President Trump said, during Iowa victory rally, Barron prefers playing soccer. Soccer?
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Yep, that's the proper name for 'football'. Played pretty much everywhere in the World.
The proper name is actually "association football".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA
I was a referee in my teen years here in the US.
"Soccer" is actually a slang name that the US adopted from England because we already have "football", sometimes called "gridiron football" in order to distinguish it for "football" used elsewhere in the world.
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone/why.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridiron_football
You're quite right fren, I'm talking crap.
FOOTBALL was born in England and I support one of the oldest clubs in the country (Aston Villa). It will always be 'football' to me, I don't care what anyone else calls it.
Also called American Football, also played in Japan. There is also the Canadian variant which includes a wider and longer field.
I hear ya. It's just that here in America we don't call it "American Football" or "North American Football". We just call it football. I occasionally hear them calling it "gridiron football" on TV though in NFL broadcasts.