Why Do Some People Call Football “Soccer

By madhupriya November 22,2022 Metalnation.org Image Credit:-Google

The sport known as football in Britain is called soccer in the U.S.

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In America, Canada, and Australia, soccer refers to football, also known as association football.

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This game became "football" in the US and "rugby" elsewhere. Soccer stayed soccer in the US.

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Most accounts say the game originated in England in the 12th century. This century, English meadows and roadways hosted football-like sports.

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American soccer. To most of the world, including England, it's football.

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Over 2,000 years ago, in ancient China, soccer was first documented in written history.

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Ebenezer Cobb Morley was an English sportsman. He's one of the FA's and modern football's dads.

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China. Soccer dates back 2,000 years to China. It's the world's most populous country with the most soccer fans (187 million).

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