by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Monday November 02, 2020 @10:08AM (#60675026)
This is in Scotland. The sport played with a ball controlled with your feet is called football everywhere outside the US. The one more familiar to the US audience is referred to as "American Football" or handegg if you want to be more literal (or "Rugby for pussies" if you want to be more colourful).
Until fairly recently, "Soccer" was an acceptable term in Britain. Look at a British newspaper about the 1966 world cup final and you'll see plenty of mentions of "soccer players".
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It's football actually. (Score:3, Informative)
This is in Scotland. The sport played with a ball controlled with your feet is called football everywhere outside the US. The one more familiar to the US audience is referred to as "American Football" or handegg if you want to be more literal (or "Rugby for pussies" if you want to be more colourful).
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The sport played with a ball controlled with your feet is called football everywhere outside the US.
No; in Australia it's called soccer because, unlike in the US, we play football here.
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The sport you play is called, assocciation football. It came from the same sport we have in the US
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