“Soccer”, the word invented by English that remains in the United States and that world footballers hate | Entertainment in the United States
The ball turns again. Argentine star and player Inter de Miami, Lionel Messi, was already expecting it during advertising in Super Bowl. While it was seen dominated by an oval ball that is used in the National Football League tournaments (NFL) and kicks it, it announces the following: ‘When the end of the end Football, cOMIENZA FOOTBALL. “Advertising referred to the beginning of the Major League Soccer season, MLS, football championship in the United States. This year’s 22nd February begins the season of this sport 2025-2026, which over the years and globalization began to popularize millions of followers in the North American country. Unlike the rest of the world, however, football in this nation is better known as FootballA term that was curiously created by the English and that lovers of this sport from the rest of the world hatred.
“American football is played as a series of advertising songs while Football It is played as jazz. I wonder about the subject: Why do Americans insist on calling it Football? Why do they have so many problems who call him football? It is a game in which the ball is used with the foot (refers to the word in English Foot, leg and ballball). The song is in the name, ”says British comedian John Cleese in a document fragment Art of Football from A to Z.
Etymological origin of the word Football In England he returns to 1863 as explained in the documentary series Billions of dollarsLate journalist Grant Wahl. A group of people gathered and created what a football association would call (Football Association), suggesting the creation of rules and sports rules. But because of the expansion of the word AssociationIn 1890, university students like oxford had the habit of removing the first syllable from the word and adding letters Er to make them own. For example, a rugby call version has become rugby; he champagne They called him Champers.
“A problem with a word Association is that the first syllable is the word Donkey (ASS or idiot in Spanish, according to context). These British students apparently had too much decorum. The first syllable skipped and took the second, Socand that is why they are played Soc’er And not Ass’er“Says one of the historians in the document.
The Podcast and British writer Surruthi bala, what -author of the program RedhandedHe explains that during the same time football began to gain popularity in the United States where American football has already been practiced. “Then the term.” Football He was adopted because they thought it made sense. In the middle of the century, however, we leave the call period and say football again, but no one told the Americans. We have expanded it, we are changing the rules. We didn’t tell them and now we laugh at them when they call it Football“, Confirms.
After this colloquialism, the United States and Canada that share MLS as well as Australia and South Africa, some of the countries that still refer to football as Football.
The first football leagues in the United States were founded in the 1960s, United Soccer Association (USA) and National Professional Soccer League (NPSL). In 1968, these merged and created the North American football league. He had a relative success because he had 24 sets that included the New York Cosmos Mythical Team, an unsuccessful experiment between 1968 and 1984, which came to Pelá and Beckenbauer among their ranks. However, this league was dissolved in 1985 due to a strong economic crisis due to poor management that caused a large debt.
Until 1996, when the first MLS season was played with 10 teams, there was no professional football league in the country. According to the Gallup survey in 1997 Football He was last tied in a favorite sports list along with art skating. Almost 30 years later, football climbed fourth and is very close to overcoming baseball.
There is no direct connection but popularity Football In recent years or football for the most purists, it seems related to the number of Latinos in the country. According to the statistics, in 2023 it was estimated that 65.1 million people in the United States were of Hispanic origin. This represents more than 19% of the country’s population. This, added to the arrival of important players in recent years in MLS, such as Argentine Messi, or the passage of Mexicans such as Carlos Vela or Javier El Chicharito Hernández, two countries with great kindness for King of Sport, have become factors to understand the growth of this sport.
The term hated and spoiled in some football circles around the world but football In the United States it is a sport that has good health, and with the World Cup, which will be held together with its neighbors Mexico and Canada just around the corner, Football He’s here to stay.
