It is a known fact that people in Europe, especially in England, hate when “football” is called “soccer”. The debate usually gets more intense every four years, when the World Cup takes place. People start to ask, why doesn’t the same sport have the same name throughout the world?

The term originally came from Britain and is based on the official name of the sport, “association football”. The only countries in the world where football is called soccer right now are the following: Australia, New Zealand, and The United States. The reason the word started is that is because they needed a new term of football in New Zealand. They started playing rugby, which became way more popular than soccer, therefore, they decided to switch to soccer. Same goes for Australia and the United States. Although, in the United States football is different than rugby.

Anyhow, the word originally came from Britain and then caught on to different countries. I think it is weird that people from England despise the word when they originally invented it. However, does it really make a difference if we call the same sport different names in some parts of the world? In my opinion, not really, but I have always known this sport as football and that’s what I will keep saying.

 

Source: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/13/soccer-not-football-_n_5492714.html