26 мар. 2014 г. · Football (soccer) is modeled after polo, and is called football because it's played ON foot, unlike polo, which is played on horseback. Soccer ...

12 сент. 2022 г. · It stems from the history of football type games. There was a game called football, which loosely involved kicking the ball with your feet, but ...

19 окт. 2021 г. · Modern UK football was originally called soccer. The US played with rules that formed early US football. The US just called it football. Then in ...

28 авг. 2024 г. · The etymology is unclear, but one suggestion is that this is a category of ball games played on foot, as opposed to on horseback such as polo.

6 окт. 2022 г. · American football is actually gridiron football, one of the three major forms of football, the others being rugby football and association football (soccer).

29 авг. 2021 г. · They were called this because they were played on foot, and with a ball, as opposed to the more popular games that were played on horseback.

15 окт. 2020 г. · Because "football" is a term that includes many sports including soccer and rugby refers to the fact that the game is played on foot as opposed to sports like ...

21 дек. 2022 г. · It's an English nickname for association football, and most countries that have another version of football will call the beautiful game soccer.

16 июн. 2023 г. · Because back in antiquity any game played on foot rather than horse back was known as football. American football in particular also has history ...

21 дек. 2022 г. · They called it football because you played it on foot, not horseback. Medieval football is vaguely similar to the sports it shares a name with ...