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Is football the original name, or soccer?

Which name came first?
The European call it football, American & Australians Soccer. Which came first?

It is football.
Americans and Australians call their own “football” (the one played with the Stewie Griffin head looking ball) football, so they had to find another name for football.
I call American/Australian insistence on soccer cultural imperialism.

Soccer – Ronaldinho VS Cristiano Ronaldo

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