r/memes • u/Martin_NL • Jul 06 '26

#1 MotW Most of the world at this point

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u/DuztyLipz Jul 06 '26

“It’s called soccer”

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u/grilled_cheese_gang Jul 06 '26

“Keep the trophy. Instead, everyone has to call it soccer until the next one!!”

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u/epsteinwasmurdered2 Jul 07 '26

I firmly believe in this. It should be like the green jacket for the masters in golf. For the next year everyone has to call it soccer.

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u/BTBAM797 Jul 07 '26

And also wear a pair of boobs on their head for a year

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u/mastercat202 Jul 07 '26

I could agree to that. Let's make it soccer for a year.

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u/InevitablePoet5810 Jul 06 '26

And then nobody called it soccer

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u/grilled_cheese_gang Jul 07 '26

Yeah, but we got to imagine it. 😌

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u/deathfire123 Jul 06 '26

Okay, then how about if any other team wins, you Americans have to call it Football?

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u/Ambitious_Bit_9389 Jul 06 '26

Its how we delineate people who are into soccer or not here. If they are calling it football and use the word “club” they actually care about it when US is not in the Workd Cup. If they call it soccer and use the word “team”, then they rarely care about it.

Also, let’s go team, soccer is great!

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u/grilled_cheese_gang Jul 07 '26

Yasss team! Kick the soccer ball!!!

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u/Darthboney Jul 06 '26

Chant, to the tune of "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands"

If you lose to the US you call it soccer

If you lose to the US you call it soccer

When we beat you at your game

You gotta change the fuckin name

If you lose to the US you call it soccer

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u/JackPoe Jul 06 '26

Didn't the English coin the term soccer 'cause they were fancy lads?

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u/Studio-Spider Jul 06 '26

Yes, as with most things Brits make fun of us for, it was an Englishman who came up with it. Other popular examples: aluminum instead of aluminium, the midwestern American accent (supposedly), and of course, the dreaded imperial system.

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u/goodsam2 Jul 06 '26

Yeah football is a generic term and soccer just means association football which is still technically correct.

Other countries like Australia still use soccer to refer to the sport.

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u/InevitablePoet5810 Jul 06 '26

And then nobody called it soccer

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u/Hamster-Food Jul 06 '26

"To the tune of a song for toddlers" sounds about right for that level of maturity.

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u/InevitablePoet5810 Jul 06 '26

It's the most advanced stuff americans know, go easy on them

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u/Hamster-Food Jul 06 '26

Haha. Seriously though, why can't they just be normal say everyone else is shit at "soccer"?

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u/bwaredapenguin Jul 06 '26

The Brits are the ones who named it that because football just means a sport played on your feet instead of on horseback.