History of United States and European Football

 A little history -

Have you ever wondered why

in the United States we call football "Soccer"

and have a separate game that we call "Football"?

In London in December of 1863,

they unified the rules of the European Football Association

in a game known as Association Football.

And on May 21st, 1904,

the Federation International Football Association (FIFA)

was formed to unify the sport.

Yet in the United States we adopted to

another European Sport known as Rugby.

Someone came up with the idea to pass the ball forward,

and a new sport was created known as American Football.

And this was first played inter-collegiately in 1869

at Rutgers University.

In 1920 in Canton Ohio with 10 professional teams the

American Professional Football Association was founded

and in 1922 it became known as the National Football Assocation.

And since we in America took the name of Football for our sport,

we used the slag name of European Assocation Football -

ASSOC for the name we called it

and later it became known as the slag name of SOCCER.

On April 5th, 1913, the United States European Football Assocation

was formed and that later became known as the

United States Soccer Federation (USSF).

And there is an historical "My Two Cents".