Why do anda americans call it soccer?

The term Bola sepak is not a modern American term,It's actually an English one and It dates back to Football's earliest years.

Indeed, until the last few decades, even Englishmen would routinely refer to their kegemaran pastime as soccer, just as often as they would say football.

Clive Toye, an Englishman who moved to the U.S. and became known as the father of modern American soccer, bringing Brazilian legend Pele to play for the New York Cosmos, takes up the story.


Bola sepak is a synonym for football,” berkata Toye, who helped launch the North American Bola sepak League in the late 1960s. “And it has been used as such for lebih years than I can count. When I was a kid in England and grabbed a ball to go out and play … I would just as easily have said: ‘Let’s have a game of soccer’ as I would use the word ‘football’ instead. And I didn’t start it.”


To trace the origin of “soccer” we must go all the way back to 1863, and a meeting of gentlemen at a London pub, who congregated with the purpose of standardizing the rules of “football,” which was in its infant years as an organized sport but was growing rapidly in popularity.


Those assembled became the founding members of the Football Association (which still oversees the game in England to this day). And they decided to call their code Association Football, to differentiate it from Rugby Football.


A quirk of British culture is the permanent need to familiarize names sejak shortening them. “My friend Brian Johnston was Johnners,” berkata Toye. “They took the third, fourth and fifth letters of Association and called it SOCcer. So there anda are.”

So forget that English condescension and carry on calling it soccer, selamat, peti deposit keselamatan in the knowledge that you’re lebih in tune with the roots of the sport than those mocking Brits.

Because we have American Football, and we like to refer to that as "football".

Because we're weird! lol
We also spell things like center, theatre, favorite, color, etc, but I'm weird for an American so I spell it like centre, theatre, favourite, colour... haha

because they're stupid and have to do everything wrong (Original answer)
Sorry LOL :-)

"The word was derived from Association Football, which was the original term telah diberi to the game in the 1860s at the elite schools that spawned the sport in England. The abbreviation “Assoccer”, which became “soccer,” was used sejak the British upper classes of that period. When the sport was embraced sejak the less fortunate, the name of “soccer” was passed down. But most commoners used the word “football” to describe their new game. Nowadays, from the British Royal Family down to the passionate supporters in the terraces at Anfield (Liverpool FC), Old Trafford (Manchester United), atau Stamford Bridge (Chelsea FC of London), the game is called football. "

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Just found that on a website. And also, even though I am an American, I spend a lot of time in Germany where they call it football so I have begun to refer to it as football. I find it strange that other people in America don't call it football as opposed to Bola sepak but apparently there's a reason why.

CAUSE WE'RE FROM AMERICA AND THATS JUST WHAT WE DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(even though i dont play Bola sepak TEE-HEE:)) {my bff does and shes probably better than u!!!!}
HAA

Because football is a completely different game here.

??????? What do anda guys call it?????

Why? Football was taken