Soccer's a fricken joke.

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Seece said:

chocoloco said:

Seece said:
It's football, America can't lay rights to that name.

GAF and this site is dominated by Americans and Canadians so generally football is often assumed to be NFL. Aussies and New Zealanders seem to call it soccer as well.

That doesn't matter tho, the facts remain!

No, the fact of the matter is the word soccer was invented by the English to distinguish this sport from other kinds of football. Football being a descriptor for a range of sports using some combination of a foot and ball.

As such it is perfectly correct to call the sport either soccer or football or so says the Oxford Dictionary.  The advantage of the word soccer is that it is more specific and that's why it tends to be favoured in countries where there a number of popular sports that can be classified as football.