I am 23, born and Raised in the US. I'e played Baseball, hockey, Basketball, Football, Football. I love sports but my favorites to watch and play are football and football. It sounds confusing but i call american football ... football and soccer is also football to me. One thing puzzling me where the hell did the name soccer come from. I know why american football is called foot ball but it really should be American rules football. Anyone know the answer to this?
It's short for Assocciation Football. Rugby (and rugby players) are known also as ruggers. In the late 19th century there were Association Rules football and Rugby rules football.
We should make the explaination of the roots of the word soccer a sticky or maybe part of the sign up procedure for newbies.
The name "soccer" came from England as a way to differentiate it from Rugby. The name "football" for American Football came from the fact that it evolved from Rugby.
Ok thats bananas, so in england they call soccer football or do they call it soccer? Oh yeah the coverage of the sport is like nada, ESPN sportscenter great show but never talks bout soccer. It sux man! When i was in ecuador in 2001 i used to go every sunday to a game, man that was fun!
They call it football because Rugby no longer goes by the sole name of "football" as it did a century ago.
They (Brits) call it football, and mock Americans for calling it soccer...which is strange since it is their word, not that they use it. Except for magazines and websites, that is...
I dunno but i heard an ad for Fox Sports a premier league pkg. Still i am confused. Football as in rugby was first or football as in soccer?
Well, I don't think the rules were formalized until the mid-19th century. If I recall correctly, both methods had been played until then, and when they decided to formalize the rules, there was a schism between those who wanted to use hands and those who didn't. Two associations formed, and the modern game of Rugby evolved from one association and modern football/soccer evolved from the other.
Whoa thats crazy, so then they were considered one. Then two forms developed association and rugby. Thats crazy man, sorta like the 2 species of man thing but us homosapiens won that won. Hey is soccer based upon the game played by the Aztecs?
Yes, crazy. Sort of like the catholics and the orthodox. Or the catholics and the protestants. Or the republicans and the democrats.
In order to differentiate the game from rugby, cricket, and bathhouse swordfighting, it was given the name "asSOCiation football," or ASSBALL. That joke gets funnier every time I tell it.
Correct. Before codification, two teams would meet before a match and decide on the rules. In some games, they would play the kicking style (soccer) one half and the hacking style (originated at the Rugby, as the myth goes) the other. The kicking style became known as Association Football when a group of schools met and formed the Football Association in 1863 and formally banned the use of hands and hacking.
British Premier League has to be the hardest league. When was the last time a club from Serie A or La Liga beat a BPL club? Numbers don't lie.
Never mind all this nonsense, Mikey...who do you think is better- Pele or Maradona?? That's the real question.
Well I am not an astute a fan as the rest of you but thats tough! Pele I beliee is a much more important player in the aspect that he changed the way soccer is played. much like Jordan changed basketball. Maradona on the other hand made a lot of achievements on field. He scored alot of goals and technically is a better player cause of his numbers but numbers aren't everything. His conduct off the field (yayo) and the Bastituta kiss was weird. Therefore I'd have to go with Pele.
In fact, the word soccer is used in most English-speaking countries, except Great Britain. Football is actually rugby in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. In Ireland, football is Gaelic(mispelled ?) football. In UK, the rugby fans also used the word "football". I heard from some source that the word "soccer" is used by the upper class in England.