Soccer is a British word though, but predominantly southerner / Oxfordian.

Association Football used to get contracted to Assoc or Soc to differentiate it from Rugby Football.

And in Oxford, they historically liked to add -er to the end of things; still in parlance today is calling Rugby “rugger”, £5 note “fiver”, the Bodleian Library “Bodder”.

Assoc became “soccer”.

It’s not an American thing. It’s a posh southern England thing that got exported to the states by American students at Oxford returning stateside and bringing the game back with them.

Blame the British, Oxford specifically, and their penchant to name things ending in -er. They're the ones that named it, and they hide from that fact now as if they were never a part of it.

https://www.history.com/articles/why-do-some-people-call-it-soccer

Actually I believe it's called "Football" because most ball games were originally played on horseback.

Football (Soccer) was one of the first ball games to be played on foot, hence Foot-ball

That's why Rugby, Canadian Football, Australian Football, and American Football are also types of "Football".

Also, the name "Soccer" was literally invented in England. It's short for "Association Football" (Association - Assoc - Soccer) so shut the f*** up

You want to blame someone, blame yourselves since you're the ones who created and colonized the word.

https://www.britannica.com/story/why-do-some-people-call-football-soccer

So dumb it hurts,

The term "soccer" was invented in England in the late 19th century by university students. It is widely attributed to Charles Wredford-Brown, an Oxford student.

Both the American and rest of the world versions of their respective ball games are played on foot, as opposed to polo that is played riding a horse. The latter was originally invented by Ralph Lauren, as commemorated in ubiquitous t-shirts with a gentlemanly collar.

Now hold on a minute this was all your idea.

¿Por qué no los dos? Personally tired of these primarily online binary semantic arguments. Gif, jif, football, soccer, fútbol, pineapple, ananas, eggplant, aubergine. We contain multitudes, celebrate these absolutely arbitrary differences.

Y’all are the ones who came up with the name soccer.

My brother in christ YOU CALLED IT SOCCER

Handball.

But you use both of your feet. Shouldn't it be called feetball then?

I wont hear from the UK about speaking English correctly. You are not serious people.

if it's called football, then why did YOU name it soccer? seems kind of silly to blame other people for using the name you insisted everyone use.

but that's like imperial measurements, you insisted everyone use them and then changed your mind down the line and now make fun of us for using the Imperial system that Imperial Britian came up with. you have a nasty habit of blaming everyone else for the problems you create.

But that ball is not shaped like a foot

The arrow is pointing to his shin though?

Football just means a game played on foot, as opposed to on horse.

I barely know her

IDK why we changed it from Gridiron. That shit sounds way cooler.

Gotta love it when people say "Americans tell everyone else what to do and how to do it" but also go "we should tell Americans what to do and how to do it"

soccer is just a shortening of “association football”

“Foot ball” in American English referring to “gridiron football.”

Comepare that to “Gaelic football”, “Australian football” or “Rugby football”.

These are all just different rule sets that have evolved from a common ancestor, they’re all football.

It's only soccer if they forget to wear their boots

Woah woah woah. I thought we agreed getting Americans to use A4 paper instead of 8.5x11 first, calculate by the metric instead of the imperial system second, measure economy by HDI instead of GDP third, and call it football instead of soccer last.