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Why do Americans have to call football soccer?
In the World Cup, American fans are definitely the most hated group. When cheering for the team, unlike the singing and dancing of fans from other countries, the cheering methods of American fans are quite scarce. Basically, they either shout “USA” or sing the phrase “It’s called soccer” repeatedly in various tunes. (This is called soccer)”.
In the group stage of this World Cup group stage, after the United States drew with England, American fans still played a banner with “It’s called soccer” in the stands to play on the mentality of the English. In fact, this is not the first time the United States has done this. In the 1994 World Cup in the United States, American fans used their identity as the host to constantly emphasize to the world that the game you play is not called football, but soccer. The phrase “It’s called soccer” has also become a slogan for American football fans since 1994. Whenever the United States wins or advances in the World Cup, this sentence will be flooded on American social media.
In the third round, after the United States defeated Iran 1-0, “It’s called soccer” was once a hot search on Twitter. In the United States, people from all walks of life posted this sentence on Twitter one after another. At this time, this sentence is no longer a simple stalk, but a way for Americans to show their patriotism. This sentence is like a wave, and it has also swept together athletes from all walks of life in the United States. Whether it is a legendary pitcher in MLB or an American football player playing in the British League, they all tweeted “It’s called soccer” to express Support for Team USA.
American football reporter George Culesi wrote on Twitter: “We will always call football soccer until you beat us in the World Cup.” As the origin of modern football, Britain refers to football in the United States as soccer The behavior of the United States is naturally quite annoying. The British media has pointed out countless times that the behavior of the United States is a cultural invasion. However, if you trace the origin of the word soccer, the British may feel embarrassed, because it is the British themselves who first used the word soccer.
Modern football is generally considered to have begun in 1867, when football only had the name football. Later, the FA formulated a number of rules for modern football, with clear regulations and restrictions on the shape of the ball and the position where the ball touches the ball. This kind of sport played under the FA rules is therefore called association football. (Association Football).
Before the rules were determined, there were different ways to play football in various places. Many people like to pick up the ball and run away when they are playing, letting others chase them. After the FA established a bunch of rules and regulations for football, these players who like to go wild quit. They think whoever stipulates the football game must follow the rules of the FA? So this group of people formed the Rugby Association. At the time, rugby was known as Rugby football because it was played in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.
Both the FA and Rugby Association insisted that they played football, so in the 1880 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, students at Oxford University made the distinction for the first time. In English at that time, it was popular to shorten long words, so association football was shortened to assoc, and rugby football was shortened to rug.
In 1889, because assoc was too convoluted to read, it was changed to socca. Later, in 1895, the British upper class headed by Oxford University students became popular to add the er suffix after the nouns, so socca became soccer, and rug became rugger.
It should be noted that both soccer and rugger were just slang terms in the British mainland at that time, not formal usage. In the late 19th century, football and rugby reached the United States. Compared with football, football, which has not so many restrictions and can be played with hands and feet, is more popular with Americans and has a wider spread. At this time, Americans felt that the name rugby football was too long, so they could just call it football.
The United States later made many improvements to rugby, so it is sometimes emphasized that rugby is American football. Since Americans preconceived that football is football, so what to call the real football has become a problem. At this time, the Americans suddenly remembered that this thing still has an alias of soccer in the UK, so they might as well replace football with soccer. Before 1945, soccer was almost as common as football in the UK.
However, after the end of World War II, the national power and international influence of the United States far surpassed that of the United Kingdom, and a large number of American English vocabulary also flowed into the United Kingdom. In order to ensure the purity of the language and maintain its self-esteem like a swollen face, Britain no longer uses soccer to refer to football after World War II. Soccer has gradually become an outdated vocabulary in the UK.
The American Football Association once used a logo with a big soccer
In fact, Britain need not worry about the widespread use of the word soccer. In most languages, the word football is derived from British English football, such as Fußball in German, футбол in Russian, fútbol in Spanish, etc. Even in Chinese, the word football comes from a literal translation of football. Although it is written in Korean as 축구 (Chinese character: Cuqiu), it is also a literal translation from English.
The widespread use of Football is due to the obvious contribution of Britain to modern football. However, the super cultural influence of the United States has always kept the United Kingdom in the throat. The essence behind the British entanglement with soccer is the unwillingness to use American English more widely. Therefore, in previous World Cups, the British made a lot of fuss about the word soccer. For example, in the 2018 World Cup, the British media did not sarcasm the United States, saying that using soccer to refer to football was a manifestation of the lack of sports culture and lack of historical background. ”
Today, “It’s called soccer” has evolved from a joking stalk to a social movement. Americans believe that this method can best show the confidence of Americans in their own culture. They firmly believe that football is a sport It should be called soccer. The so-called football is just an outdated term that many people around the world use but is very bad.
But this may be just wishful thinking of the Americans, because in the world, except for the United States, only Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries call football soccer. Japanese football comes from the United States, so in Japanese, football (サッカー) The word is also derived from soccer.
In fact, it is not only the Americans who sing against the British. For example, in Italian, football is written as calcio, which comes from the Italian word for “kick (calciare)”. In Southeast Asian countries, football still has various strange names. But the British don’t seem to care about this. It seems that for them, it can be called anything, but it cannot be called soccer, just like pineapple must not be placed on authentic Italian pizza.
In the 1/8 finals of this year, the United States was finally defeated by the Netherlands, and Australia, which also used soccer, was also eliminated by Argentina. It looks like the world of football is finally quiet.
But the United States will not let it go, just as American netizens said on Twitter: “Even if the United States is out, this thing is still called soccer!”
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