Ok, you've got:
Association Football (Association -> assoc -> Soccer)
Australian rules football
Gaelic Football
North American Football (Breaks down into Canadian and American Football)
Rugby Football (Breaks down into Rugby League and Rugby Union)
They are all known as Football, as they're all played on foot, rather than sitting on horse playing something like polo
If you're in the US and you say Football, it means American Football, because that version of playing with balls while on foot is most prominent there.
In England, you'd mean Association Football.
In Australia, I'm sorry to say Jiro, you'd mean Australian rules football, because like it or not, it's the most popular here. Yes, it may differ regionally, but unfortunately Association Football doesn't trump any of the other codes...
As for saying Soccer, instead of Association Football, well it's simply a slang version of Association, so quit your whining!
And don't come at me with that 'people should call it by the name that the governing body of the code assigns it' nonsense, because it's just not popular enough in Australia for it to take the colloquial title of Football.
Originally Posted by Timekeeper
Ok, you've got:
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