My earliest soccer memories are of my Opa watching his beloved Fußball on our black and white TV. Since this was California in the 1970’s, the program was in Spanish. This didn’t stop him, since he know the sport inside out. It did, however, inhibit my German Soccer Vocabulary. And when I got older, and produced a few soccer players…
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Why does America call Football Soccer? A short history of Fußball
Sometimes it seems like Soccer in America is treated as a “lesser” sport. Then it feels like an insult to injury when we don’t even call it by the name Football or Fußball like the rest of the world. And why is that? Why does America call Football Soccer? Why would we have a different name for a worldwide sport…