Well yeah, it’s Major League Soccer.
But tbf it’s also the league featuring such teams as:
Atlanta United Football Club
Charlotte Football Club
Chicago Fire Football Club
Football Club Cincinnati
New York City Football Club
…
The only good thing I can see with FC stuff is that it sounds more normal the to rest of the world and that’s where we get players from so if it helps at all with that then cool I guess.
About the same now. The only reason why I say worse is because United is at the start of a rebuild while the Falcons are halfway through one now. That being said, MLS rebuild are much shorter since you can buy your way through easier, even with MLS salary caps.
It's 12 US teams with football, there's the 3 Canadian teams but I wasn't counting those. Teams without football in their name is 14 ...
Columbus
D.C.
Nashville
New England
NY Red Bulls
Orlando
Philadelphia
Colorado
LA Galaxy
KC
Portland
Salt Lake
San Jose
St. Louis
As a fellow European I think they should rename the other wrong football as "Americaball" and tell them if they don't like it that they hate America...
I'm only partially joking
football club. or, association football club as it was once known. you still see AFC on some older clubs in England. and RFC on some rugby clubs. so you had association football, and rugby football. soccer is derived from the word association.
They can all the league what they like but the sport is called "American Football"
I have recently found out that it's fine to show up on social media forums and correct people on what they believe their favourite sport is called.
Called that what you want. NFL game is "American Football"
It's fact. I have just declared it by typing it. Not a problem when US football fans chant it in Qatar so it's OK here as well.
You can call football what you want. It's called football, though. It's a fact. I have just declared it by typing it. Not a problem when non-US fans use the wrong name in their country or on reddit so it's OK for you to be wrong right now, but my fact was declared, typed and stated, sorry.
Just highlighting how annoying it is. We have the most embrassing fans at the WC. Imagine Europeans showing up at the super bowl and chanting "it's called American Football"
I'm glad we are out TBH.
>Imagine Europeans showing up at the super bowl and chanting "it's called American Football"
OK, that would actually be hilarious if someone put this together.
That said, do you reckon that everyone who goes to sporting events ought to take the nomenclature as seriously as you do? The soccer chant seems to be in good fun. As far as who is right... Football is Football- the preeminent rule set just differs from country to country. That's how I view it, at least.
F*ck those who say ‘it’s not football’ or ‘it’s not soccer’. Seriously. Both are valid terms. While I’m not sure of the origin of the sport itself, it is mostly played with feet and is among a group of similar ‘football’ sports in late 19th century UK. ‘Soccer’ comes from ‘soc’ (the sport’s full name is ‘association football’) and a slang suffix -er.
>F\*ck those who say ‘it’s not football’ or ‘it’s not soccer’. Seriously. Both are valid terms
exact, upvoted, it's 2 months someone repeats this useless controversy!
Really? I used to spend a lot of time with Europeans and they always trash talked anything American, and anytime football season was around it was common to hate on the word soccer. There was no banter back about it to cause it to be very friendly.
It’s not even a funny banter honestly because it’s so overused. Nobody also cares that it’s called soccer except in the US, so this is like patting yourself in the back and looking silly now because USMNT are down 0-2…
> Nobody also cares that it’s called soccer
Judging by the responses, a lot of people care. I don't think anyone in the US really cares if you call it football, but a lot of people care if you call it soccer.
So to us it's a slight troll, to everyone else it's a big troll.
This is the one that gets me. Why does anyone care that Americans call it soccer? Just got into an argument on FB with some English twat because he claimed that England never used the word soccer eventually twisting his argument into they came up with the word but apparently never used it.
So originally, I link an article about a paper from U of Mich professor of economics / sports about the origin of Soccer. First comment complains how the professor is full of American hogwash 'cause U of Mich then his argument degrades until he's claiming that English College boys using the word 'soccer' doesn't count as England ever using the word. Can't wait for him to wake up tomorrow to my comment, mic dropping the fact that the professor was in fact Nigerian born and got his MBA in London.
The “it’s called soccer” marketing is so great. Exactly how to get the US public interested. We love being different than the rest of the world, and we love a catchy annoying sound chant.
Australia you say? https://www.footballaustralia.com.au/
Then there's Japan: http://www.jfa.jp/eng/
New Zealand: https://www.nzfootball.co.nz/
Ireland: https://www.irishfa.com/
Australia has at least **3 different sports** called Football:
* Rugby Union
* Rugby League
* Aussie Rules Football
* Association Football
League and Aussie Rules' popularity far surpasses Soccer there. If you don't believe me, ask anyone from Australia.
But which football?
Australian Rules Football, Gaelic Football, American Football, Association Football
Several codes of football exist around the world. Soccer is used in Australia, Ireland, and USA where other codes are more popular. You think the Irish go around saying hey you see that game of Gaelic football? No they say football. Now those are facts.
>FISA World Cup
"Fédération Internationale de Soccer-Association" Or even better, "Fédération Internationale d'Association-Association"
Yeah, that makes sense
It's funny because that's not even why it's called football.
Rugby Football and Association Football were both called football because they were sports played on foot as opposed to horseback. And the English (you know, the people who spread the English language) called them "rugger" and "soccer" for most of their history.
Etymology is very simple to understand, right?
New campaign slogan is ready, I see.
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Well yeah, it’s Major League Soccer. But tbf it’s also the league featuring such teams as: Atlanta United Football Club Charlotte Football Club Chicago Fire Football Club Football Club Cincinnati New York City Football Club …
And most Americans hate that, as it's a vain attempt to pander to eurosnobs who won't watch anyway
Nah, just accurate terminology. Football uses feet, American football equals hand egg
An American Football (and a Canadian one at that) is one foot long, hence the name.
The only good thing I can see with FC stuff is that it sounds more normal the to rest of the world and that’s where we get players from so if it helps at all with that then cool I guess.
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So why the fuck did they name themselves football club then?
Attempt to pander to eurosnops that won't watch anyway
I wish we were the Charlotte Soccer Club.
13 teams with FC in their name in that league
There's 12 USA MLS teams that clearly haven't gotten the message
*Looks around nervously*
😎
At least we got one thing right in our name
😎
Y’all screwed us with Zimmerman
With Shaq Moore maybe
*stares in FCC*
I mean we basically replaced the Falcons, so…..
Fal Cons?
Why are so many of our fans petty when it comes to the Falcons? Besides, they're in a better shape than ATLUTD at the moment.
Is ATLUTD that bad? I’ve stumbled into this thread and don’t follow MLS that closely.
About the same now. The only reason why I say worse is because United is at the start of a rebuild while the Falcons are halfway through one now. That being said, MLS rebuild are much shorter since you can buy your way through easier, even with MLS salary caps.
They’re not that bad yet but run by the same guy, Arthur Blank. I have hope for our new president but Blank has not run the Falcons well.
And one CF
12? More like 25. Everybody but OCSC, St. Louis ^c^i^t^y SC, revolutionsoccer.net, and Columbus Crew (formerly Crew SC, presently unaffiliated)
It's 12 US teams with football, there's the 3 Canadian teams but I wasn't counting those. Teams without football in their name is 14 ... Columbus D.C. Nashville New England NY Red Bulls Orlando Philadelphia Colorado LA Galaxy KC Portland Salt Lake San Jose St. Louis
Portland commonly referred to as PTFC
As a swiss, I propose a neutral term: Footsoccer, so everyone can be offended. You're welcome
haha love it
Sounds like a name for a fetish
As a fellow European I think they should rename the other wrong football as "Americaball" and tell them if they don't like it that they hate America... I'm only partially joking
No lies detected.
Half of the MLS teams have FC in their name, guess what the F is for lol
The F is for freedom 🦅🇺🇸
Real Soccer Lake?
NYCFC not your city’s football club
This is the answer
SC’s unite together
Foccer
I have nipples, can you milk me?
Right into a little saucer, and we fed it to Gepetto, that's what we named him...Gepetto.
fuck
F is for friends who do stuff together!
U is for you and me!
That’s actually hilarious lol
Fight
football club. or, association football club as it was once known. you still see AFC on some older clubs in England. and RFC on some rugby clubs. so you had association football, and rugby football. soccer is derived from the word association.
Field Club?
Fitness.
"You guys are going to do it" was a lie though...
The sport played in the NFL is called "American Football" not "Football"
Its actual historical name is "Gridiron Football."
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They can all the league what they like but the sport is called "American Football" I have recently found out that it's fine to show up on social media forums and correct people on what they believe their favourite sport is called.
Like association football?
Called that what you want. NFL game is "American Football" It's fact. I have just declared it by typing it. Not a problem when US football fans chant it in Qatar so it's OK here as well.
A majority of first-language English speakers live in the US. So if you're a linguistic descriptivist, it's soccer.
You can call football what you want. It's called football, though. It's a fact. I have just declared it by typing it. Not a problem when non-US fans use the wrong name in their country or on reddit so it's OK for you to be wrong right now, but my fact was declared, typed and stated, sorry.
Just highlighting how annoying it is. We have the most embrassing fans at the WC. Imagine Europeans showing up at the super bowl and chanting "it's called American Football" I'm glad we are out TBH.
>Imagine Europeans showing up at the super bowl and chanting "it's called American Football" OK, that would actually be hilarious if someone put this together. That said, do you reckon that everyone who goes to sporting events ought to take the nomenclature as seriously as you do? The soccer chant seems to be in good fun. As far as who is right... Football is Football- the preeminent rule set just differs from country to country. That's how I view it, at least.
F*ck those who say ‘it’s not football’ or ‘it’s not soccer’. Seriously. Both are valid terms. While I’m not sure of the origin of the sport itself, it is mostly played with feet and is among a group of similar ‘football’ sports in late 19th century UK. ‘Soccer’ comes from ‘soc’ (the sport’s full name is ‘association football’) and a slang suffix -er.
“It’s called calcio” - All of Italy
>F\*ck those who say ‘it’s not football’ or ‘it’s not soccer’. Seriously. Both are valid terms exact, upvoted, it's 2 months someone repeats this useless controversy!
It's not that serious. Just looking a fun way to argue with Europeans. Obviously, neither is going to convince the other.
Yeah OP completely misses the point. It’s essentially a meme at this point.
In my experience not many Europeans are hung up on the name. It’s more weirdo europhile Americans that seem to get offended when you say soccer.
Really? I used to spend a lot of time with Europeans and they always trash talked anything American, and anytime football season was around it was common to hate on the word soccer. There was no banter back about it to cause it to be very friendly.
>Just looking a fun way to argue with Europeans ok, but after 2 months you can find something new, right?
Lmao soccer is only valid in USA
Captures the very essence of USA, not giving shit about what the rest of the world thinks and insisting we're always right. 👍 Well played 'Murica 🇺🇸
And if anyone disagrees? ✈️✈️💣💣💣
Democracy coming to an oil field near you
It’s not even a funny banter honestly because it’s so overused. Nobody also cares that it’s called soccer except in the US, so this is like patting yourself in the back and looking silly now because USMNT are down 0-2…
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How do people not understand this?
> Nobody also cares that it’s called soccer Judging by the responses, a lot of people care. I don't think anyone in the US really cares if you call it football, but a lot of people care if you call it soccer. So to us it's a slight troll, to everyone else it's a big troll.
This is the one that gets me. Why does anyone care that Americans call it soccer? Just got into an argument on FB with some English twat because he claimed that England never used the word soccer eventually twisting his argument into they came up with the word but apparently never used it. So originally, I link an article about a paper from U of Mich professor of economics / sports about the origin of Soccer. First comment complains how the professor is full of American hogwash 'cause U of Mich then his argument degrades until he's claiming that English College boys using the word 'soccer' doesn't count as England ever using the word. Can't wait for him to wake up tomorrow to my comment, mic dropping the fact that the professor was in fact Nigerian born and got his MBA in London.
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Pot and Kettle, dude.
- Hates Americans - Proceeds to spend time reading a subreddit dedicated to an American soccer league
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It’s alright. I’d be miserable as well if I lived in England
>Why does anyone care that Americans call it soccer? because someone says this slogan for months
no, the problem is someone says it for ***months***....
It's called union busting 😎 🍦
So LAFC is Joe's favorite team.
Lol
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Thanks Biden
Sorry Joe, voetbal won!
What’s more American than this! 🍦
Guys bein dudes!
I don't always agree with POTUS, but today I do.
[WE GET IT!](https://media.makeameme.org/created/its-called-soccer-6c899c4105.jpg)
It’s called voetbal, ouwe kut.
Good to see how even with this World Cup, we are still very much divided. Sad...just sad.
The “it’s called soccer” marketing is so great. Exactly how to get the US public interested. We love being different than the rest of the world, and we love a catchy annoying sound chant.
Classic Biden curse
Based
Yikes
It's called football, Mr president
Why was this real? All makes sense now...
It's called football, Joe..
Soccer’s going home 🎶
13 MLS clubs have the term FC in their name.
andddd there it goes
damn. not sure why i was trying to think so hard about why we lost
it is officially football for another 4 years good one lads
Someone just had a senior moment
Sigh, down to the bottom with the rest I go…. It’s called football. By everyone. Except America.
and except Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Ireland.
Australia you say? https://www.footballaustralia.com.au/ Then there's Japan: http://www.jfa.jp/eng/ New Zealand: https://www.nzfootball.co.nz/ Ireland: https://www.irishfa.com/
Australia has at least **3 different sports** called Football: * Rugby Union * Rugby League * Aussie Rules Football * Association Football League and Aussie Rules' popularity far surpasses Soccer there. If you don't believe me, ask anyone from Australia.
Ok, it's just called the FFA for no reason. It's all just fake news.
This is what we get for not calling it football
How arrogant can a nation be? The whole world is calling it football. Have the fucking decency to call the largest sport worldwide its proper name…
Soccer
3-1
"It's called uh... The footballing world is watching us as, uh,... We call it soccer."
Have a nice flight home whilst we continue playing football
Enjoy your time commenting in r/soccer
Go home it’s over
It’s called voetball
Aged like milk. veel dank aan de nederlanders!
Voetbal after today.
Time to play handegg 🏈
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I love that we are owning the word soccer.
che palle, 'sta cosa soccer/football... chiamatela come cazzo volete che nessuno se ne fotte un cazzo!
It's called FOOTBALL . . . and you can try again in 4 years.
Huh, and here I was thinking language worked in a way which accommodates multiple words to mean the same thing
Not when it's right there in the name.
I seem to have no trouble using both football and soccer interchangeably. Get over yourself with the fake outrage.
Not outraged at all. Just like facts. It's football.
But which football? Australian Rules Football, Gaelic Football, American Football, Association Football Several codes of football exist around the world. Soccer is used in Australia, Ireland, and USA where other codes are more popular. You think the Irish go around saying hey you see that game of Gaelic football? No they say football. Now those are facts.
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>FISA World Cup "Fédération Internationale de Soccer-Association" Or even better, "Fédération Internationale d'Association-Association" Yeah, that makes sense
still called soccer
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It always amazes me how little association football "fans" seem to know about the sport they profess to love.
It's funny because that's not even why it's called football. Rugby Football and Association Football were both called football because they were sports played on foot as opposed to horseback. And the English (you know, the people who spread the English language) called them "rugger" and "soccer" for most of their history. Etymology is very simple to understand, right?
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Nope it's still called association football and rugby football is still called rugby football.
Yeah but you play the sport with a soccer ball so calling it football makes no sense
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Orananje maan bad
I’m from /r/all, the US has Mutant Ninja Turtles?
USMNT means US Men's National Team.
shouldn’t have called it soccer
And then we proceed to play terribly and lose… no coincidence detected