Soccer comes from Association Football, if they just called it football then it would get mixed up with American football. Association Football is abbreviated assoc which then changed to soccer.
I call it football
Wiki User
∙ 2011-09-13 23:45:28America call it soccer.
Soccer is popular all over the world including here in America. Not really, Soccer is popular over the world except America. Soccer in America but it is call football.
Federation International of Football Association .They call it Football because the original soccer is Football. But in America they call it soccer but its really called Football.
they call it football. however in america, it is known as soccer.
It is football in Britain, and soccer in America.
Football, The United states of America is the only country that calls Soccer, soccer. All of the other countries call it football.
technically it is called football it is just that america has another sport called football so they had to call it soccer.
Soccer (or as some call it "football")
America, Australia, New Zealand, are some countries which use the term soccer rather than, as in the UK, football.
The national sport of colombia is Futbol. In America here we call it soccer.
Soccer as we call it in America is very popular sport in Italy.
Yes we do play soccer in America.