It's called soccer in the USA, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand (each of those countries have their own sports that get the tag "football") - in fact there are far more native English speakers in the world who call it "soccer" than use "football"

In addition, the word "soccer" was coined in England as abbreviation of "asSOCiation football", as a way of differentiating it from other codes of football (rugby, gaelic, etc), and I read an article a year or 2 back that said the term "soccer" gradually fell out of fashion in the '70s/early 80s. Seeing as that decline loosely coincided with the rise of football hooliganism in England I leave the term "football" to the yobs and cheerfully call it soccer <whistle>


Of course I'm from New Zealand, a country where rugby is more national religion than national sport, and where soccer is played by those whose Mums won't let them play a proper sport