谁知道“Soccer and American football”这篇文章的中文意思，请在两小时内给我，O(∩_∩)O谢谢

What Americans call soccer is called football everywhere else in the world (football in British English and French, futbol in Spanish, fussball in German, etc.). There is in an international body governing this sport, so it's safe to say that American soccer and British football are exactly the same sport, even if attracts far more fans in Britain. :)

The official name of the sport is associative football. The international governing body that I mentioned above is referred to as FIFA, from the French "Federation Internationale de Football Associatif" (International Federation of Associative Football). It seems that at some point, "associative football" was abbreviated as "assoc," from which we somehow got the American version "soccer."

All this is complicated by the fact that America has its own game called "football," with helmets and touchdowns and such. This game is completely American, although the rest