They call it football.
USATODAY.com – A worthy goal for soccer:
So, I hope the Lords of Soccer will consider revising their rules the way the Lords of Basketball altered theirs. Because unless something dramatic changes, homely Americans like me are going to have a hard time ever falling madly in love with “the beautiful game.”
Perhaps the rest of the world is happy with the game as it is and don’t care whether Americans fall in love with it or not. Despite the writer’s attempts to head off the “ugly American” label by twee jokes, he is the definition of the term.