No, no and thrice NO!! It's FOOTBALL, not soccer. You can't re-invent a game, and a name, that is over 100 years old! No wonder it's a 3.1 on IMDB. Shame on you, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who left the UK to chase money abroad - that obviously went well, lol! |
Technically the word SOCCER is a term for "football" as defined by the U.K. The USA just adopted it. But it does still baffle me why American Football is called "football" when it has nothing to do with feet and most of it is to do with hands. |
Rugby is a sport like the one people in the US call "football". Both are played holding the ball with your hand and hitting each other to grab the ball, but rugby is played without pads and with less anabolic intake. In real football, the one the whole planet plays, you play with your feet. |
As in: a ball played by foot? Amazing… |
Don't you think signing up with Man United was chasing after money as wel? Why would he ever leave Sweden if not for the money? |
Shame USA is already out of the World Cup already... Maybe stop calling football "soccer" and calling "football" a sport where you play grabbing the ball with your hands would help. |
The term "soccer" was coined in the UK a long time ago – at least as far back as the 1930s – to distinguish it from the other type of football played in the UK, aka "rugger". |
In 1872, the first Football Association Cup was played,,, which was the name it changed to after Folk Ball |
Thanks for the anonymous downvotes! The word "soccer" was first used at Oxford University in around 1875 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football |
Well, fakejt, I guess you are happy to keep calling it as the empire told you to call them. Even England don't call it soccer |