(04-09-2022, 01:33 PM)kdog Wrote: I always thought it was called football through out the world other then the US. You would be surprised that it has gained more interest here and they are building stadiums to host them .
https://www.loucity.com/lynnfamilystadium/
I was fairly sure that I had seen foreign names for the game apparently rooted in "soccer", but I can't at the moment prove it by offering examples.
P.S. One site tells me that the French use both, so perhaps that's what I noticed. An alternative theory put forward on ATS is that British boys stopped saying "soccer" when the Americans started using it. Perhaps the French picked up "soccer" from the Americans. I'm don't know what the Academie Francaise recommends. "Boule du pied", probably.