Glory hunter.
Because the game was invented here, a long time before American "Football". Question really ought to be, why do you call football "soccer". Grrr! ---- Soccer is an English coloquial version of the phrase 'Association Football' .The game is called Football NOT Soccer. The word 'Soccer' was used to describe on particular form of league of football.
Us & Cannada
Excercise
It's a contraction of the phrase "association football".
Soccer can be obsessive. Soccer results are official. Soccer is Olympian. Soccer is an outdoor sport.
"The football field" and "the soccer field" are English equivalents of the French phrase le terrain de foot. The masculine singular phrase also translates as "the football ground," "the football pitch." "the soccer ground" and "the soccer pitch" in English. The pronunciation will be "le teh-rehd foot" in Alsatian and Cevenol French.
In Portuguese, "beautiful game" is translated as "jogo bonito." This phrase is often used to describe soccer, especially in the context of Brazil's rich football culture, where the style of play is celebrated for its artistry and flair.
Football (Soccer)
Americans needed to distinguish it from their own gridiron football, so they used a short version of the phrase "association football".
I am a lover of all sports and can appreciate that in most parts of the world they call Soccer Football. It really annoys me however that Fifa the governing body of Soccer is trying to change Australian sporting culture buy trying to make Aussies say football, when referring to Soccer. I encourage all Australians to keep calling Soccer Soccer. How dare they try and change the Australian vocabulary. In Australia the term football is used to describe Australian Rules football and Rugby League, not Soccer.
St Johnstone, the Super J's (copyright Soccer AM)
Americans call soccer soccer, and football football!