredamefightingirishfan12
    @1notredamefightingirishfan12 2 года назад +3

    It's funny how Europeans get so triggered when people call it soccer when the British invented it

    • @bakedbeans5494
      @bakedbeans5494 2 года назад +1

      The British gained logic, America didn't.

    • @1notredamefightingirishfan12
      @1notredamefightingirishfan12 2 года назад +3

      @@bakedbeans5494 America gets an unpredictable, constant thrilling moments sport, British doesn't

    • @thomsboys77
      @thomsboys77 Год назад +1

      @@1notredamefightingirishfan12No one cares about American sport apart from the Yanks

    • @1notredamefightingirishfan12
      @1notredamefightingirishfan12 Год назад +1

      @@thomsboys77 no one here cares about soccer

    • @plfaproductions
      @plfaproductions 4 месяца назад

      I actually think is people assuming those complaining about it are British, I'm Brazilian and get annoyed when freedomland people try to impose their inferior sport that they are the only ones who care about as football, it came after real football and doesn't even use feet why the hell would it be the true football, call it anything else but that ain't football and calling it football is objectively wrong

  • @anthonylong9067
    @anthonylong9067 6 лет назад +23

    The awkward moment when someone from the UK confirms the word soccer was invented in the UK and also confirms that other countries call it soccer besides the US.
    Some people just dont understand that

    • @userlol3644
      @userlol3644 4 года назад +5

      Yet 10 teams in the MLS have ‘fc’ in their club names

    • @neereh7800
      @neereh7800 4 года назад +1

      User Lol my middle school training shirt had “football club” on it too

    • @userlol3644
      @userlol3644 4 года назад

      Nee Reh aha

    • @chidumebiarukwe6436
      @chidumebiarukwe6436 4 года назад +1

      Yes and the word has been dropped by everyone else and you continue to use it

    • @anthonylong9067
      @anthonylong9067 4 года назад +1

      Chidumebi Arukwe not really.

  • @lestorhaslam
    @lestorhaslam 6 лет назад

    The school that was on the board of the F.A. is Forest School in Snaresbrook, on the London/Essex border and is the only school in the 1870’s to play in the F.A. Cup.

  • @Nick-kz6dg
    @Nick-kz6dg 6 лет назад +52

    The funny thing in Australia, we call it "soccer" and our national team is called the "Socceroos" but the governing body is called "Football Federation Australia".
    Also, unlike America, at least in Aussie rules football you actually kick the ball...

    • @mikespearwood3914
      @mikespearwood3914 6 лет назад

      The name change to "Football Federation Australia" (from "Soccer Australia") was part of an aggressive strategy to lift the standings of the sport in Australia, and try to claim the name "football" in Australian sport. It was also at the time the weak NSL was dismantled to be replaced by the A-League.

    • @AzureKite
      @AzureKite 6 лет назад +59

      In American football you kick the ball too... in fact if your team sucks you kick it a lot.

    • @BrandonjSlippingAway
      @BrandonjSlippingAway 6 лет назад +3

      It's not a 'funny thing', it was a very deliberate move to replace the old Soccer Australia and start a process by the FFA soccer figures to officially remove the word out of the sport in Australia. It's a completely top-down orientated model by the FFA, you won't see or hear the word 'soccer' in any of their official releases, broadcasts or affiliated leagues, despite the word being very much a prominent part of Australian vocab.

    • @mikespearwood3914
      @mikespearwood3914 6 лет назад +1

      Azure Kite I think he means in a general sense as part of the game. The only time they kick in American Football is specifically just to kick for goals or to kick for territory when the tackle count has run out, so essentially the same as Rugby League.

    • @BrandonjSlippingAway
      @BrandonjSlippingAway 6 лет назад +1

      Everyone knows the ball is kicked in American football, the point is that it's kicked far, far less than basically every sport called football.

  • @kazenriq
    @kazenriq 6 лет назад +11

    Thought it had something to do with sorcerers...

  • @Regular_Decorated_Emergency
    @Regular_Decorated_Emergency 2 года назад +2

    Tell that to Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Comoros, India (Telugu and Karnataka), Singapore, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, North Africa, Japan, and Korea.

    • @plfaproductions
      @plfaproductions 4 месяца назад

      Only Canada and Australia of that list use soccer seriously, football is more common in most of those SPECIALLY JAPAN (I know 9 Japanese imigrants and they confirm that they never use soccer) and in Canada and Australia they don't use football to American fake football either because they got their own knock-offs, just accept you guys can't steal the name of the most popular sport in the world and move on

  • @auradone8127
    @auradone8127 4 года назад +4

    Football=Like
    Soccer=Comment

    • @sans.2709
      @sans.2709 4 года назад

      Soccer is Football ya stupid idiot! You can go f*** your Handegg.

  • @hoangkimviet8545
    @hoangkimviet8545 6 лет назад +175

    - American football plays by hands.
    - Others of the world: Football by feet.
    So, the inclusion is America is unique
    :-0

    • @zoofan9280
      @zoofan9280 6 лет назад +44

      Hoàng Kim Việt American football is just cowards rugby

    • @Alluminati666
      @Alluminati666 6 лет назад +27

      Hoàng Kim Việt that means Americans have less IQ

    • @stargasior
      @stargasior 6 лет назад +10

      Canadian Football and there is also Aussie Rules Football. Both have roots from Rugby Football...

    • @mikespearwood3914
      @mikespearwood3914 6 лет назад +4

      stargasior Australian Football is it's own game, most closely resembling Gaelic Football, where a hybrid game has been devised where Australia and Ireland compete on a regular basis. It has no affiliation or origins from rugby.

    • @jizzuschrist6252
      @jizzuschrist6252 6 лет назад +9

      well they also uses pounds, fahrenheit, inches, month/day/year, ounces.. fkn twats

  • @dod297
    @dod297 5 лет назад +1

    It's pretty easy to understand.
    You kick the BALL with your FOOT.
    Pretty simple.

  • @AussieTVMusic
    @AussieTVMusic 6 лет назад +10

    AFL is Football too

    • @zulphur
      @zulphur 6 лет назад

      AussieTV aussie rules 😊

    • @arrgghh1555
      @arrgghh1555 6 лет назад +3

      AFL is not rugby like. Also hands are not used instead of feet, they are uses as well as feet. Kicking is the most used and most effective form of moving the ball and AFL is the only form of football where the primary method of scoring must be kicked.

    • @arrgghh1555
      @arrgghh1555 6 лет назад

      You are correct AFL is a league, but there is no singular sport just named 'football'. AFL is so much easier to say then Australian rules football, and everyone knows what you're talking about. Same reason we say soccer (or football) and not Association football.

    • @stephendraffin5775
      @stephendraffin5775 6 лет назад

      Arrgghh No, it would be like calling the game Premier League or First Division I.e. The name of the competition

    • @anthonyf3680
      @anthonyf3680 6 лет назад

      AussieTV afl is so gayyyyyyy

  • @Rakonax
    @Rakonax 6 лет назад +130

    Handegg!

    • @kosukemiura1226
      @kosukemiura1226 6 лет назад

      XIDNAF

    • @admiralaokiji7889
      @admiralaokiji7889 6 лет назад +5

      Handegg is not as catchy as football.

    • @Rakonax
      @Rakonax 6 лет назад

      but it isn't used for an other sport already

    • @admiralaokiji7889
      @admiralaokiji7889 6 лет назад +1

      Read This a sports name doesnt have to directly describe what they do. If it did cricket would be a really weird sport involving insects.

    • @bobbyhill3447
      @bobbyhill3447 6 лет назад

      Remember Americans call their shitty sport povertyball

  • @AbedWinger
    @AbedWinger Год назад +1

    It's gridiron football. There's no reason we can't bring gridiron back into formal usage.

  • @JoeYabukii
    @JoeYabukii 4 года назад +4

    where the fuck was usa when football created

    • @philmccracken179
      @philmccracken179 3 года назад

      Soccer created 1863. American football created 1869. The USA was a complete country when kickball started

    • @plfaproductions
      @plfaproductions 4 месяца назад

      ​@@philmccracken179actually no, true football ⚽️ was around sinse the middle ages

    • @philmccracken179
      @philmccracken179 4 месяца назад

      @@plfaproductions yes I know, back in Africa they would kick the heads around of fellow Africans they beheaded. Sure if you wanna count that then fine

  • @RockismyAir
    @RockismyAir 6 лет назад +6

    Jalkapallo in Finnish.
    Sidenote: I hate it.

    • @deaundrebondscheeks2
      @deaundrebondscheeks2 4 года назад

      I like it, why not be unique. We call it Soccer, my father calls it Calcio, you call it Jalkapallo.

  • @apophisstr6719
    @apophisstr6719 6 лет назад +2

    Additional info: Football in Chinese is 足球, 足 is foot, and 球 is ball. While strangely, in Japanese, they commonly use the word サッカー (sakka-), which is the katakana version of soccer.

    • @user-yf1uo5qw2v
      @user-yf1uo5qw2v 3 года назад +1

      Soccer/Football in Korean 축구 Chookgu
      That means like Soccer than Football.

  • @bryceciufo9370
    @bryceciufo9370 6 лет назад +3

    It’s called soccer not football

  • @username65585
    @username65585 6 лет назад +5

    Football is called football because it is played *on* foot. That is opposed to horse back sports like polo. Shame there was no mention of Aussie Rules Football, the best football.

  • @parker_aug2
    @parker_aug2 6 лет назад +2

    Really interesting to learn that these three popular sports originated from the same game.

    • @plfaproductions
      @plfaproductions 4 месяца назад

      ⚽️ is the only globaly popular, the other ones aren't that popular by comparison

  • @Frahamen
    @Frahamen 6 лет назад +12

    OK. so let's make it even and call American Football "Muccer" now.

  • @stratospheric37
    @stratospheric37 6 лет назад +33

    futa ball

  • @JustinThomas7
    @JustinThomas7 6 лет назад +1

    In Australia, football could be one of four sports - Association Football, Rugby Union, Rugby League or Australian Rules Football. To avoid ambiguity, these are usually called A League or Soccer, Rugby or Union, League or NRL & Aussie Rules or AFL. If the term is used, you're also more likely to hear Footy rather than Football. A League encourage the use of "Football" to describe the sport, to the point where you usually get corrected if you call it soccer to a fan. It's good to know soccer is the high-brow name for the sport!

  • @theJellyjoker
    @theJellyjoker 6 лет назад +3

    American rules Rugby.

  • @rishibehal5
    @rishibehal5 6 лет назад +7

    Do origin of Hungary

  • @MrKenichi22
    @MrKenichi22 6 лет назад +1

    @3:20 From what I know, American Rules Football used the words interchangeably and it is either because the desire to identify with the rich (only hearing Soccer and preferring that) or because the colleges eventually followed Harvards game which became American Football as Harvard preferred Rugby over Soccer and adapted American Football from Rugby.

  • @blsi4037
    @blsi4037 5 лет назад +5

    The rest of the world: Ha! Americans have no culture!
    America: We have American Football
    The rest of the world: NO NO NO.

    • @deaundrebondscheeks2
      @deaundrebondscheeks2 4 года назад

      Was that supposed to be a joke? Because I don't get what's funny?

    • @user-fz3ip3ke8p
      @user-fz3ip3ke8p 4 года назад +1

      @@deaundrebondscheeks2 because you are american

    • @deaundrebondscheeks2
      @deaundrebondscheeks2 4 года назад

      Nope, Because it wasn't funny.

    • @user-fz3ip3ke8p
      @user-fz3ip3ke8p 4 года назад

      @@deaundrebondscheeks2 and you arent black. You are a watered down wanna be black. Literally all of africa hates your guts

    • @TheRedDeathYT
      @TheRedDeathYT 4 года назад

      Is this another way of saying fuck you?

  • @pestilenceplague4765
    @pestilenceplague4765 6 лет назад +3

    I think that most outsiders don't understand American football, and that seems great to me. It is very American, and we love it no matter what the hell the rest of the world thinks.

  • @CypherSpy
    @CypherSpy 5 лет назад +2

    @1:28 they still do that in a UK town not sure where but i watch a video of them playing

  • @bars3543
    @bars3543 6 лет назад +48

    just call the "american football" rugby

    • @CallanKilderry
      @CallanKilderry 6 лет назад +20

      That's offensive to Rugby

    • @ses694
      @ses694 6 лет назад +7

      no Its too diferent

    • @ses694
      @ses694 6 лет назад +13

      no Should call it "hand egg"

    • @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
      @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions 6 лет назад +2

      The other common name for the sport is gridiron football.

    • @DAK4Blizzard
      @DAK4Blizzard 6 лет назад +5

      I have 4 suggestions that I think sound less silly than hand egg:
      1. Downball -- There are 4 downs and a touchdown
      2. Tackleball -- Tackles play a key role in game play (and 2 offensive positions are named tackle)
      3. Scrimmageball -- Many of the positions are named "back" (quarterback, halfback, fullback, linebacker) due to their respect to the line of scrimmage
      4. Backball -- For the same reason as Scrimmageball
      Touchball technically works (touchdown and touchback), but from that perspective I think Tackleball sounds better. Yes, the ball is shaped like an egg, but it is a ball nonetheless, and eggs aren't an official shape. The official shape is vesica piscis, with the simpler Italian name of mandorla (meaning almond). So actually, it could be called hand almond.

  • @carterreid9869
    @carterreid9869 6 лет назад +3

    Hockey is better anyways

  • @Mannydejesushernandez
    @Mannydejesushernandez Год назад +1

    When I say football I’m referring to “soccer” when I’m talking about the nfl I’m calling it American football

  • @killercaos123
    @killercaos123 6 лет назад +3

    Can I just say:
    USA BEAT SCOTLAND IN RUGBY RECENTLY!!!!!!

    • @TheRedDeathYT
      @TheRedDeathYT 4 года назад

      Wat

    • @michaelmikeykellymikeydama5405
      @michaelmikeykellymikeydama5405 4 года назад

      Scotland didn't field a great side and the US only just won at home. Play it in Scotland with Scotland's best side and I see the Scots winning by about 60 points.

    • @chelno5880
      @chelno5880 2 года назад

      Who cares