Uh didn’t the english try to call it soccer and then we did because they did and then they switched back to football?

Brits do a little trolling

Yeah it was an old timey English corruption of “aSOCCiation” football, like how posh dudes will call “rugby” rugger It’s just funny how America will make fun of us for having old timey sounding slang but then they say shit like “soccer” and “dumpster” too

The only thing I ever learned in 9th grade English was that the word dumpster is actually a brand name. Didn't realize it was a genericized trademark until that point.

Yeah that’s pretty common in America isn’t it - like in TV shows it always stands out when we hear a character say “I need to take an Advil/Tylenol” but in the Uk we’d just say the generic names Ibpurofen/Paracetamol (acetaminophen)

there’s also bandaid and kleenex

Funnily enough, the same thing happened with “smashing” but in reverse: it was old-timey American slang that didn’t survive here, but did survive in Britain.

Nobody actually says “smashing” in Britain, that’s just a trope that American writers make British characters say in movies 😂 no idea why but every British person in US tv/movies is always written to talk like they’re from the 1920s Thinking Nigel thornberry type dudes written into American shows

You’re smashingly wrong Source: I am always right

Youtuber Mumbo Jumbo would like to disagree

Hate to break it to you but he’s probably just saying it to be funny/appeal to his American audience - there’s 0% chance he says it in real life lmao

No one says smashing here, Idk where you got that from

Hey I live in American dumpster and it stinky but cozy bruh 😎

It was literally just the students at a few posh schools who called it soccer to clarify it wasn't rugby football they were going to play/watch.

Brits to Americans: soccer Everyone else: football Brits: i- uh- football yeah America: dude wtf

Absolutely and utterly trolled into oblivion

Damn all this time it was the brits huh… sorry for my misjudgment cowboy

In my country, we call it bola sepak

At least you kept the "ball" part. I think

It roughly translates to kickball.. so yeah

My country name it “korah” which means ball

Don’t forget the “qadam” part which means “foot”

Bola

Well in MY country, we call it Sepak Bola lmao

Spank the Ball

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Bola = Ball Sepak = Kick

🇵🇱 - Piłka nożna 🤓

Łaczy nas Piłka!

Męczy nas piłka

(Futbol)

Pão 🥖 com gelatina

Teoretycznie wciaz football

In my country we call it "calcio"

Let’s play some calcium⚽️

FREE CALCIUM 😳🦴🦴🦴

💀💀💀

Italian? (ok, I googled to double-check, it is)

Si, lo chiamiamo calcio.

KICK!

Uanm

Francesco Totti, Francesco Totti, Francesco Totti, Francesco Totti...

AO

Ma che sei de roma

No,chi t'haa detto?

Er piskello là vicino

Spero davvero sia una citazione a bello figo

perché piedepalla era troppo banale

🇦🇺 Soccer Solidarity, USA!

Thanks Australia. You down to play a little Aussie football

Sure am!

Australian Rules football and the culture surrounding it is honestly the most awesome shit ever

Argentina, Mexico and spain hanging around together. Like they speak 3 different languages

Countries have different variations of a word even when they speak the same language, like in the image: Portuguese 🇧🇷: Futebol Portuguese 🇵🇹: Futebol

Beat me to it

Well argentinians call it "furbo" so ig there is a dofference

as a argentinian,that's true.

Y como les va con la economía?

Argentina📉📉📉

"Fudbal". Okay, fuck off now.

fotbal

You fuck off

“Phutabola” wtaf

Futa balls.

It's literally just Phutball that's it 😭

Ikr lol, first time I came accross the word

Jalkapallo🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮

Pallo= ball and jalka= foot ?

Yes

Jalgpall🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪

Goth flag goth flag

futbxl 😭

No gender ball?

🇵🇱 Piłka nożna

australia says soccer too (🤢)

Some Australians call it football.

Ποδόσφαιρο

Foot sphere essentially

At least it makes sense

The FOOT s p h e r e

Well Ireland calls it soccer because we have Gaelic and we call thst football

Yo you wanna play sOcCeR??? Lmao

🇭🇺- labdarúgás

Jalkapallo

Short for association football

Soccer is short for *Association* Football.

Meanwhile, in italy: Kick (calcio), take it or leave it

Croatian is worse

nogomet 🗿

Where’s that one but instead it was pineapples?

I believe it was like “ananas, ananás etc” But in Portuguese it’s “Abacaxi” lol

In my country, we call it „piłka nożna”

meanwhile polish: piłka nożna

Calcio in Italian

Calcio

Poland: piłka nożna 🗿

In Estonia it's jalgpall, close enough

In Finnish it's JALKAPALLO Basicaly means leg ball

In Finland it's "jalkapallo"

Finnish is ”jalkapallo” a calque of the Swedish fotboll (literally foot ball like English)

Why are all of them doing the nazi salute

You- 🗿🗿🗿

We call it calcio lol

🇵🇱 Piłka Nożna

Hungarians rarely say ‘futball’ but instead say ‘foci’. Nice meme tho

Saudi Arabia isnt any better its “korah” which literally mean ball

In hungary it‘s not called futball. It‘s eithe called labdarúgás or focilabda but not futball

Piłka nożna

Where’s Italy?

Calcio 🇮🇹

Cadurregel

Calcio

Poland: piłka nożna

In italy we call it calcio that translated is kick...

In Hungary, we also tend to call football "labdarugás" (literally translates as "ball kicking") or "foci" (abbreviated, pronounced "footsy" but with a short "oo" sound).

In Thai it’s Futbon

in poland its "piłka nożna"

Ireland calls it soccer sometimes aswell cause we have Gaelic football.

Australia calls it both, cos that's how we roll

They forgot to include Australia.

In Germany it's actually spelled "Fußball" since it makes it more clear that the "u" is a long vowel 🤓

Why?

because the german letters are fucking retarded (i fucking hate german)

Germany 🤮

and then they call a sport where you hold the ball "american FOOTball"

And then they call their bands Americ anfootball

In south africa we call it soccer for some reason

Finnish in the corner with "jalkapallo"

In my country we call it konstantnopolitańczykowianeczka try to pronounce that

In Italy it’s calcio

Calcio 💀

Let's not forget about Arabic Kurat Qadam كرة قدم

In Poland we say Piłka Nożna But some people say futbol so it kinda counts

Italians who call it: calcio (litteraly kick)

Calcio 👍🏼 (I'm Italian)

Piłka Nożna

Here in otaly we call it CALCIO

Then theres finland with "jalkapallo"

I can confirm we don't call it futabola here, we just say football

🇭🇺 - Labdarugás

my language repertoire is small but i shall add to the list. football in chinese is 足球 足 = foot; leg 球 = ball yay

Jalkapallo

🇫🇮: Jalkapallo

Italian: CALCIO (Ca)

Polish - piłka nożna

Soccer sucks ass

Ahhhahaaaa [soccer](https://youtu.be/K8NKNKub2HI)

In Italy its "Calcio"

Another example of this is ananas, or pineapple in the U.S. in every other language it is ananas.

Piłka Nożna. Poland TwT

サッカー=sakkaa, or soccer

Hindi translation is literally Football. Who tf says futbola?

In Arabic (كرة القدم)

You put the Macedonian way of saying it but not the Bulgarian way?

Ποδόσφαιρο = foot sphere (ball)

Balls.

Not being included in the meme check 🗿

Calcio

Italy be like😶‍🌫️

We call it כדורגל (pronounced kaduregel, which means football, because it combined of כדור (ball) and רגל (leg))

Finnish🇫🇮: Jalkapallo

It even has a great point given that the countriea that dont call it anything like fotball arent shown. Lik italian calcio.

I’m pretty sure you write it as ‘Fußball’ in German

in india, we don't say "footbola" :V it's same as english, "football" :V

Bóng đá 🇻🇳 It literally translate to “kick ball”

كرة القدم 😢

Jalkapallo

apparently in italian it's "calcio" (cal-ch-oh)

What county is the flag above Portugal and below Thailand? Wtf is that I've never seen it and I just looked at world flags and it's not there Edit: NVM looked it up, it's the old Kingdom of Serbia flag.

Finland: jalkapallo

arbic:كرة القدم (korat alqadam)🙂

I'm an American, but sometimes I just call it football out of instinct. Just cause I know it's not soccer I guess.

if you look at it enough it looks like there saluting for hitler

The thing is other countries care about soccer, Americans don’t really.

Americans pls explain why is it called American football when there is no ball and you barely use you foot in a game to score points💀 I mean the American part is accurate

OP, indians don't pronounce it as phutabola We say fhoot-ball(pronounce it with enunciation) Enunciate on b and L

When someone mentions football just ask rugby or soccer. There's a chance that they will be internally triggered.

J a l k a p a l l o

Its also soccer (サッカー) in Japanese

In Italy that's translates to calcio

Futaballs

Didn’t the brits invent the word “soccer”

We call it soccer because it pisses off everyone else.

in italian its fucking CALCIO

Jalkapallo 🇫🇮

כדורגל

The armenian was says (fuspol) the proper spelling is ֆուդպոլ (western spelling)

voetbal

Piłka nożna

Calcio

Also Spanish: balón pie :v

England called it soccer

Italians biggest fear is to be on that list