I've always wandered this...

They invented it, they can call it what they want

>>149895123 (OP)
who is that

>>149895123 (OP)
The ball is a foot long

>>149895228
Ngolo Kante

>>149895123 (OP)
Ballfoot sounds like an african disease

>>149895623
my foot is a ball(oon)

>>149895123 (OP)
They don't, they call it soccer.

>>149909441
>Soccer
>faggy cockrock haircuts
>Scottish centre half bending over
80s American bullshit

>>149895123 (OP)
it's played with the foot mostly and there is a ball. The real question is why the people in America call a game that hardly is played with the foot "football" instead of gridiron ore something that actually describes their game.

>>149895123 (OP)
foot hit bol and bol go forward

english people will chastise americans for saying soccer but then in the next sentence use words like 'fag', 'trash', 'ass' without irony. football is the only word they're interested in preserving apparently.

Why do Americans call handegg "football", I've never understood this.

>>149915981
because when you are the predominant super power you don't have to make the distinction of calling it "yank football" or "yank rules football" like the Aussies and Irish do.

>>149916079
Everyone else calls it American Football. America is very much ridiculed like cesaer and bigus dicus are in the life of Brian. I declare the OP is a faggot!

soccer = soccerball = divegrass >>> (((football)))
gridiron = helmet rugby = handegg >>> (((football)))
simple as

>>149916120
which is a understandable distinction if football means something different to you. It's not like Aussies go "I'd like to watch the aussie rules football today" they say " turn on the footy".

>>149909441
Only posh faggots call it soccer. Common decent working class folk call it football

>>149895222
Technically it was invented as 'soccer' so despite the fact we villify you lot for calling it that, you are actually right.

>>149895228
Humbled halal customers by destroying their so called ''best midfield in the world'' by himself. Twice.
Maybe you memory holed it like you did the previous season? Kek

We actually don't know if it's called football because it's a game you play by kicking a ball with your feet, or whether it's because football games are played "on foot" rather than mounted on a horse.

Association Football is actually the odd one out in not letting the outfield players handle the ball like basically every other code of football. Though in its formant days you could, and there was stuff like rouges "marks" in Aussie Rules were a player could catch a ball with raised hand and then take a Free Kick.

It's all fascinating, and how they all were codified around similar times too.

The part that's always interested me is how we've probably being playing football games since like the 1300s (and kicking a ball way beyond that) but basically none of it survives on the historical record past a few Medieval Shrovetide and such type games still played today, but no records of teams or local tournaments or such. There might have been a 1500s Ronaldo who played foot-ball town to town scoring goals and we just don't know about it.

>>149916218
Aussie rules actually use the foot tho in play. Your whole game is based around passing with the only foot being on a punt or on kicking a field goal. and of course actual football was invented before gridiron American Football did, Americans simply took the name of football and used it for their game which of course was born out of rugby

>>149916582
>There might have been a 1500s Ronaldo who played foot-ball town to town scoring goals and we just don't know about it.
that depends if they had penalties where a guy strode up and tapped them home and then went back to doing nothing and waited for the next penalty tho

>>149916702
The original game resembled rugby without wingers more than modern football. The forward pass was illegal for a long time and even after legalization it was more akin to a trick play than one of the staples of the offense. Because as you pointed out Gridiron was born out of Rugby, which at the time was still called Football.
The game evolved but the name stayed the same.

>>149895228
Pessi "pecho frío" Cuckitini Infantino

>>149916582
>It's all fascinating, and how they all were codified around similar times too.
muscular Christianity, and people in Anglo countries had more spare time to spectate amateur sport being played by people rich enough to have no need to work as soon as they left school. amateur, codified sport then became professional sport.
mad to think somehow these conditions weren't the case in continental Europe.
>The part that's always interested me is how we've probably being playing football games since like the 1300s (and kicking a ball way beyond that) but basically none of it survives on the historical record past a few Medieval Shrovetide and such type games still played today, but no records of teams or local tournaments or such. There might have been a 1500s Ronaldo who played foot-ball town to town scoring goals and we just don't know about it.
cricket is the same. evidently it was a well known game by the 1600s but of what few written records survive, its only mentioned in passing. we didn't have newspapers covering everything under the sun back then, not until 1700s or 1800s (first newspaper report on cricket is from 1697.)
could easily have had sporting GOATs back then but were only known of by word of mouth.

The first game of American football was played using the English FA's rulebook, and as such it is both the first game of college American Football and the first game of college Soccer.

>>149895228
A despicable cuckold midget rigger

They taught us the word "soccer" and the imperial measurement system then abandoned both and act like they've never heard of these things

>>149918868
heh, we still use some elements of the imperial system. Also Americans scoff at the idea of measuring body weight in stones, even though that is an imperial weight measurement.

>>149915106
>80s American bullshit
"Soccer" is a British term.

>>149918868
>Abandoned both
At least as of a few years ago you could still watch Soccer Saturday and drive 20 miles up the M1 to see an away at Watford.

>>149921439
We still use miles.

>>149915250
Ok wtf is a rugby or a cricket than smart guy

>>149915250
Soccer is the only code of football that is primarily played with your feet. It is the least football of all footballs.

Correcting Americans on calling it football is extremely cringe and reddit. Realize that languages are different. You don't say to an Italian saying it in their language, UHH no sweaty, call it football because it's correct.

>>149923980
>call it soccer when you speak the American language

>>149921681
Rugby is a town with a public school (public school is a type of private school here don't ask) that made the Rugby ruleset of football

>>149895123 (OP)
only the poors do. im a toff so we call rugby football and call the other poor persons game soccer.
so rich football(sometimes rugger)and soccer
poor rugby and football

>>149924392
Well explained, that's really clear. Nice to see the toff education paid off.

>>149924392
I am inferior

>>149895123 (OP)
banter

1) They created the English language
2) They created the word "football"
3) They created the sport they call "football"
4) They created the original sport from where the sport you call "football" comes from
5) They created all the countries that call it "soccer"
6) Regardless of origin the names just makes more sense for the sport
7) Football is 100x more popular than American Football worldwide

>>149934088
B A S E D
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>>149934088
so desperate for white people points kek

>>149917048
In Spanish the feminine part of the couple takes “de” before tha man name so is Pessi pecho frío Cuckitini de Infantino

>>149895123 (OP)
For the same reason you mutt call your country "America"

>>149916294
Not really. Poshos called football soccer and rugby rugger, because they're gay. Football was always football to normal people.
Yanks just only see upper class people because they're all billionaires in the making (with massive medical debt and wageslave jobs at wallmart)

>>149934088
Basedzil
>>149934178
>the seethe

Another one to share.