To the anon who said it's soccer not football:

In the English language it's football. That's because it was a game, played with a ball, where you use your feet.
Then the Americans came along and invented their game. They decided (god only knows why) to use an existing word for it.
Clarification: Football and American Football are two different things. Soccer, for me, doesn't exist. It was a word made up by the Americans for convenience.

Technically it's Association Football, but I don't think we need that formality :)

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  1. paloschis said: Uhm, no /technically/ the English used the word soccer to differentiate the game from rugby. So we didn’t “make” anything up. And just because a word don’t exactly translate to “football” doesn’t mean it’s incorrect..
  2. smilethingswillgetbetter said: I’m American and I call it football because it makes more sense. It played with a ball and feet, unlike American football.
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