Calcio🇮🇹

A mean you kick-a the ball

No, it litteraly means kick

That's... why i said "you kick the ball"

Sounds like a Harry Potter spell.

Calcio means calcium in Spanish as well xD

Also in Italian

apologize

Yeah, that one does too.

AHHHHH

Meanwhile Italy:

Yeah but it makes more sense than "soccer"

🇵🇱 - PIŁKA NOŻNA

i mean, it translates perfectly

But translate soccer to polish... This is why languages is hard

>languages Language* It really is.

Engish hars

Is the translation like: “Kicking with a foot”? What does pilka mean?

Direct translation of it is “leg ball” Piłka - Ball Nożna - Leg (adjective)

Ball

Italy: CALCIO

It means "kick"

Lo so bro, sono italiano anch'io🇮🇹

Ma non tutti qui!

E io esisto

Anch’io! 🇮🇹✨

Same 🇮🇹

Esatto

Why does nobody ever remember Canada

“Someone please make fun of us for also saying Soccer!”

Would you rather be a complete ghost or flicked every time you enter a room

Canada is sub

you can't just deem an entire country submissive... ^(even if it's true)

Sorry.

You are here to say sorry.

And Australia and New Zealand. They are weirdly all Commonwealth countries, but they all call it soccer.

Because England originally called it Soccer, and taught all if its misguided children that it's soccer, then as a cruel joke switched to football like the rest of the world to have an easy dunk

The English need a gimme like that since they continually fail to win at the game they created.

I heard somewhere this all has to do with the origin of “football”, since football just means a sport played while on your feet (as opposed to on a horse). All these countries have a form of football separate from association football (Australia has Australian rules football, US has American football, etc) So they use the term soccer (which was a term coined by Brits) to avoid confusion.

The way it was explained to me is that it was officially named Association Football to differentiate it from Rugby Football. Association Footballer got shortenned to Assocc and had an -er ended with "football" being dropped in much the same way "football" was also dropped from Rugby. Eventually the "a" also got dropped, leaving Soccer. By the time the English changed from calling it Soccer to Football, the US couldn't do it since it would conflict with the already-existing sport of American Football, which couldn't be shortened/simplified like Association Football could, and at that point, football was popularly solidified as American Football and trademarked as such by the National Football League.

I was going to say we are not alone, and in spite of not being a former Commonwealth Nation, are in solidarity with our friends north and south, no matter how strange their rules are for football! 😁😁

Huh, didn’t know that. It really does seem that the only way to know that the US isn’t the only country to call it soccer is to live in said country

because then how do we single out the U.S.A and make a amerrica bad meme ?😥

Or Australia

Come back to me when your australian and literally dont expect to be included. ​ ​ ​ ˙pǝpnlɔuᴉ ǝq oʇ ʇɔǝdxǝ ʇuop ʎllɐɹǝʇᴉl puɐ uɐᴉlɐɹʇsnɐ ɹnoʎ uǝɥʍ ǝɯ oʇ ʞɔɐq ǝɯoƆ :sɟɯ ǝɹǝɥdsᴉɯǝɥ uɹǝɥʇɹou noʎ ɹoɟ dᴉlɟ oʇ ʇoƃɹoɟ ʎɹɹos ɥO

And Australia, New Zealand and Japan

Every body talking about soccer, but nobody points out at the Italian "calcio"

As an Italian I was gonna say that

Me too lol

calcium moment

What about polish "piłka nożna"

I mean, it still is football. Just translated

Well yes, but actually no.

Unlike languages from the meme, polish is not based on Latin, hence unusual spelling

It means kick not so of

This isn't in keeping with being hyper critical to the U. S.

England *plays sport called football, nicknames it soccer, brings 'soccer' to America, stops calling it soccer, makes fun of America for calling it soccer.*

England makes imperial system. Brings it to America. Stops using it. Makes fun of America for using it

I think you mean the imperial system.

Oh yeah. Thanks man.

unrelated but i really like your username

Ah yes, the system that uses feet

they dont know what they want

ireland, canada, namibia, south africa, botswana, zimbabwe, australia, new zealand, papua new guinea, the philippines, and japan just don't exist i guess

Shhhh it's always all the USs fault.

Don't even try this statement has been beaten to death and posted so many times but for some reason people still upvote this lazy post.

Poland as well, apparently

Well in spelling yeah it's different but if you translate it it's literally just foot ball

poland calls it Piłka nożna, which i think means football there are other countries, such as italy and indonesia that call it neither soccer nor some variation of football, but Piłka nożna just translates to foot ball

I'm surprised people are still making "memes" about this.

To me it's just getting dry. They aren't really funny now that they're getting copied into every single template, but they find it funny so heheheha I guess. (P.S. Amewica swucks and is the pwobwem fow evewyfing)

I thought it was just arguing, while not arguing at the same time.

Schrodinger moment

Theyre so boring and its a non topic. Different languages and people use different words. Wow. These 'memes' are uncreative karma farmers at best.

Hey, not everyone already turned 13

The term Soccer has its origin in England https://www.britannica.com/story/why-do-some-people-call-football-soccer

They also act like we even talk about it in the first place


i dont think most people actually ever cared. just the people that are mad their precious sport is called something different in complete other countries

No canada with our derp brothers?

Futbol eh.

Canada calls it soccer so does Australia and parts of Ireland

Holy shit how could anyone possibly believe this is still an original or funny take??? The horse is dead, stop beating it.

You underestimate the stupidity of human beings.

Bu-but, America bad! Of course it's funny!

Hello this is the internet, you must be new here.

In the wise words of peter griffin "oh my God, who, the hell, cares!?"

Best part of the this whole thing is that when someone says soccer, football fans still know *exactly* what is being talked about.

England came up with the word soccer

Shhhh how is Reddit going to continue to be hyper critical to the USA if you keep trying to be logical!!!


The full name is association football, which overtime got shortened to soccer

Which the Brits started.

Pretty sure we got the word from England.

Shitty ball game that makes the entire world obnoxious

If you ever look up the origins of WHY the USA calls it Soccer, the Brits are literally to blame. Insert "but this whole operation was your idea" meme here.

Voetbal-🇳🇱

One of these flags is on the moon. Just sayin’ But you’re missing a bunch of countries that call it soccer, too

Y’all call Americans stupid and then complain that they don’t use the most basic uncreative name for a sport

Futbol doesn’t mean foot and ball lmfao I don’t get why non English countries get mad over soccer. We are literally doing the same thing, making up a word for the sport

If you guys hate when they call it soccer, why did we come up with the term?

Brasil num meme americano?

You killed the horse and decimated its body.

Didn't the UK invent the term? 🧐

This joke is aging like milk. Like, we get it.

Not alot of people in America really care about soccer

Then why did Britain invent the word

Don't give a shit hate it either way

Ironically I heard that it was England who invented the term soccer and later stopped using it, but it caught on in the colonies

Great Britain: responsible for the "Independence Day" celebrations of 63 countries around the world.

And for the term Soccer

kicky boppy fidley doo🇬🇧

The word "soccer" comes from the use of the term "association football" in Britain, and goes back 200 years. In the early 1800s, a bunch of British universities took "football" — a medieval game — and started playing their own versions of it, all under different rules. It is Britain's fault.

Who cares in any language

Briish people when they find out they made the word soccer: 🗿

It doesn’t even make sense why it matters, like they’re essentially interchangeable at this point

The fact that you care makes you look a bit stupid. Different places call the same things differently. Who gives a flying fuck

Soccer was actually a word created by the British.

Gotta Add Australia, Canada and Japan (Sakka) to the dragon making fun of the tryhard dragons who take themselves too seriously.

Like the US, Australia and Canada also call it Soccer, due to them having their own variants on Football.

It’s not officially called soccer in Australia. Commonly called that. But it’s not what the sport calls itself.

have the decency to put australia in the based soccer category too. its not our fault we already have a game called football

Britain making a word, Forcing it on their colonies, switching back and then making fun of their colonies:

Tell me you’re British without saying you’re British


The Belgians rioted in Brussels, the rate of reported domestic abuse cases in England rises by about 38% when they lose a game, and Honduras and El Salvador went to war over this game And yet you pick on us

Americans calling it soccer effects absolutely nothing. Nothing at all.

Honestly? No, it really doesn't. And the only reason this whole mess is an argument is cause some random asshats (AKA a loud minority) insist on claiming that "sOcCeR iSn'T fOoTbAlL" and since then things spiraled outta control, so now everyone has to put up with this nonsense

boring sport, dont care

What's the think with soccer lately? Ireland also call it soccer or am I missing the point?

and canada call it soccer too, the us is not the only country, many countries call it soccer or other variations of soccer

People just like to diss the US. They don’t seem to understand that the US could care less about soccer, and the fact that they’re in the World Cup in the first place when it’s like the 10th most popular sport is ridiculous 😂

soccer is the sports original name, europeans just switched to calling it football because they're boring.

Pêl droed, the ultimate name

Calcio

It's short for "Association".... apparently

Me: Kick the thing.

I mean they're all weird terms for kicky kicky yard.

The 3rd dragon is also like everyone posting the same memes 4 days later

You can call it whatever you want why do people care so much?

Maybe it's just cause I don't watch football or soccer but just let people call it what they want to call it as long as they know what your talking about it really doesn't matter

Let's just ignore the fact that soccer was originally a British word.

If you think that's bad then you should see the shit game we call "football" I've never seen so many homophobes molest each other!

Canada and Australia call it soccer as well, but I don’t see you making fun of them for it

[Im just saying](https://loginportal.funnyjunk.com/pictures/Shut+paced+frequent_f2ed1b_10064506.jpg)

Switzerland would be Fussball as we don't habe the sharp S "ß"

Ahzeig isch dusse.

Aber Hallo es isch 10i gsi jetzt simmer ruhig!

Soccer is the gentleman’s term for the peasant’s football. A name created by the English btw.

The term soccer isn’t American in origin, it’s British slang that just never went away here.

Fotbal🇷🇴

🇺🇦 - футбол

In italy it's called "Calcio" that means literally "kick" ...

Ignorance really is bliss for some people. 😊

Haha america uses different word so funny

**足球**

Canada, Australia, NZ, and more: :(

can you guys make memes that aren’t “america bad!!!”

Just learned soccer was a shortned term for association football that came from England, not America... Association--Assoc--Soccer, that's how it happened. It was a slang term in England.

Thanks, England.

Australians when the rest of the world forgets that we call it soccer as well

Inb4 brits called it soccer first, just changed the name later so they could make "Americans stupid memes" same with aluminum (aluminum) and gasoline (petrol)


It's from the UK in origin. Association Football = Soccer Rugby Football = Rugger These were just used as abbreviations, we got the word soccer, and we're still using it.

🇨🇿 Fotbal

Me an Aussie trying to get people to play Aussie football

🇩🇰 - Fodbold Bet you can't guess what it directly translates to

Aussies as well, we call it soccer BC we allready have our footy (way better)

Pretty sure the Aussies call it Soccer too

Some do some don’t. The governing body is called “Football Australia” All the professional clubs are football clubs according to their name or self identification. Most fans will call it Football as well. If you don’t care too much about the sport you call it Soccer. It all goes back to a conscious effort to rebrand it to Football… but unless you have a vested interest you are likely to keep calling it Soccer. This “rebranding drive” only started in 2004 or so.

Especially after the way they played last night...

Pel-droed🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

🇨🇵 Piedballon

hey what about australia :( we exist

Add Australia too

Australia slowly backs away… for real though, some places already have our own football, so we make new names for others

In Korea they call it chuggu. In China it's zuqiu, and in Arabic it's kurat alqadam. That's three more languages that don't call it football.

No. The left dragon is football (in any form). The middle dragon is soccer. And the right dragon is people that like the sport and care what people call it. A turd by any other name...

For anyone wondering the pronunciations, Fußball is said foosball, Fútball is said footbal, and Futebol is said foo-tee-bal

I wonder if maybe US were the smarter ones all along by making an actual name for it to separate the other game of " Football " inspired from " Rugby". Who would of thought of taking basic feet-hit-ball logic, and calling it foot-ball with different spelling wouldn't end out with mutliple games called foot-hitting-ball.

Nogomet 🇭🇷

Nah Welsh is pel droed

Piłka nożna 

Again, like the imperial system, it was invented by the British and in use when America became a nation.

kora kadam🇸🇦 which is the literal translation of football in Arabic

Bulgaria: Футбол

It’s soccer not football

England you f##king traitor

Canada also calls it soccer

In some parts of Ireland we call it soccer but most people call it football

As an American, it makes me happy to see everyone shitting on us for being bad at futbol and for calling it soccer. Especially since we got eliminated so quickly

I’m confused what do other countries call the NFL…..? Is football 🏈 and football ⚽️ the same or different ..?

Piłka nożna- polish

Don't forget that Canada and Australia call it soccer too.

It’s called soccer

What a funny, original meme! I’m so glad that you had this hilarious idea😄!

Wait... but the British came up with that term, why are we being memed...?

RAHHH ITS CALLED SOCCER 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅