It's called soccer in places where it's a B or C tier sport. America, Australia, New Zealand at least have at least one other massively more popular sport called Football.

“A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied”

― Larry David

Thusly, I call the boring game "soccer" and the often decided by refs game where everyone has brain damage "gridiron". Nobody wins, which is beautiful in its own way.

That ridiculous name was all Britain's fault

This is like arguing over whether it's a truck vs a lorry, or an apartment vs a flat.

Gotta love it when people say "Americans tell everyone else what to do and how to do it" but also go "we should tell Americans what to do and how to do it"

Now hold on a minute this was all your idea.

Trying to apply logic at Americans. Waste of time. They still use imperial and call their sport football even though it's without using a foot and ball.

I wont hear from the UK about speaking English correctly. You are not serious people.

So dumb it hurts,

The term "soccer" was invented in England in the late 19th century by university students. It is widely attributed to Charles Wredford-Brown, an Oxford student.

My brother in christ YOU CALLED IT SOCCER

What are they even all doing in here, anyway? Clearly starved for Greggs sausage roll banter in that benighted continent.

You want to blame someone, blame yourselves since you're the ones who created and colonized the word.

https://www.britannica.com/story/why-do-some-people-call-football-soccer

But that ball is not shaped like a foot

Y’all are the ones who came up with the name soccer.

soccer is just a shortening of “association football”

“Foot ball” in American English referring to “gridiron football.”

Comepare that to “Gaelic football”, “Australian football” or “Rugby football”.

These are all just different rule sets that have evolved from a common ancestor, they’re all football.

But you use both of your feet. Shouldn't it be called feetball then?

Soccer is a British word though, but predominantly southerner / Oxfordian.

Association Football used to get contracted to Assoc or Soc to differentiate it from Rugby Football.

And in Oxford, they historically liked to add -er to the end of things; still in parlance today is calling Rugby “rugger”, £5 note “fiver”, the Bodleian Library “Bodder”.

Assoc became “soccer”.

It’s not an American thing. It’s a posh southern England thing that got exported to the states by American students at Oxford returning stateside and bringing the game back with them.

I thought we agreed getting Americans to use A4 paper instead of 8.5x11 first, calculate by the metric instead of the imperial system second, measure economy by HDI instead of GDP third, and call it football instead of soccer last.

Yes it fucking is

Actually I believe it's called "Football" because most ball games were originally played on horseback.

Football (Soccer) was one of the first ball games to be played on foot, hence Foot-ball

That's why Rugby, Canadian Football, Australian Football, and American Football are also types of "Football".

Also, the name "Soccer" was literally invented in England. It's short for "Association Football" (Association - Assoc - Soccer) so shut the f*** up