Why Is Football Called Soccer In The USA?

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  • @NameExplain
    @NameExplain  6 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    Hey guys! There won’t be any videos next week as I’m away but there’ll be videos the week after. See you soon!

    • @veetee355
      @veetee355 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ok

    • @informallyinfernal9002
      @informallyinfernal9002 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hey Patrick
      Nobody in our India calls football as futabol
      But a great video BTW
      best of luck for your future endeavors as always

    • @patricklo1514
      @patricklo1514 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      So what did Indian actually call football?

    • @informallyinfernal9002
      @informallyinfernal9002 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Patrick Lo just football
      Like rest if the world

    • @MatthewMcVeagh
      @MatthewMcVeagh 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Rugby League vs. Rugby Union?
      Australian Rules Football?
      Gaelic Football?

  • @abhithp
    @abhithp 6 ปีที่แล้ว +696

    No one here in India use the word 'Futabol' we use the word Football

    • @parthbonde2106
      @parthbonde2106 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      ikr

    • @wg_spiritomb
      @wg_spiritomb 6 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      Futa, huh, sounds like a genre that i would never explore.

    • @mesobad3211
      @mesobad3211 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Ash Kechum bro why whould you tell that

    • @LARAUJO_0
      @LARAUJO_0 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      There are plenty of languages in India and probably at least one of them calls it Futabol

    • @rafaelcalvo3516
      @rafaelcalvo3516 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      futebol is called in Brazil.

  • @abrokatec
    @abrokatec 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1548

    American Rugby is a much better name 👏

    • @mduardo
      @mduardo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Unitedstatian/USA Rugby 🏈

    • @WolverinePete
      @WolverinePete 5 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      We already call it football, so why change?

    • @libidum
      @libidum 5 ปีที่แล้ว +327

      @@WolverinePete Because you barely use your feet, and don't tell me it's called football because "the ball is one foot long".

    • @WolverinePete
      @WolverinePete 5 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      @@libidum It doesnt matter how much or little its kicked. We have "football" and your other countries have "soccer". We honestly dont care what you call what we play or what you play. Soccer is a British word anyway.

    • @teddyayele8273
      @teddyayele8273 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Wolverine Pete because we wanna call it how we want

  • @theJellyjoker
    @theJellyjoker 6 ปีที่แล้ว +795

    Football isn't football unless it's football.

  • @StFrancisEnjoyer
    @StFrancisEnjoyer 6 ปีที่แล้ว +888

    It must be called Football because it is played with the foot and not with the socc

    • @ratlinggull2223
      @ratlinggull2223 6 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      s o c c

    • @prinzvonmalaya4966
      @prinzvonmalaya4966 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Augusto Jr oy vey

    • @LARAUJO_0
      @LARAUJO_0 6 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      What if you're wearing socks?

    • @zachrose359
      @zachrose359 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Sholom

    • @jmal
      @jmal 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Some maneuvers in the sport require you to use your shins to hit the ball. Apart from the shin guards, what is it covered in?
      That's right. A SOCk.
      Also, if you were to call that game football, use of the hands in throw-ins should be banned, as well as the keeper using their hands, and no contact of the ball with the body or head should be made.
      So it's only proper to call it SOCCER. Mostly because it pisses you off. And it's easier to rhyme.

  • @jasepoag8930
    @jasepoag8930 6 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    So like many English words, the Brits came up with the original word/spelling, then abandoned the original word, and then mock everyone else for still using the original word.

    • @strawberry.teapot
      @strawberry.teapot 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Yeah, the English seem a very cheery and agreeable bunch.

    • @thegod4281
      @thegod4281 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      we haven’t abandoned the original word it was ‘association football’ and that was form the upper class who didn’t even liek the game. i’m sure you’ve got class stereotypes in america but over here they toffs and they don’t play it. the whole of the country has used football forever cos we don’t all hve monacles snd top hats

    • @Alan_Mac
      @Alan_Mac 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Only pathetic thickos and plebs mock people for using 'soccer'. The rest of us don't give a fuck.

    • @krup787
      @krup787 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      m.th-cam.com/video/H4TyIsaIRQ0/w-d-xo.html

    • @annoyingguyoninternet1631
      @annoyingguyoninternet1631 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You know the name soccer sucks when the country originated no longer use it. Just like imperial system US use it but the country that INVENTED IT no longer use it.

  • @markdp1983
    @markdp1983 6 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    Soccer is a British term still occasionally used there for the sport they invented..... The British word "Soccer" was later used in the USA and Australia because those countries already had their own versions of football by the time Association Football arrived there..... Its not hard!!!

    • @thatbg3357
      @thatbg3357 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Mark DP you will never find a British person who will cal it soccer u Twat

    • @theterrar3566
      @theterrar3566 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@thatbg3357Lots of Rugby fans call it soccer. Only insecure fairies get offended when someone calls their favourite sport soccer which is a right word

    • @thatbg3357
      @thatbg3357 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      tt btw, i didn’t get offended i just said no British Person calls it soccer which is true

    • @theterrar3566
      @theterrar3566 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@thatbg3357 But they do. When England won the world cup the newspapers said they won the soccer world cup. Read any british newspaper prior to 2000s and you'll get what I'm saying. Plenty of rugby fans call it soccer as well. No one in Britain had any problem regarding the word 'soccer' until a generation of butthurt British kids chose to get offended over someone calling 'potayto' 'patahto'. Seriously, these guys sound like feminists arguing over equal pay.

    • @thatbg3357
      @thatbg3357 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      tt England won the World cup last time in 1966 So maybe a few people and a couple of newspapers called it soccer back then but nobody does anymore, I have friends who play rugby and they call this ⚽️ football, I know that all of them hate the American one though cuz they say it’s rugby for pussies

  • @hijtohema
    @hijtohema 6 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    Association Football still is the official name for the game. The acronym of its governing body FIFA stands for Federation Internationale de Football Association, the International Federation of Association Football

    • @deaundrebondscheeks2
      @deaundrebondscheeks2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Spiros Pa Nope, I call it FIFA like the rest of the world.

    • @deaundrebondscheeks2
      @deaundrebondscheeks2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @Spiros Pa But Soccer is a shortened version of the full name of the sport I'm pretty sure the video explained it. But if you're still gonna complain about the name then this conversation will be very short.

    • @haseebpavaratty6249
      @haseebpavaratty6249 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Spiros Pa 🤣

    • @_Jake.From.Statefarm_
      @_Jake.From.Statefarm_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@deaundrebondscheeks2 So you like to call it by it's abbreviated name, but soccer is off limits? Cause that makes sense?

    • @maxropercalvo6132
      @maxropercalvo6132 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      FOOTBALL has been called FOOTBALL since it was created in ENGLAND until today 2023. It NEVER changed its name or had another name and it was NEVER EVER called "soccer"
      The terms "soccer" and "rugger" were just NICKNAMES used by a few Englishmen a long time ago to call FOOTBALL and RUGBY and their use was not even popular even as NICKNAMES, these terms were only used as NICKNAMES by a few Englishmen later never again these terms were not even used as NICKNAMES and the few English people who used these terms as NICKNAMES stopped using them
      "soccer" isn't even a word, it's the abbreviation of the word ASSOCIATION, that's why the USA got ridiculed to change the name of its real FOOTBALL association only in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call it like this to the true original and real FOOTBALL the biggest popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD and so they live in their unreal falsified and fantasy world poor stupid people
      The FOOTBALL sport invented in ENGLAND that means BALÓN PIE FOOT PIE BALL BALÓN as its name indicates it is a sport that is played with a BALL and the FEET and is the most popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD long after the idiots of the USA they invented a "sport" that is a cheap copy of rugby and copied the name to the true original and real FOOTBALL, in addition to copying the name to another somewhat illegal sport, they wrongly copied the name because that "sport" that only exists and is consumed in the US is plays with the FOOTBALL HANDS has absolutely nothing, that is, they don't even use to copy names, they even do it wrong and then the shameless US have the audacity to change the name of their real FOOTBALL association only in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call real FOOTBALL "soccer" something that DOESN'T EXIST and only call their fake "sport" "football" insignificant cheap copy of rugby that only ex Is and is consumed in the USA
      The United States Football Federation was founded on April 5, 1913 under the name of the United States Football Association. A year later, it was incorporated into FIFA in 1914. Until 1974 it was renamed to the current name United States Soccer Federation. In the USA the real FOOTBALL was also called by its name FOOTBALL as in the whole WORLD name that they just changed to their real FOOTBALL association in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call real FOOTBALL "soccer" and so they live in their unreal world falsified and fantasy poor stupid people.

  • @citiesskyscrapers4561
    @citiesskyscrapers4561 6 ปีที่แล้ว +514

    Handegg looks like a great name.

    • @anglomapper6895
      @anglomapper6895 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      LOOKS

    • @StarlightNightflame
      @StarlightNightflame 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      It's what I've always called it :) Makes more sense.

    • @bobbyhill3447
      @bobbyhill3447 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      povertyball looks like a good name for soccer.

    • @AF911vids
      @AF911vids 6 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Bobby Hill cringiest joke

    • @bobbyhill3447
      @bobbyhill3447 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Afham mk normies using cringe. Yikes

  • @phantomgold3255
    @phantomgold3255 4 ปีที่แล้ว +456

    *Imagine a sport where you use hands and squares but it is called "football"*

    • @fxrnweh-hd5dq
      @fxrnweh-hd5dq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Ikr
      It makes no sense lol

    • @phantomgold3255
      @phantomgold3255 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Guys stop, i wasn't talking about football or soccer, look *"squares"* read bruh, i was making up another sport

    • @phantomgold3255
      @phantomgold3255 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Jacob-hm1th but its not a ball

    • @phantomgold3255
      @phantomgold3255 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Remus *"you guys are weird"* you guys??? You we're talking to 1 person

    • @phantomgold3255
      @phantomgold3255 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Remus im not american you stupid idiot 😂😂

  • @queenfanatic195
    @queenfanatic195 6 ปีที่แล้ว +234

    In Ireland, "football" to us means Gaelic football (which also uses hands) and so despite being so close to the UK, we say soccer too

    • @lulu-ex2zg
      @lulu-ex2zg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Orlagh Nic Fhionnbhairr soccer is a better name lol

    • @kaizer521
      @kaizer521 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Never Had a life not really football you play with your feet so football is way better name

    • @workspaceofduc
      @workspaceofduc 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@lulu-ex2zg Soccer is the name for suckers. It's football by the way

    • @spudson60fps35
      @spudson60fps35 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@lulu-ex2zg In your fuxking Dream.american Kid

    • @spudson60fps35
      @spudson60fps35 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@lulu-ex2zg your username Matches Get A Life And Prove A Point

  • @balaam_7087
    @balaam_7087 6 ปีที่แล้ว +318

    I’m not a sports guy at all, but I found this vid fascinating and hilarious to boot. “Hand-egg” LOL

    • @bobbyhill3447
      @bobbyhill3447 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Balaam _ soccer= povertyball

    • @AF911vids
      @AF911vids 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Bobby Hill handegg is better

    • @bobbyhill3447
      @bobbyhill3447 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Afham mk poverty ball is better. Poor peoples game

    • @metpach
      @metpach 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bobby Hill it really is, the only reason soccer or football or futbul or whatever is as popular as it is, is cause it a sport that the poorest of the poor can play. They will literally kick rags and rocks round barefoot.

    • @AF911vids
      @AF911vids 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      EpicJoe P so your point is..

  • @kenmograd2009
    @kenmograd2009 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Historically, the name “gridiron” is used interchangeably for the game of North American Football. This stems back when you had three downs to move the ball five yards. The field was patterned in a grid-like pattern with lines at every five yards along the width and the length of the field. This pattern remained until the early 1920s, well after the introduction of the forward pass changed the amount of yards to gain to ten (and in the USA, the addition of a fourth down).

    • @Ranakade
      @Ranakade ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Gridiron sounds more epic than American football imo 🤣

    • @enriquegonzales8186
      @enriquegonzales8186 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Ranakade I prefer gridiron too and hope it changes to it with time.

  • @HP3Lover
    @HP3Lover 6 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    Also in Australia “football” is a completely different sport from soccer and gridiron

  • @kjenk19
    @kjenk19 6 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    Australia commonly calls the sport soccer because we already have 3 other sports called football. Aussie rules, rugby league and rugby union are all referred to as football.

    • @SteveHuggsYT
      @SteveHuggsYT 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Kobi Jenkins how is Aussie rules played differently?

    • @TehStormOG
      @TehStormOG 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Scariest Rogue it's a totally separate sport that one guy just invented. It's very different from other forms of football

    • @benwhite6261
      @benwhite6261 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Scariest Rogue firstly it’s played on a much larger oval, of which the dimensions change but around 170m by 130m. In Australian Football, you can use your hands, and the main object is too kick the ball through the large sticks at each end, scoring a goal. To move the ball you can kick (most common) or punch the ball. The sport has no offside, so players line up all across the ground. This makes the game fairly free flowing. The sport is full contact, so tackling and bumping is allowed.

    • @zulphur
      @zulphur 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Footie

    • @JustinThomas7
      @JustinThomas7 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Also our team are the Socceroos. Footballeroos doesn't really have the same ring to it.

  • @jecos1966
    @jecos1966 6 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    In Australia we call American football Gridion

    • @matnat21
      @matnat21 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      jecos jecos that name is 1000x better tbh

    • @workspaceofduc
      @workspaceofduc 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      In most of the world, we call American football Handegg

    • @spudson60fps35
      @spudson60fps35 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@workspaceofduc How About HandEballed

    • @deaundrebondscheeks2
      @deaundrebondscheeks2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@workspaceofduc Dumb name

    • @workspaceofduc
      @workspaceofduc 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@deaundrebondscheeks2 That's my name in CSGO account, any problem?

  • @shoutinghorse
    @shoutinghorse 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    The game has historically always been called soccer in Ireland too, only recently is football being used more which probably comes from the TV influence of the English Premier League. Interestingly the New Zealand national team have officially changed from soccer to football and are now called 'New Zealand Football' (NZF)
    The 'er' prefix comes from Oxford university and is known as an 'Oxforderism' and most probably has its roots from slang of the public school system in England (private fee paying schools) The term Rugger was often used for Rugby although that seems to have gone out of fashion nowadays.
    There is some thought that 'erisms' originated at Rugby school which would actually mean that Soccer was invented by Rugby.

    • @Jiar14
      @Jiar14 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bud it's called football ⚽️ not soccer

    • @Keli_mafuyu
      @Keli_mafuyu ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@Jiar14it's just cultural difference, both football and soccer are officially accepted in different countries

    • @Jiar14
      @Jiar14 ปีที่แล้ว

      @aratakiitto2387 no it ain't bro you only pick one side and that's it

  • @Fassislau
    @Fassislau 6 ปีที่แล้ว +194

    I cannot believe you didn't mention the italian name "Calccio" and its origins!! I think it's one of the few countries with a different name for football!

    • @MsMinoula
      @MsMinoula 6 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      It's not like he reviewed all languages with a different word for football, he concentrated on the English speaking countries and he just highlighted it is mostly football around the world.

    • @quakquak6141
      @quakquak6141 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      as an italian I always found it weird that other non english speaking countries usually don't have a unique name for football but just a variation of the english term (btw it's spelled calcio, the "i" is muted, is there to signify that the previous "c" must be pronounced like in chair and not like in cat)

    • @neventomicic330
      @neventomicic330 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Nogomet in Slavic countries. Noga= foot, met= play with a ball (like Ruko-met= handball).

    • @hatzisn
      @hatzisn 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Why is it called calcio in Italian? What is the origin of this word? In greece we call it ποδόσφαιρο (podòsfero) which is exactly the same term as in english as πόδι/pòdi=foot and σφαίρα/sfèra is tranlated as sphere and in this case it is used with the meaning ball.

    • @hatzisn
      @hatzisn 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Got that... It comes from the verb calciare which means to kick and calcio is the noun. Vero?

  • @js_4366
    @js_4366 6 ปีที่แล้ว +314

    It’s football lads

    • @venusxaino
      @venusxaino 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Voetje ballen

    • @aucore3634
      @aucore3634 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yah...

    • @veetee355
      @veetee355 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      jalkapallo

    • @alaoisemcgrath3647
      @alaoisemcgrath3647 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      No soccer

    • @js_4366
      @js_4366 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Alaoise Mcgrath American football is hand egg

  • @Donal01
    @Donal01 6 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Lots of people in Ireland also call it soccer because we have our own sport called football too

    • @3dsaulgoodman43
      @3dsaulgoodman43 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@akulakaboom It's more known as Gaelic football, but maybe Irish football is acceptable.

    • @levi2732
      @levi2732 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      i love ireland just for the gingers girls

    • @K_ingh16
      @K_ingh16 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@levi2732 and little green elfs

  • @john11719
    @john11719 6 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Yet other non English speaking places call it closer to soccer, like Japan, Sakkā which is why I am rooting for them

    • @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
      @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      john11719
      Someone should make a list of how every language on Earth calls this sport.

    • @john11719
      @john11719 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      You mean this? i.imgur.com/2GHdRDg.jpg

    • @garrusn7702
      @garrusn7702 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Read This They still call it soccer.

    • @elenabeatricemartinelli8426
      @elenabeatricemartinelli8426 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      we call it "calcio" in Italian (cul-cho, sorry but I don't know the official phonetic symbols). and calcio means kick. so it translates to kickball.

    • @tanyathon7616
      @tanyathon7616 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      because they where isolated except for dutch a few hundred years back and then the americans came before engeland

  • @ashknoecklein
    @ashknoecklein 6 ปีที่แล้ว +213

    I'm from New England, where people have been into soccer for quite a while. Whenever a British person makes fun of me for calling it soccer, I'm like "but it's YOUR word!" lol

    • @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
      @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yeah!🤣

    • @Lorem_64
      @Lorem_64 6 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Yeah but they gave up that word decades ago.

    • @dmadalengoitia
      @dmadalengoitia 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      weehawk you mean football?

    • @RyanControl
      @RyanControl 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      So everyone needs to be just like the Brits? This is the 21st century. Haven't we realized by now that cultural and linguistic diversity are a good thing?

    • @NikhileshSurve
      @NikhileshSurve 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      weehawk Yes but a word by elites not the common people lol.

  • @ThisOldHat
    @ThisOldHat 6 ปีที่แล้ว +208

    FALSE: The name "football" comes from the fact that the game is played on foot, as opposed to horseback. It was commonly used to refer to a variety of games played by the peasant classes in europe, since the aristocracy tended to prefer games played on horseback.

    • @SquirrelArmyStudios2015
      @SquirrelArmyStudios2015 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      So why isn't Polo called Horseball?

    • @LARAUJO_0
      @LARAUJO_0 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      That still means the name comes from using your foot

    • @TehStormOG
      @TehStormOG 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nope your wrong.

    • @artv.9989
      @artv.9989 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Yeah Ive noticed this guy doesnt go into too much detailed research on the topics hes talking about, probably just reads about it on wikipedia for 10 minutes, also LARAUJO, not really, if thats so then why was rugby also called football?

    • @Rogerioapsandrade
      @Rogerioapsandrade 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Art V. I wonder also. He never said the term gridion football, which was the real term for any kind of football that derivates from rugby, like American, Gaelic, Canadian, Australian football

  • @pualamnusantara7903
    @pualamnusantara7903 6 ปีที่แล้ว +314

    Let's call it "Kickball".

    • @shorpy3407
      @shorpy3407 6 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Already taken

    • @jonadabtheunsightly
      @jonadabtheunsightly 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Kickball is another sport, which until recently (circa 1990) was much more widely known and played in America than soccer. Anyway, the name "soccer" originates in England, so it's rather hypocritical of Brits to complain about it being called that.
      Also, the "foot" in football is a third of a yard, so it only makes sense for sports where that's actually a significant aspect of the game. HTH.HAND.

    • @hoangkimviet8545
      @hoangkimviet8545 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree :-0

    • @jizzuschrist6252
      @jizzuschrist6252 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      since we living in the future lets call it "GOAL 2000" all in caps

    • @sinoroman
      @sinoroman 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      GOOOOAAAAALLLLball

  • @monnetheepicgamer
    @monnetheepicgamer 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    As an American who calls it “Soccer” I still find “Football” better. (IM TALKING ABOUT THE ONE WHERE YOU ACTUALLY USE YOUR FOOT) The Football in my country should be called “Archball” because your throwing in into an arch.

  • @jyrki21
    @jyrki21 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Relatedly: American football in its origins resembled what is now called Canadian football much more closely (field size, number of downs, etc.). The rules were set by teams from McGill University (in Montreal) and Harvard (in Massachusetts) and only later diverged from this in the U.S., in part to account for the smaller field that happened to be available.

  • @dimesonhiseyes9134
    @dimesonhiseyes9134 6 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    It seems to me colonialist britts are really the only ones that are concerned that some countries use the word soccer. It just baffles them that not everyone talks exactly the same way they do.

    • @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
      @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Dimes On His Eyes
      "Colonialist Britts"?

    • @a2falcone
      @a2falcone 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Almost the whole world uses the term football, or terms with similar sound or meaning. And in all those countries people find it funny when it's called soccer and other sports that use mostly the hands are called football.

    • @galanie
      @galanie 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Yeah Americans quit listening to what England wanted us to do in the 1770s and they expect us to change our world to suit them NOW?

    • @isaacthegoat1432
      @isaacthegoat1432 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@galanie No one said that.

    • @isaacthegoat1432
      @isaacthegoat1432 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was disowned in England and what they call football isn't really football.

  • @shaungordon9737
    @shaungordon9737 6 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    I believe Ireland also calls it soccer. The UK is probably the only English-speaking country that calls it Football
    The only people in Australia who call it 'Football' are those who play it, but most of the public still calls it soccer

    • @LarkinsDeLaMare
      @LarkinsDeLaMare 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It's funny how Australia's national teams nickname is the Socceroos

    • @isaacthegoat1432
      @isaacthegoat1432 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What a load of bs.

    • @GgTTV828
      @GgTTV828 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@isaacthegoat1432 yes, keep crying.

  • @MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot
    @MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot 6 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Then in Canada, we took a game Americans usually call kickball, but because it's basically baseball and you kick said ball _like in a game we called soccer_ , everywhere I ever saw it played we called it *soccer baseball!*
    Because that's not confusing.

    • @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
      @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Artpholomule Nutt
      Really? Never heard of the term until today, but then again I've only ever visited Ontario.

    • @MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot
      @MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Opiniones de JACC's Opinions I live in Ontario. Ottawa to be exact. Every school I went to growing up (in the public elementary schools) called it that. Wasn't until I saw American tv I found out people called it something else.

    • @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
      @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Artpholomule Nutt
      When were you born? In the 80's or 90's? I mean even in the 1990's the world was pretty connected and the U.S. dominates the media.

    • @charlesgriffin7708
      @charlesgriffin7708 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I live in Toronto, and I called it that when I was in elementary school around 2006-2010, still would call it that today, and my younger brother who's in elementary school right now calls it soccer baseball.

    • @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
      @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Charles Griffin
      That's very interesting that such isolation can still be encountered, I mean the fact that is still exist even to this day is very intriguing to me. Which means even with such a strong cultural hegemony the States have, native Canadian terminology can still exist for things in the same language.

  • @kaits9026
    @kaits9026 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I wrote a paper in college about the history of Soccer/Football and it covered everything that was in this video. I'm happy I'm not the only nerd interested in this topic. You summed this topic quite nicely in under 5 mins. Well done.

    • @nico0826
      @nico0826 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Damn could you send me your paper, i would love to read it ? (I know I’m 4 years late, still hope you see my comment)

    • @Rob-ww6nc
      @Rob-ww6nc 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What about Australia? What do you know?

  • @Belboz99
    @Belboz99 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The "er" suffix is common among Germanic languages, as "er" means "he". So, "Baker" is "he who bakes". Other old-fashioned names like Steiner would be "he who works with stone". And of course, "hamburger" refers to "he who is from Hamburg", and that's why we called them Hamburgers, because some guys from Hamburg created them.
    I almost wonder if the usage by the elites was used to denote someone as being particularly unique in some way. For example, in modern English we say "The Oprah", as a way to signify how she is singularly unique. And now people say "The Donald".

    • @mojojim6458
      @mojojim6458 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dan O'Connell Ivana, his first, Czech wife, started calling him The Donald decades ago. So, I don't think it's just a Germanic language thing.

    • @maxropercalvo6132
      @maxropercalvo6132 ปีที่แล้ว

      FOOTBALL has been called FOOTBALL since it was created in ENGLAND until today 2023. It NEVER changed its name or had another name and it was NEVER EVER called "soccer"
      The terms "soccer" and "rugger" were just NICKNAMES used by a few Englishmen a long time ago to call FOOTBALL and RUGBY and their use was not even popular even as NICKNAMES, these terms were only used as NICKNAMES by a few Englishmen later never again these terms were not even used as NICKNAMES and the few English people who used these terms as NICKNAMES stopped using them
      "soccer" isn't even a word, it's the abbreviation of the word ASSOCIATION, that's why the USA got ridiculed to change the name of its real FOOTBALL association only in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call it like this to the true original and real FOOTBALL the biggest popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD and so they live in their unreal falsified and fantasy world poor stupid people
      The FOOTBALL sport invented in ENGLAND that means BALÓN PIE FOOT PIE BALL BALÓN as its name indicates it is a sport that is played with a BALL and the FEET and is the most popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD long after the idiots of the USA they invented a "sport" that is a cheap copy of rugby and copied the name to the true original and real FOOTBALL, in addition to copying the name to another somewhat illegal sport, they wrongly copied the name because that "sport" that only exists and is consumed in the US is plays with the FOOTBALL HANDS has absolutely nothing, that is, they don't even use to copy names, they even do it wrong and then the shameless US have the audacity to change the name of their real FOOTBALL association only in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call real FOOTBALL "soccer" something that DOESN'T EXIST and only call their fake "sport" "football" insignificant cheap copy of rugby that only ex Is and is consumed in the USA
      The United States Football Federation was founded on April 5, 1913 under the name of the United States Football Association. A year later, it was incorporated into FIFA in 1914. Until 1974 it was renamed to the current name United States Soccer Federation. In the USA the real FOOTBALL was also called by its name FOOTBALL as in the whole WORLD name that they just changed to their real FOOTBALL association in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call real FOOTBALL "soccer" and so they live in their unreal world falsified and fantasy poor stupid people.

  • @kieranfitz
    @kieranfitz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    You left Ireland off the list of English speaking countries that call it soccer.

    • @RuiOliveiraTV
      @RuiOliveiraTV 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Dear god Ireland too? i.i

    • @TomskyB
      @TomskyB 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Please don't say even the Irish call it Soccer.

    • @seanmcmanus4701
      @seanmcmanus4701 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Rui Oliveira We have a different sport we use the name football for GAA

    • @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
      @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Kieran Fitzgerald
      Isn't Patrick from Northern Ireland?

    • @turtlevader
      @turtlevader 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What would Northern Ireland even count as? It’s in the UK but it’s also in Ireland! Sockfoot?

  • @greenturtlgaming2554
    @greenturtlgaming2554 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    English people born after WW2: “That’s not true! That’s impossible!”

  • @franzfanz
    @franzfanz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    In New Zealand soccer is starting a slow decline in usage and football is becoming much more common. A lot of this had to do with our team's incredible run in the 2010 FIFA World Cup where we remained the only country to be undefeated. Yes, even the eventual winners of the tournament, Spain, couldn't match this amazing feat. Also there's been a recent influx of English immigration which might also be a contributing factor.

    • @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
      @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      But, do Kiwis call another sport football? I mean I know you guys mainly as a Rugby nation, but Australia has several "forms" of football and Gridiron Football the other common name of that sport played in North America, so do you guys like to call Rugby "Football"? Because, otherwise why was Soccer more common?

    • @franzfanz
      @franzfanz 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      We tend to call rugby union just rugby and rugby league is rugby. The governing body used to called the New Zealand Rugby Football Union so I assume in the past calling it football was more common than today. This could also explain why we're calling it something different now.

    • @Rob-ww6nc
      @Rob-ww6nc 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That is because New Zealand play's the other English second choice game of Rugby union! Soccer Australia is trying to call itself football but Australia has Australian football which is very different to all the other football codes in the world. Except Irish football Gaelic football. Australian football has the biggest crowds Per population. AFL.

    • @Rob-ww6nc
      @Rob-ww6nc 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinionsagain as an Australian the answer is easy! New Zealand don't have thier own football code. They play Rugby union an English game.
      Australia has a huge football code invented in Australia with huge crowd!
      Next popular game is Englands third choice Rugby league. But Australian football is in every state of S. Australia.. even the two states where league is the most popular! As an example of why it is so popular. On a bitterly cold raining day. Two teams that go back to the 1800s had a crowd of 100.000 people for a normal season match no international no final.. but the football code that draws the biggest crowds for just club football! Melbourne Demon's v Collingwood Magpies 1958. A couple of people short of 100.000!

  • @KuyaBJLaurente
    @KuyaBJLaurente 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    In the Philippines, we are adopting the term "football" in colloquial context. Thanks to some Filipino-European footballers that re-popularized the sport in our country + our Southeast Asian neighbors (like Malaysia and Indonesia) call them football in English anyway.

  • @habilsubarqah
    @habilsubarqah 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Actually, American Football is not Rugby Football but Gridiron Football. They have different rules, size of pitch, shape of ball, shape of goals, and of course costumes.

  • @ravenlord4
    @ravenlord4 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Japan also calls it soccer (サッカー )
    ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/サッカー日本代表

    • @thatbg3357
      @thatbg3357 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      @raven lord no because japanese is a completely different language

    • @workspaceofduc
      @workspaceofduc 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dude. There are lots of Japanese people call it futtoboru which means football

    • @deaundrebondscheeks2
      @deaundrebondscheeks2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thatbg3357 Dude, I saw you on another video shit-talking Americans because we have a different word when referring to your 'Sport' aka Soccer. Lmao. Now you're making excuses for why Japan isn't at fault for calling it 'Soccer' as well. Seems like You just don't like powerful nations and also the fact that not a lot of Americans like your sport. Well, bitch at China because they don't fucking like Soccer as well.

  • @hyosungg_
    @hyosungg_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    UK: ⚽ it's a football
    US: NOO IT'S A SOCCER THIS IS FOOTBALL 🏈
    UK: ⚽ it's a football
    The world: yeah, we know

    • @useruseruser674
      @useruseruser674 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Umm well most of the developped European countries use football to call the sport called football and use a form of association football for the barely sport called soccer

    • @Seba-le7mb
      @Seba-le7mb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@useruseruser674 i'm having a stroke

    • @bowskee
      @bowskee 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@useruseruser674 u gave me a headache

    • @useruseruser674
      @useruseruser674 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bowskee y'know outside of UK being a soccer player is just as valid of a job like instagram comedian, since soccer players have no real athletic capability and outside to the coaching staff and the gm are usually all dumb

    • @bowskee
      @bowskee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@useruseruser674 what u said was completely wrong. Soccer players have insane athleticism (cristiano, adama, mbappe, ibra), some others have amazing skill and talent (messi, neymar, ronaldinho). "Football" requires as much work as any other sport.

  • @ryanmccartney244
    @ryanmccartney244 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Handegg! Oh my God, how funny! You really got me! Now that I have seen the light, I have gone ahead and thrown my coffee maker away and bought a tea pot. Now I can say "football" just like a British person. It's always been my dream to speak just like a British person but I didn't know how. Thank you, my British friends.

    • @Viking_Creation
      @Viking_Creation 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What???

    • @nazeemtrump2820
      @nazeemtrump2820 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Now you need to lose weight to become British.

    • @dinnerboons1504
      @dinnerboons1504 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@nazeemtrump2820 The UK isn’t much better off in weight than America.

    • @plfaproductions
      @plfaproductions 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I actually think is people assuming those complaining about it are British, I'm Brazilian and get annoyed when freedomland people try to impose their inferior sport that they are the only ones who care about as football, it came after real football and doesn't even use feet why the hell would it be the true football, call it anything else but that ain't football and calling it football is objectively wrong

    • @plfaproductions
      @plfaproductions 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@dinnerboons1504it is, Britain isn't good in weight terms but usa is absurd

  • @catief1031
    @catief1031 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That's for the video! I had heard a brief explanation of the name "soccer" back when I was a child (an adult was explaining it to someone else and I overheard), but I could never quite remember all the detail.

  • @alvitorifqirajendra
    @alvitorifqirajendra 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    British : Football
    Spanish : Futbol
    German : Fußball
    Indonesia = Sepakbola (ikr it sounds weird. It means : Sepak= Kick, Bola = Ball. So, it could be translated as Kick ball / Football)

    • @Farhan-mn1fr
      @Farhan-mn1fr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Malaysia: Bola Sepak

    • @Hm_649
      @Hm_649 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      All country different ok?

    • @Hm_649
      @Hm_649 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lingardinho are you dumb clearly saying you two

    • @icarom2512
      @icarom2512 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Portuguese: Futebol

    • @phantomgold3255
      @phantomgold3255 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Shut up

  • @AbedWinger
    @AbedWinger ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's gridiron football. There's no reason we can't bring gridiron back into formal usage.

  • @hoangkimviet8545
    @hoangkimviet8545 6 ปีที่แล้ว +175

    - American football plays by hands.
    - Others of the world: Football by feet.
    So, the inclusion is America is unique
    :-0

    • @zoofan9280
      @zoofan9280 6 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Hoàng Kim Việt American football is just cowards rugby

    • @Alluminati666
      @Alluminati666 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Hoàng Kim Việt that means Americans have less IQ

    • @stargasior
      @stargasior 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Canadian Football and there is also Aussie Rules Football. Both have roots from Rugby Football...

    • @mikespearwood3914
      @mikespearwood3914 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      stargasior Australian Football is it's own game, most closely resembling Gaelic Football, where a hybrid game has been devised where Australia and Ireland compete on a regular basis. It has no affiliation or origins from rugby.

    • @jizzuschrist6252
      @jizzuschrist6252 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      well they also uses pounds, fahrenheit, inches, month/day/year, ounces.. fkn twats

  • @loranddeka
    @loranddeka 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This question has been banging around in my head since my high school Spanish class, thanks for giving me the answer.

  • @anthonylong9067
    @anthonylong9067 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    The awkward moment when someone from the UK confirms the word soccer was invented in the UK and also confirms that other countries call it soccer besides the US.
    Some people just dont understand that

    • @userlol3644
      @userlol3644 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yet 10 teams in the MLS have ‘fc’ in their club names

    • @neereh7800
      @neereh7800 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      User Lol my middle school training shirt had “football club” on it too

    • @userlol3644
      @userlol3644 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nee Reh aha

    • @chidumebiarukwe6436
      @chidumebiarukwe6436 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes and the word has been dropped by everyone else and you continue to use it

    • @anthonylong9067
      @anthonylong9067 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Chidumebi Arukwe not really.

  • @forkyicicle8904
    @forkyicicle8904 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Alright, here's my suggestion. There are tonnes of different codes of football and to insist that only one code can call itself football is absurd. So call every type of football "football" whenever there is no ambiguity. Say for instance an American football player asking his fellow teammate when the next training session is would use "football". When there is ambiguity, such as asking "Which do you prefer, Association football or Gaelic football?" then these shortened names could be used:
    Association football - soccer
    American football - Yankee rules
    Australian football - Aussie rules
    Rugby football - Rugby
    Gaelic football - same
    Canadian football - same
    Winchester football - Winchester
    Harrow football - Harrow
    Eton field football - Eton field
    Eton wall football - Eton wall

    • @frasstvhs6141
      @frasstvhs6141 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Official name football
      world Cup
      Olympiad

    • @forkyicicle8904
      @forkyicicle8904 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Frass Tvhs Wait sorry could you please elaborate? I don't get what you mean.

  • @user-gk3bb4sl4v
    @user-gk3bb4sl4v 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    American Football should just be called Armoured Rugby

  • @CypherSpy
    @CypherSpy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    @1:28 they still do that in a UK town not sure where but i watch a video of them playing

  • @ca_marchant86
    @ca_marchant86 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    In Mexico they call it futbol, in the rest of Spanish speaking countries they call it fútbol (there’s a difference in pronunciation).

    • @ca_marchant86
      @ca_marchant86 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      e # bien por vos campeón

  • @casper6405
    @casper6405 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Everyone in the world: Its Football
    Its Celsius
    Its school
    US: its soccer
    Its fahrenheit
    Its shooting range

  • @rivertrash9862
    @rivertrash9862 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    0:10 Coincidentally that description also fits perfectly with American football. 11 players on each side, questionable chants and the occasional streaker.

  • @blogsanjay1031
    @blogsanjay1031 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "...where the leader of the losing team would be sacrificed" lol and people think we're living in the last days

  • @Goonwithatireiron823
    @Goonwithatireiron823 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The game of football does not use feet to kick the ball, however you are constantly carrying the ball across the field on foot, which originally is how football was played in the US, with no passing, eventually the added passes in the game bc it spread players out more and reduced the risk of injury. But none the less, it is a game where the ball is carried on foot, the name football works. However there are better names that could have worked better maybe.

    • @ОлексійКупранець
      @ОлексійКупранець 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well, the actual football sport is much better for the name football. Because 1: the ball is an actual BALL. 2: you use your feet almost exclusively

  • @MrKenichi22
    @MrKenichi22 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @3:20 From what I know, American Rules Football used the words interchangeably and it is either because the desire to identify with the rich (only hearing Soccer and preferring that) or because the colleges eventually followed Harvards game which became American Football as Harvard preferred Rugby over Soccer and adapted American Football from Rugby.

  • @DailyQuranRecitation1234
    @DailyQuranRecitation1234 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    🇬🇧: Football
    🌍: Football
    🇺🇸: Soccer
    🇦🇺: Soccer
    🇨🇦: Soccer

    • @jorgelopez8486
      @jorgelopez8486 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      🇮🇹 Calcio

    • @joaquingonzalez834
      @joaquingonzalez834 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ireland calls it soccer too, even if its not used that much nowadays from what i gathered

    • @oisinmccarthy8717
      @oisinmccarthy8717 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@joaquingonzalez834 no most irish people still say soccer. Only in Dublin many people say football

    • @proudamerican183
      @proudamerican183 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jorgelopez8486 Interesting history.

    • @Kieran66
      @Kieran66 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@oisinmccarthy8717 more like all of leinster say football, and most of ulster too, which are the two provinces with the highest population.

  • @CamHarrisVlogs
    @CamHarrisVlogs 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    4:18 did anyone else see Hugh Jass

  • @FantasticMrE
    @FantasticMrE 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fun fact for anyone that isn’t into American Football (or American Hand Egg) and/or doesn’t know much about it. The kicking parts of an American Football game are actually statistically the largest teller of who will most likely win the game as kicking the ball during special teams plays (with your foot) largely determines the position and distance in which the opposing team must advance the ball. Also, field goals (which are also kicked with the foot) will frequently determine the outcome of an American Football game due to the fact that they can be used for easy points at long distances and they also give an opportunity to kick the ball to the other team (which is once again, using the foot) to determine the opposing team’s field position. Field goals and kickoffs are both the statistically most important factors for winning an American Football game, both using the foot!

  • @rasapplepipe
    @rasapplepipe 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    No mention of Canadian or Australian Football.

    • @benseac
      @benseac 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Canadian Handegg

    • @deaundrebondscheeks2
      @deaundrebondscheeks2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@benseac There goes a moronic response.

    • @benseac
      @benseac 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@deaundrebondscheeks2 Yep. I hope you enjoyed it.

    • @deaundrebondscheeks2
      @deaundrebondscheeks2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@benseac Nope, I clearly didn't and now you're fucking blocked by me lol now fuck off.

  • @JasonPloeger
    @JasonPloeger 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    You just said that the first version of football (mob) used hands... you call it football because it is a game played on foot (as opposed to on horse). Just as American, Australian, Canadian, Gaelic, and Rugby football are played on foot. See "The Ball is Round" for a good history of the codes of football.

    • @tanyathon7616
      @tanyathon7616 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      the first version used both hands and foot

    • @wazmarwa164
      @wazmarwa164 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tanyathon7616 he def does not know what he had in hus mind

    • @maxropercalvo6132
      @maxropercalvo6132 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      FOOTBALL has been called FOOTBALL since it was created in ENGLAND until today 2023. It NEVER changed its name or had another name and it was NEVER EVER called "soccer"
      The terms "soccer" and "rugger" were just NICKNAMES used by a few Englishmen a long time ago to call FOOTBALL and RUGBY and their use was not even popular even as NICKNAMES, these terms were only used as NICKNAMES by a few Englishmen later never again these terms were not even used as NICKNAMES and the few English people who used these terms as NICKNAMES stopped using them
      "soccer" isn't even a word, it's the abbreviation of the word ASSOCIATION, that's why the USA got ridiculed to change the name of its real FOOTBALL association only in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call it like this to the true original and real FOOTBALL the biggest popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD and so they live in their unreal falsified and fantasy world poor stupid people
      The FOOTBALL sport invented in ENGLAND that means BALÓN PIE FOOT PIE BALL BALÓN as its name indicates it is a sport that is played with a BALL and the FEET and is the most popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD long after the idiots of the USA they invented a "sport" that is a cheap copy of rugby and copied the name to the true original and real FOOTBALL, in addition to copying the name to another somewhat illegal sport, they wrongly copied the name because that "sport" that only exists and is consumed in the US is plays with the FOOTBALL HANDS has absolutely nothing, that is, they don't even use to copy names, they even do it wrong and then the shameless US have the audacity to change the name of their real FOOTBALL association only in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call real FOOTBALL "soccer" something that DOESN'T EXIST and only call their fake "sport" "football" insignificant cheap copy of rugby that only ex Is and is consumed in the USA
      The United States Football Federation was founded on April 5, 1913 under the name of the United States Football Association. A year later, it was incorporated into FIFA in 1914. Until 1974 it was renamed to the current name United States Soccer Federation. In the USA the real FOOTBALL was also called by its name FOOTBALL as in the whole WORLD name that they just changed to their real FOOTBALL association in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call real FOOTBALL "soccer" and so they live in their unreal world falsified and fantasy poor stupid people.

  • @Mannydejesushernandez
    @Mannydejesushernandez ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When I say football I’m referring to “soccer” when I’m talking about the nfl I’m calling it American football

  • @Nick-kz6dg
    @Nick-kz6dg 6 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    The funny thing in Australia, we call it "soccer" and our national team is called the "Socceroos" but the governing body is called "Football Federation Australia".
    Also, unlike America, at least in Aussie rules football you actually kick the ball...

    • @mikespearwood3914
      @mikespearwood3914 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      The name change to "Football Federation Australia" (from "Soccer Australia") was part of an aggressive strategy to lift the standings of the sport in Australia, and try to claim the name "football" in Australian sport. It was also at the time the weak NSL was dismantled to be replaced by the A-League.

    • @AzureKite
      @AzureKite 6 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      In American football you kick the ball too... in fact if your team sucks you kick it a lot.

    • @BrandonjSlippingAway
      @BrandonjSlippingAway 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's not a 'funny thing', it was a very deliberate move to replace the old Soccer Australia and start a process by the FFA soccer figures to officially remove the word out of the sport in Australia. It's a completely top-down orientated model by the FFA, you won't see or hear the word 'soccer' in any of their official releases, broadcasts or affiliated leagues, despite the word being very much a prominent part of Australian vocab.

    • @mikespearwood3914
      @mikespearwood3914 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Azure Kite I think he means in a general sense as part of the game. The only time they kick in American Football is specifically just to kick for goals or to kick for territory when the tackle count has run out, so essentially the same as Rugby League.

    • @BrandonjSlippingAway
      @BrandonjSlippingAway 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Everyone knows the ball is kicked in American football, the point is that it's kicked far, far less than basically every sport called football.

  • @mexicancactus624
    @mexicancactus624 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Even in Greek the sport is called is ποδό-(σφαιρο) pronunciation=podósfairo
    ποδό=(foot) σφαιρο=(ball)

  • @apophisstr6719
    @apophisstr6719 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Additional info: Football in Chinese is 足球, 足 is foot, and 球 is ball. While strangely, in Japanese, they commonly use the word サッカー (sakka-), which is the katakana version of soccer.

    • @user-yf1uo5qw2v
      @user-yf1uo5qw2v 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Soccer/Football in Korean 축구 Chookgu
      That means like Soccer than Football.

  • @1notredamefightingirishfan12
    @1notredamefightingirishfan12 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It's funny how Europeans get so triggered when people call it soccer when the British invented it

    • @bakedbeans5494
      @bakedbeans5494 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The British gained logic, America didn't.

    • @1notredamefightingirishfan12
      @1notredamefightingirishfan12 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@bakedbeans5494 America gets an unpredictable, constant thrilling moments sport, British doesn't

    • @thomsboys77
      @thomsboys77 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@1notredamefightingirishfan12No one cares about American sport apart from the Yanks

    • @1notredamefightingirishfan12
      @1notredamefightingirishfan12 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thomsboys77 no one here cares about soccer

    • @plfaproductions
      @plfaproductions 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I actually think is people assuming those complaining about it are British, I'm Brazilian and get annoyed when freedomland people try to impose their inferior sport that they are the only ones who care about as football, it came after real football and doesn't even use feet why the hell would it be the true football, call it anything else but that ain't football and calling it football is objectively wrong

  • @jayg1438
    @jayg1438 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Some fun theories I have heard and that have been presented by numerous game historians.
    Football in all of it's forms was not named as such because it was a game where the ball was kicked with the feet. It belied class distinctions going back to feudalism. European armies were divided by soldiers fighting on Horse or those fighting on Foot. Horse being comprised of the nobility and elite, foot being comprised of the peasants and conscripts. Football was a catch all for the games the lower classes played with a ball by players on foot. Horse sports like Polo and Steeple were played by the elites.
    If the name of the game came from kicking the ball with the foot, why not just call it kickball? Forms of 'football' where the ball was advanced with the hands and or feet were popular by the 19th century in colleges like Rugby.
    By the 1800s football was most often played by colleges in the UK. Games would be played by the rules preferred by the host college. Colleges like Eton preferred advancing the ball by kicking it. Rugby preferred rules where the ball is advanced using the hands. Eton rules football would become known as Association Football and Rugby style rules as Rugby Football.
    This is where I have heard derivations on the birth of 'Soccer' as a name. Scores were posted in newspapers where the amount of print cost money, so abbreviations were used. Rubgy Football was shortened to Rugby or RUG. This left a conundrum for Association Football. No self respecting Victorian would use the word ASS in a newspaper, or discuss ASS scores! My word! So the name was shortened to SOC. Then as is common the ER was added and it became known as Soccer.

    • @johnbauer7234
      @johnbauer7234 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      soccer sounds ugly, only the yankees call it that, in the rest of the world it is football

    • @thevannmann
      @thevannmann ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnbauer7234 Did you not watch the video, idiot?

    • @AsiaMinor12
      @AsiaMinor12 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@johnbauer7234 if you ignore the 200 million other people on the planet that call it soccer lol.

    • @johnbauer7234
      @johnbauer7234 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AsiaMinor12 Yes, and you are forgetting about South America, Central America, Mexico, Europe, Africa, Oceania and Asia, China, Korea. all over the world, removing the USA, they call Football the king of sports.

    • @johnbauer7234
      @johnbauer7234 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AsiaMinor12 those 200 million that you say against the rest of the world are nothing, wee lad🇬🇧

  • @doaa7941
    @doaa7941 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    4:04 Borrowing the Rugby part of the name wouldn't sound right. It was Rugby's version of football that America borrowed so they called it American football. If it was called American Rugby and then Canada borrowed this sport from America and changed it a bit would call it Canadian American by that logic.

  • @Rakonax
    @Rakonax 6 ปีที่แล้ว +130

    Handegg!

    • @kosukemiura1226
      @kosukemiura1226 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      XIDNAF

    • @admiralaokiji7889
      @admiralaokiji7889 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Handegg is not as catchy as football.

    • @Rakonax
      @Rakonax 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      but it isn't used for an other sport already

    • @admiralaokiji7889
      @admiralaokiji7889 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Read This a sports name doesnt have to directly describe what they do. If it did cricket would be a really weird sport involving insects.

    • @bobbyhill3447
      @bobbyhill3447 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Remember Americans call their shitty sport povertyball

  • @boutdacheck6601
    @boutdacheck6601 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Americans call it fooball but they play it with their hands

    • @fxrnweh-hd5dq
      @fxrnweh-hd5dq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah
      It makes no sense lol

    • @S-1_24-25
      @S-1_24-25 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fxrnweh-hd5dq handegg is suitable.

    • @S-1_24-25
      @S-1_24-25 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      They should just call it *handegg*

  • @RyanControl
    @RyanControl 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The question to be answered is not why Americans and the British have a different preferred term for the game being played in the World Cup, but why so many Brits seem to get so rabid about the topic whenever it comes up online. It is as if they are unwilling to accept that fact that there are different dialects in the word.

  • @fortunecookie5459
    @fortunecookie5459 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    2:02 Americans still don't get that xD

    • @journeythroughtherails5294
      @journeythroughtherails5294 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Stereotypes-

    • @xanayanir7471
      @xanayanir7471 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol true 😂😂💯🏆

    • @G_Diddler
      @G_Diddler 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Salty Americans

    • @joaquingonzalez834
      @joaquingonzalez834 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      and i still got it as an american...

    • @philmccracken179
      @philmccracken179 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      But you don’t only use your foot. You use your knee chest and head sometimes. It actually should be called nohandsball

  • @auradone8127
    @auradone8127 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Football=Like
    Soccer=Comment

    • @sans.2709
      @sans.2709 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Soccer is Football ya stupid idiot! You can go f*** your Handegg.

  • @Regular_Decorated_Emergency
    @Regular_Decorated_Emergency 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Tell that to Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Comoros, India (Telugu and Karnataka), Singapore, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, North Africa, Japan, and Korea.

    • @plfaproductions
      @plfaproductions 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Only Canada and Australia of that list use soccer seriously, football is more common in most of those SPECIALLY JAPAN (I know 9 Japanese imigrants and they confirm that they never use soccer) and in Canada and Australia they don't use football to American fake football either because they got their own knock-offs, just accept you guys can't steal the name of the most popular sport in the world and move on

  • @Gallalad1
    @Gallalad1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The soccer rule also applies to Ireland

    • @maxropercalvo6132
      @maxropercalvo6132 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      FOOTBALL has been called FOOTBALL since it was created in ENGLAND until today 2023. It NEVER changed its name or had another name and it was NEVER EVER called "soccer"
      The terms "soccer" and "rugger" were just NICKNAMES used by a few Englishmen a long time ago to call FOOTBALL and RUGBY and their use was not even popular even as NICKNAMES, these terms were only used as NICKNAMES by a few Englishmen later never again these terms were not even used as NICKNAMES and the few English people who used these terms as NICKNAMES stopped using them
      "soccer" isn't even a word, it's the abbreviation of the word ASSOCIATION, that's why the USA got ridiculed to change the name of its real FOOTBALL association only in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call it like this to the true original and real FOOTBALL the biggest popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD and so they live in their unreal falsified and fantasy world poor stupid people
      The FOOTBALL sport invented in ENGLAND that means BALÓN PIE FOOT PIE BALL BALÓN as its name indicates it is a sport that is played with a BALL and the FEET and is the most popular sport practiced and loved in the WORLD long after the idiots of the USA they invented a "sport" that is a cheap copy of rugby and copied the name to the true original and real FOOTBALL, in addition to copying the name to another somewhat illegal sport, they wrongly copied the name because that "sport" that only exists and is consumed in the US is plays with the FOOTBALL HANDS has absolutely nothing, that is, they don't even use to copy names, they even do it wrong and then the shameless US have the audacity to change the name of their real FOOTBALL association only in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call real FOOTBALL "soccer" something that DOESN'T EXIST and only call their fake "sport" "football" insignificant cheap copy of rugby that only ex Is and is consumed in the USA
      The United States Football Federation was founded on April 5, 1913 under the name of the United States Football Association. A year later, it was incorporated into FIFA in 1914. Until 1974 it was renamed to the current name United States Soccer Federation. In the USA the real FOOTBALL was also called by its name FOOTBALL as in the whole WORLD name that they just changed to their real FOOTBALL association in the YEAR 1974 and currently they are the ONLY idiots in the WORLD who call real FOOTBALL "soccer" and so they live in their unreal world falsified and fantasy poor stupid people.

  • @TheCsel
    @TheCsel 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Well football is also played ‘on foot’ as opposed to horseback sports like polo

  • @blueangelsfan4072
    @blueangelsfan4072 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for this.

  • @abrokatec
    @abrokatec 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Mexico’s pronunciation sounds the same it’s just spelled different!

    • @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
      @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Andrea Brokate
      We transliterated it. The same was done with _béisbol._ Also is the same in all Spanish-speaking countries which I'm not sure why he didn't say that.😑

    • @fordtransit7948
      @fordtransit7948 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      En México 🇲🇽 lo pronunciamos sin el acento en la u porque se escucha sudamericano.

  • @RockismyAir
    @RockismyAir 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Jalkapallo in Finnish.
    Sidenote: I hate it.

    • @deaundrebondscheeks2
      @deaundrebondscheeks2 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I like it, why not be unique. We call it Soccer, my father calls it Calcio, you call it Jalkapallo.

  • @kgm4556
    @kgm4556 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That’s funny the “ER” thing in Upoer Class England.
    In Canada, that is extremely common to give nicknames like that.

  • @officerishi6789
    @officerishi6789 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    3:13 "a sucker"

  • @JoeYabukii
    @JoeYabukii 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    where the fuck was usa when football created

    • @philmccracken179
      @philmccracken179 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Soccer created 1863. American football created 1869. The USA was a complete country when kickball started

    • @plfaproductions
      @plfaproductions 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@philmccracken179actually no, true football ⚽️ was around sinse the middle ages

    • @philmccracken179
      @philmccracken179 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@plfaproductions yes I know, back in Africa they would kick the heads around of fellow Africans they beheaded. Sure if you wanna count that then fine

  • @607
    @607 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks!

  • @username65585
    @username65585 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Football is called football because it is played *on* foot. That is opposed to horse back sports like polo. Shame there was no mention of Aussie Rules Football, the best football.

  • @AussieTVMusic
    @AussieTVMusic 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    AFL is Football too

    • @zulphur
      @zulphur 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      AussieTV aussie rules 😊

    • @arrgghh1555
      @arrgghh1555 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      AFL is not rugby like. Also hands are not used instead of feet, they are uses as well as feet. Kicking is the most used and most effective form of moving the ball and AFL is the only form of football where the primary method of scoring must be kicked.

    • @arrgghh1555
      @arrgghh1555 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      You are correct AFL is a league, but there is no singular sport just named 'football'. AFL is so much easier to say then Australian rules football, and everyone knows what you're talking about. Same reason we say soccer (or football) and not Association football.

    • @stephendraffin5775
      @stephendraffin5775 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Arrgghh No, it would be like calling the game Premier League or First Division I.e. The name of the competition

    • @anthonyf3680
      @anthonyf3680 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      AussieTV afl is so gayyyyyyy

  • @hdrevolution123
    @hdrevolution123 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing video, nice one!!

  • @Frahamen
    @Frahamen 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    OK. so let's make it even and call American Football "Muccer" now.

    • @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
      @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      *+*

    • @workspaceofduc
      @workspaceofduc 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think we should call it Ametican Soccer because it's played by suckers

    • @wazmarwa164
      @wazmarwa164 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@workspaceofduc Succerrs=Sucking And being pervs on Games

  • @bryceciufo9370
    @bryceciufo9370 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It’s called soccer not football

  • @IloveHamberger
    @IloveHamberger 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why does everyone say they almost never use the legs? Doesnt every player stand and run, while every player who can't is taken off of the field? Regardless of how much the ball is kicked you still need your legs to run around to play

  • @kazenriq
    @kazenriq 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Thought it had something to do with sorcerers...

  • @bars3543
    @bars3543 6 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    just call the "american football" rugby

    • @CallanKilderry
      @CallanKilderry 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      That's offensive to Rugby

    • @ses694
      @ses694 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      no Its too diferent

    • @ses694
      @ses694 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      no Should call it "hand egg"

    • @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions
      @OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The other common name for the sport is gridiron football.

    • @DAK4Blizzard
      @DAK4Blizzard 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I have 4 suggestions that I think sound less silly than hand egg:
      1. Downball -- There are 4 downs and a touchdown
      2. Tackleball -- Tackles play a key role in game play (and 2 offensive positions are named tackle)
      3. Scrimmageball -- Many of the positions are named "back" (quarterback, halfback, fullback, linebacker) due to their respect to the line of scrimmage
      4. Backball -- For the same reason as Scrimmageball
      Touchball technically works (touchdown and touchback), but from that perspective I think Tackleball sounds better. Yes, the ball is shaped like an egg, but it is a ball nonetheless, and eggs aren't an official shape. The official shape is vesica piscis, with the simpler Italian name of mandorla (meaning almond). So actually, it could be called hand almond.

  • @quantumintellect7261
    @quantumintellect7261 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I live in New Zealand, one of the countries you mentioned, and majority of people call the sport football and call people who say otherwise Americans

    • @laurencefraser
      @laurencefraser 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mythic IQ maybe these days. When I was a kid (20 years back now) if you said "football" you'd just get blank looks from most people, and requests for clarification from the rest, because Nothing was called football in common usage (where I lived, at least) There was soccer, rugby (assume union unless league is specified), touch (rugby variant), and that weird american sport... Which was specifically "American football" if you only saw it in american media, or gridiron if you were a bit more knowledgeable in the random trivia department. Sometimes Rugby, mostly local club games, was "footie". I'm fairly sure the national governing body for soccer/football didn't even include the word football in its name, given that I was told by people actually involved in the sport that the change in common use from soccer to football came about after said body changed its name, removing the word soccer and using football instead.

  • @pestilenceplague4765
    @pestilenceplague4765 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think that most outsiders don't understand American football, and that seems great to me. It is very American, and we love it no matter what the hell the rest of the world thinks.

  • @rishibehal5
    @rishibehal5 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Do origin of Hungary

    • @abrokatec
      @abrokatec 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s because of the Huns

    • @mikespearwood3914
      @mikespearwood3914 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Apparently that's a coincidence.

  • @JustinThomas7
    @JustinThomas7 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In Australia, football could be one of four sports - Association Football, Rugby Union, Rugby League or Australian Rules Football. To avoid ambiguity, these are usually called A League or Soccer, Rugby or Union, League or NRL & Aussie Rules or AFL. If the term is used, you're also more likely to hear Footy rather than Football. A League encourage the use of "Football" to describe the sport, to the point where you usually get corrected if you call it soccer to a fan. It's good to know soccer is the high-brow name for the sport!

  • @theJellyjoker
    @theJellyjoker 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    American rules Rugby.

  • @stratospheric37
    @stratospheric37 6 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    futa ball

    • @kvgm
      @kvgm 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Stratospheric OwO What's this?

    • @stratospheric37
      @stratospheric37 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      *SHALL YOU BE BLESSED FROM THIS COMMENT FOR YEARS TO COME*
      (google futa)

    • @internetexplorerchan2697
      @internetexplorerchan2697 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cursed.

  • @that_one_guy.4140
    @that_one_guy.4140 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Soccer, more like succer! *laughs in british *

  • @blsi4037
    @blsi4037 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The rest of the world: Ha! Americans have no culture!
    America: We have American Football
    The rest of the world: NO NO NO.

    • @deaundrebondscheeks2
      @deaundrebondscheeks2 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Was that supposed to be a joke? Because I don't get what's funny?

    • @user-fz3ip3ke8p
      @user-fz3ip3ke8p 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@deaundrebondscheeks2 because you are american

    • @deaundrebondscheeks2
      @deaundrebondscheeks2 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nope, Because it wasn't funny.

    • @user-fz3ip3ke8p
      @user-fz3ip3ke8p 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@deaundrebondscheeks2 and you arent black. You are a watered down wanna be black. Literally all of africa hates your guts

    • @TheRedDeathYT
      @TheRedDeathYT 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is this another way of saying fuck you?

  • @nathanoliver9237
    @nathanoliver9237 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    It’s called football because it a sport where you don’t use a horse like polo you’re on foot

    • @Mill_Jr
      @Mill_Jr 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nathan Oliver So Basketball, Baseball, Volleyball, and many other sports are supposed to be called football too, they're also played on foot. This logic doesn't make sense

    • @nathanoliver9237
      @nathanoliver9237 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      A Thousand TON it also would be far back in time to where the noblity would do most of the sporting and would often do it from horseback

    • @BowToWard86
      @BowToWard86 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      A Thousand TON
      They do not have to be called football but if they were it would not be a problem. There is nothing wrong with "basket football" for a name.
      The original football game let you use your hands and even carry and throw the ball. Remember that.

    • @wazmarwa164
      @wazmarwa164 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Mill_Jr How is BasketBall Played on Foot That Is Very Wrong Of you

    • @ОлексійКупранець
      @ОлексійКупранець 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@wazmarwa164 what kind of basketball are you playing where you dont walk or run?

  • @vtron9832
    @vtron9832 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    In the greater Antilles, the sport played by the Tainos was called Batu, the ball was made from hardened tree sap, and the rules were to hit the ball and keep it in the air with anything but your hands

  • @killercaos123
    @killercaos123 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Can I just say:
    USA BEAT SCOTLAND IN RUGBY RECENTLY!!!!!!

    • @TheRedDeathYT
      @TheRedDeathYT 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wat

    • @michaelmikeykellymikeydama5405
      @michaelmikeykellymikeydama5405 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Scotland didn't field a great side and the US only just won at home. Play it in Scotland with Scotland's best side and I see the Scots winning by about 60 points.

    • @chelno5880
      @chelno5880 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Who cares