In the English speaking world it's soccer... Except for in England where they created the word "soccer" and then decided it was to American when Americans started using it and tried to make a big thing out of it.
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President Trump says the sport played in the World Cup should be called “football”.
Major League Soccer – and someone who teaches a college course on “Soccer and Global Politics” – would disagree.
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‘Soccer’ originated as a slang term in the 1880s and continues to be used around the world today. So why are some people squeamish about the term?
