thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
it was called soccer before it was called football in England
you will never get Americans to not call the ball a football and a soccer ball
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
it was called soccer before it was called football in England
you will never get Americans to not call the ball a football and a soccer ball
Jyek@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
That’s not true… Soccer is what some of the english called it and that was an abbreviation of association football. It has always been football and for a short time in one place it was soccer in england and then it was football again everywhere. It came to the US as soccer and never changed. But it was always football.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
dude, just look it up
it’s fact. the upper class didn’t want to play soccer because the lower class were playing it so they called it football
mj_marathon@programming.dev 4 hours ago
You wanna cite your source? This I can’t find anything to support your claim.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
britannica.com/…/why-do-some-people-call-football…
britannica.com/…/why-do-some-people-call-football…