Football is the official name for soccer. Soccer comes from the Football asssociation. Only in the USA and Canada do they say soccer.
The global name for football is of course football. The global name for American football is gridiron. Gridiron is a code of Rugby or handball and not football.
Football is a sport where players control the ball with their feet and only football does this.
Football has more participants in North America and gridiron has more spectators. Mainly because Americans prefer football but struggle with the technicalities and so they do better at gridiron which is a more basic sport.
in north america
In any where outside North America soccer is called football
If you mean America as in North and South America, then the sport would be soccer. If you mean America as in North America, then the sport would still be soccer. If you mean America as in the United States of America, then football (American Football) would be the answer.
Football. (Soccer as it is known in North America)
English/European/world football, in North America it is known as soccer.
North America is the only place in the world that refers to soccer as "soccer". In other countries it is called football or futball because it involves a foot kicking a ball.
soccer... more commonly spelled futbol. Internationally, the game of American football is known as 'gridiron'. The vast majority of the world calls soccer football. Only in North America is football called soccer and gridiron called football.
soccer... more commonly spelled futbol. Internationally, the game of American football is known as 'gridiron'. The vast majority of the world calls soccer football. Only in North America is football called soccer and gridiron called football.
Yes we do play soccer in America.
Most likely football, the name in pretty much everywhere other than North America. Soccer is only used to distinguish the game from American Football, what people think of when you say football in NA.
Some non-league football competitions will depend on which league and form of football one is referring to. In European football (soccer in North America) there are tournaments such as the FIFA World Cup.
North america is bigger - at just over twice the area.