Originally Posted by CDSmith

I know this. I would hazard a guess that many here know this, BUT.... I call it soccer to avoid confusion, since this is a US-based/US-owned board and in the USA football is NFL football.... not world football.

And no slight to the British Empire, but the WSO stands for "World SOCCER Organization", not the world football organization. (Otherwise they would be known as the "WFO")

Fact is, people in N. America call it soccer, let's just leave it at that shall we?