Because Americans are idiots they call a sport football after there already was a sport called football there was many arguements so Oxford created the term soccer which is short for associated football
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∙ 2011-09-30 18:03:07Only Americans call soccer...soccer! (everywhere else it is known as football)
Americans call soccer soccer, and football football!
The full name for "soccer" is "Association Football," which is so called to differentiate it from other games called Football. Association Football has so many syllables that it has been shortened to "Football." Then when Americans made there own football they renamed it soccer. Americans and Americans only call it soccer
Fútbol. What Americans call soccer.
soccer
football......what you Americans call soccer
Football (the americans call it soccer !)
They can, but most people will initially think they are talking about American Football when they do.
Football, which is equivalent to what North Americans call "soccer."
Football (Americans call it soccer) as well as Cricket.
Football or as the Americans call it soccer. In German it is "Fußball"
What Americans call soccer is what the rest of the world calls football.