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by nicholassmith 4943 days ago
Oddly in most of Europe it's 'football' as well, EUFA, IFA, Ligue de Football and so on, seems to be quite fractured depending on whereabouts in the world you are, and with the rise in people learning American English through TV/movies/etc I can see it becoming more popular to call it soccer.
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it's football in south america too ( FĂștbol,Futebol).

Maybe of interest:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football