ilves: You know what's ironic? The word soccer was originally coined by British royalty. Back in the day any game played not on horseback was called football. As the game became more popular with the 'lower classes' it began to be called football more than soccer. The US just kept the original name, British people changed it to football, so calling it the 'real' football is actually inaccurate.
KavazovAngel: Girls dressed in some protection crap is hardly called football. Keep your trolling away from this thread.
Anyway, now with Mourinho, we will kick Barca's ass. :p
I wasn't trolling, I was stating what I remembered from history. I think people who get angry and caught up over what 'real' football is are dumb. Who cares if they're both called football?
Orryyrro: Soccer was a slang term derived from the name "association football", association football as a term derived to differentiate football from "rugby football", so no, soccer wasn't the original name however both American football and "real" association football fall under the definition of football which is a team game played on foot with the attempt to score points by bring a ball to the opponents side of the field in some manner or another.
There is that, although there has been some research that it might also derive from the word to 'sock' something even earlier than the 1800s, back when a sock referred to '‘light shoe’ more than a sock that it does today, which just essentially meant to kick something with a shoe. But no real proof, I just think its interesting where the word came from.
