It is the most popular sport in the world and yet there is a debate on what it should actually be called.
Is it football or football?
US President Donald Trump captured the subject Club in World Cup final Last Sunday in New Jersey. He jokingly stated that he can pass an executive order to bring the United States to the rest of the world and ensure that from now on Americans it is referred to as football.
“I think I could do that,” he said with a smile during an interview with host broadcaster Dzan.
It was a mild comment, but at a time when America is playing Rapid important role in football The question of this question is why American calls it by a different name, by which it is most known, has been re -raised.
“They call it football, we call it football. I am not sure that the change can be done very easily,” Trump said.
Football increases in the US and hence it has an impact on the game. It is co-consulting the men’s World Cup with Canada and Mexico next year-the third year in a line, it stages a major tournament after the 2024 Copa America and this summer club World Cup.
Other factors are keeping football more often in American consciousness – and perhaps they would call “football” more common in a hard game scenario.
One of the greatest players of all time plays for Lionel Messi, MLS Team Inter Miami; The popularity of the Premier League and the Champions League is booming; And the documentary series “Welcome to Vraxham”, a lower-level welcoming club co-owned by Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McCleni, has attracted the new eyeball.
Do not blame Americans for calling it football
Despite the “soccer”, the US is widely associated, it is commonly accepted that the term was actually coined in Britain, perhaps even in the 1880s.
It is not known when the exact date was used, but it is believed that the “soccer” was taken from “Association Football”, which was the first official name of the game.
Charity English Heritage says that the surname was first used by the students at the prestigious Harrow School to separate the new association game from their old chase, known as the ‘foot “. ,
Many versions of football began to flourish, often involving handling more balls than kicking it. An example is dating back in the 1600s and is still played in England today Royal listeningRugby is another example.
The English Football Association was created in 1863 and attracted the coded rules for related football to separate it from other versions played elsewhere in the UK and from there, the football as we know it was born.
A professor of sports management at Michigan University, Dr. Stephen Szimanski wrote the book “It’s Football, Not Soccer (Vice)” and discovered the origin of the name. In a lecture by the American University of Berut in 2019, he said that football was “very clearly a word of English/British origin.”
“And keep in mind that the name ‘Association Football’ does not actually appear until the 1870s,” he said, “So it actually appears to be very early in the history of the game and the word ‘football’ has been used repeatedly as it was coined at the end of the 19th century.”
Football was commonly used in the UK
“Socker” is not a commonly used word in Britain these days, but it is not always.
It was a popular Saturday morning television show, titled “Soccer AM”, which ran on the Premier League host broadcaster Sky Sports from 1994 to 2023.
England’s great and 1966 World Cup winner Bobby Charlton ran popular schools for decades, titled “Bobby Charlton Football School.”
And Matt Busby – the prestigious manager of Manchester United who won the 1968 European Cup – was the title of his autobiography, which was published in 1974, “Soccer at the top, my life in football.”
That book title shows that “football” and “football” were interchangeable in British culture at that time.
Perhaps the word ‘soccer’ is not a real problem
Szymanski suggested that some people are with “saucer”, the word is not at all. Rather that it is especially used in America.
“This happens when Americans use the term that we find as a crisis and scary, and one of the most popular ideas who throw over it, say that American football is not really football,” he said in his lecture.
He argued that given the huge popularity of NFL in the US, it makes the right understanding to differentiate between its version of football and football.
Only Americans are not called football
The use of the term “soccer” is slightly more confused in other countries.
Australia, which both have their own Australian rules football along with the rugby code, usually use the word and its national men’s team is known as Saxeros. It is a football federation, however, called football Australia.
This is a similar situation in Ireland where gelic football is popular. The term “football” is used, but the national football team is still ruled by a body called the Football Association of Ireland.
The US, such as Canada, simply calls it football, which clearly distinguishes it from NFL and Canadian Football League.
Associated Press Stayelbuk says that football is a favorite word in America, but notes “sports around the world are called football.”
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