Gianni Infantino, president of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), is facing mounting pressure from the European football body (UEFA), after the latter informed him that he must step down from his position or face a vote of no confidence that could lead to his removal.
As I understand it, it was because they had multiple leagues of various types of football, and they were trying to differentiate soccer from the other leagues.
But the U.S. will immediately declare war on football, invade Switzerland, and rename the sport “soccer” once and for all…
The cheese will end up tasting bland and insipid, too…
/s, of course—fuck that orange pedo and his despicable minions anyway.
We didn’t name it soccer. That was the brits. Soccer just stuck over here.
Only because you already had that other sport where you thrown around the large egg.
As I understand it, it was because they had multiple leagues of various types of football, and they were trying to differentiate soccer from the other leagues.
It was “association football” as opposed to “rugby football”.