Dyakovo wrote:Maurepas wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football#North_AmericaThe sport's governing body is the United States Soccer Federation; however it was originally called the U.S. Football Association, and was formed in 1913 by the merger of the American Football Association and the American Amateur Football Association. The word "soccer" was added to the name in 1945, making it the U.S. Soccer Football Association, and it did not drop the word "football" until 1974, when it assumed its current name. In 2005 the Major League Soccer team Dallas Burn changed its name to Football Club Dallas. In 2009 Seattle Sounders FC also adopted the affix FC, although the words Football Club do not appear in its name.
My point was that the wikipedia article you linked to is misleading. "Football" does not automatically refer to "gridiron football" in English speaking countries. In some it does and in others it refers to association football...
I think we're having two different interpretations of the article, it was saying that "Football" is generally used generically to refer to the code that is most popular in a given English-speaking country.
And of course, the real point to me quoting it at all, was to show that various levels of kicking are involved in the various Football codes,