To make sure it was not confused with other forms of football played at the time, notably rugby football, nowadays known simply as rugby , which is also played mostly with hands. In the late 19th century, British students often used to shorten names and words, and so they set to work on Association football. It was first recorded in as socca and then socker before finding its current form in With American football already popular in North America and being popularly known as football , Association football needed a new name to distinguish it in the United States, so it was called soccer.
While that word is still frequently used in the US, it is only very rarely used in the United Kingdom, where you'll often even hear it referred to as the Beautiful Game , a name popularised thanks to Brazilian legend Pele.
It's also common to come across the Portuguese translation of that, O Jogo Bonito , because of the impact five-time world champions Brazil have had on the game, as well commercials from sportswear companies. In football, a team has 11 offensive players and 11 defensive players. They do not play together.
In futbol, some players are responsible for both offense and defense. There are many ways to score in football. The two most common ways are the field goal and the touchdown. A field goal is scored by kicking the ball through two metal poles located at the end of the field. It is worth three points. A touchdown is most common.
A touchdown is worth six points, and a team can gain another by kicking the ball through the metal poles from a short distance. America and Canada are currently the only countries with professional football leagues. So in reality which it harder to play, soccer of course, but football is not a worldwide sport. It is mainly played in America, if anywhere else at all.
Meanwhile soccer or futbol is played around the world, and any soccer player in America who wants to be a great player goes to another country like Spain or England. So its popularity makes it a favorite for more people no matter your opinion on the sport.
It might not be because they like it more, it might be because American Football isn't played there. We as Americans love football so much that our colleges play it as well as pro teams. If America's Football were played in more than just America, imagine the more and more fans it would have, it would be just as good as soccer in my opinion, I mean the next great receivers, halfbacks, D-backs, QBs, Kickers, could be in soccer instead of football. After basketball was invented and added to the Olympics America dominated especially when pro players were in it, but now more countries have gotten into playing and have proven that they can compete.
I believe it could happen with American Football. If more countries played it, we could have better competition, more leagues instead of just the NFL, like soccer does.
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