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Why soccer should be referred to as football in America
by Tim Carter
Americans have referred to football as soccer in order to differentiate it from their own national sport, American Football. However, there does seem to be a lack of respect for the origins of the sport, Football and the fact that it was invented well before American Football.Nowhere else in the world is football referred to as soccer.It appears that American marketeers preffered to draw attention
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