Why do Europeans call that sport "football"?

[repaeR]

It's called soccer. Not football. Europeans are so weird.

[Protomesh]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Jade Strawberries:

I know that this is a bait thread, but I don't understand this obsession with Americans that Europeans have. I'm European myself and I don't mind the word 'soccer'.
Europeans always call Americans ignorant and uneducated, yet they ignore the fact that countries use different languages. Every country that speaks the same languages all have different variations of words and such.
It's a terrible sport anyway. Just a bunch of man babies pretending they got kicked in the leg so they can get their opponent dismissed. That, and it's boring.

say that in Brazil

[Tsubame ⭐]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Protomesh:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Jade Strawberries:

I know that this is a bait thread, but I don't understand this obsession with Americans that Europeans have. I'm European myself and I don't mind the word 'soccer'.
Europeans always call Americans ignorant and uneducated, yet they ignore the fact that countries use different languages. Every country that speaks the same languages all have different variations of words and such.
It's a terrible sport anyway. Just a bunch of man babies pretending they got kicked in the leg so they can get their opponent dismissed. That, and it's boring.

say that in Brazil

I am from there and I fully agree with Jade, not just regarding the nomenclature, but the subjective tidbit at the end as well.

Also, I do not mind calling the sport soccer, especially since this term was coined by the British, and not the Americans.

[Enterprofilenamehere]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Jade Strawberries:

I know that this is a bait thread, but I don't understand this obsession with Americans that Europeans have.

I assume it's because of how strong U.S. cultural influence is and its economic power.

My mom's parents, who immigrated from England, often talked about certain American things with disdain; usually trivial things like football (the American version), pronunciations of words, etc. even though they moved to Canada, which isn't that different from the U.S.

[Dracoco OwO]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Jade Strawberries:

I know that this is a bait thread, but I don't understand this obsession with Americans that Europeans have. I'm European myself and I don't mind the word 'soccer'.
Europeans always call Americans ignorant and uneducated, yet they ignore the fact that countries use different languages. Every country that speaks the same languages all have different variations of words and such.
It's a terrible sport anyway. Just a bunch of man babies pretending they got kicked in the leg so they can get their opponent dismissed. That, and it's boring.

Tbh only Italians players pretend to be injured, well that used to be the case and i don't like either Football anyways.

[Enterprofilenamehere]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Dracoco OwO:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Jade Strawberries:

I know that this is a bait thread, but I don't understand this obsession with Americans that Europeans have. I'm European myself and I don't mind the word 'soccer'.
Europeans always call Americans ignorant and uneducated, yet they ignore the fact that countries use different languages. Every country that speaks the same languages all have different variations of words and such.
It's a terrible sport anyway. Just a bunch of man babies pretending they got kicked in the leg so they can get their opponent dismissed. That, and it's boring.

Tbh only Italians players pretend to be injured, well that used to be the case and i don't like either Football anyways.

If there's one thing I hate in sport it's flopping, and soccer is rife with it. Penalties are too severe, which encourages flopping. It's not the only reason I don't enjoy it though.

[crunchyfrog]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Jade Strawberries:

I know that this is a bait thread, but I don't understand this obsession with Americans that Europeans have. I'm European myself and I don't mind the word 'soccer'.
Europeans always call Americans ignorant and uneducated, yet they ignore the fact that countries use different languages. Every country that speaks the same languages all have different variations of words and such.
It's a terrible sport anyway. Just a bunch of man babies pretending they got kicked in the leg so they can get their opponent dismissed. That, and it's boring.

Well yes and no. Cuts both ways. This thrad is made the other way round.

Anywho, it's an OK sport. Personally, I dont; care for the man babies.

But I bloody loved out English ladies team this year winning the European Championship. They were ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ruthless (unless there was someon called Ruth playing of course).

[crunchyfrog]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Enterprofilenamehere:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Dracoco OwO:

Tbh only Italians players pretend to be injured, well that used to be the case and i don't like either Football anyways.

If there's one thing I hate in sport it's flopping, and soccer is rife with it. Penalties are too severe, which encourages flopping. It's not the only reason I don't enjoy it though.

Not so much anymore. video refeering has cut that down.

[YVIR]

There’s a ball that gets kicked around by the feet therefore football.

[𝕎𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕫]

Początkowo opublikowane przez repaeR:

Why do Europeans call that sport "football"?
It's called soccer. Not football. Europeans are so weird.

It's rather weird to call a sport football instead of handball if it's obviously almost exclusively played with the hands...¯\__/¯

[Enterprofilenamehere]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Wouselz:

Początkowo opublikowane przez repaeR:

Why do Europeans call that sport "football"?
It's called soccer. Not football. Europeans are so weird.

It's rather weird to call a sport football instead of handball if it's obviously almost exclusively played with the hands...¯\_:johnFace:_/¯

It's played on foot though. Also the name handball is already taken by another sport.

[Dagný]

Początkowo opublikowane przez d¢:

Początkowo opublikowane przez repaeR:

It's called soccer. Not football. Europeans are so weird.

The name "soccer" came from an amalgamation of words in an acronym, from Britain, pretty sure.

I don't know why they abandoned the term.

Ireland, the US had a huge influx of Irish immigrants and I'm sure one of the little impacts is the word soccer

examples

https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/

https://www.irishnews.com/sport/footballsoccer/

[𝕎𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕫]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Enterprofilenamehere:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Wouselz:

It's rather weird to call a sport football instead of handball if it's obviously almost exclusively played with the hands...¯\__/¯

It's played on foot though. Also the name handball is already taken by another sport.

I know but real handball isn't a thing in American or is it?

BTW:
The only time the "football" get kicked is when it's about a kickoff or to get a field goal or did I miss something...

BTOW:
What American call "football" is called "American football" in Europe so there's no possibility to confuse it with real football...¯\__/¯

[Enterprofilenamehere]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Wouselz:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Enterprofilenamehere:

It's played on foot though. Also the name handball is already taken by another sport.

I know but real handball isn't a thing in American or is it?

BTW:
The only time the "football" get kicked is when it's about a kickoff or to get a field goal or did I miss something...:iamthink:

BTOW:
What American call "football" is called "American football" in Europe so there's no possibility to confuse it with real football...¯\_:catwink:_/¯

I remember playing something in high school called handball. I see no problem with calling football football. Soccer is called soccer here so there should be no confusion.

[TRethehedgehog]

Bait

[L1qu1dator]

Because it's played with feet... Foot-ball.
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