World Cup Bid! Obama grew up playing Football (soccer) in Jakarta Indonesia

[Kasz216]

Thatmax said:

Kasz216 said:
Who didn't play soccer as a kid? It's pretty much the first sport every parent puts their kid in. (Yes even in the US.)

 

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Note that Football is an abreviation of what Soccer/Football is called.

Assosiation League Football.

Soccer is an abreviation of this as well.  Both are correct.

It's like how people call America both "The United States" and "America."

Football is amusingly the "America" in this situation since Rugby is short for

"Rubgy Football"

So... There is less wrong with calling it soccer then there is calling it football.  In the same way people complain that people who call the USA America aren't counting for other countries in America.

If you continue to call it football you shouldn't complain when people call the United States "America."