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The governing body for all football (or soccer) world wide - is FIFA - (Federal International Football Association).
FIFA in English stands for the Federation International Football Association, the governing body of soccer/football, futsal and beach soccer.
The Federation Internationale de Football Association is more commonly called FIFA.
FIFA is the governing body of international football game (International Federation of Football Association.)
The highest governing body in world soccer is the International Football Association Board, or IFAB. The IFAB are the custodians of the seventeen Laws of the Game, and meet annually to discuss proposed updates to the Laws and other matters that impact the world of soccer on the highest levels. The IFAB is composed of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA, the largest soccer association in the world) and the four pioneering soccer associations in the UK: England's Football Association (the FA), the Scottish Football Association (SFA) the Football Association of Wales (FAW), and the Irish Football Association (IFA) of Northern Ireland.
Soccer originally came from England while a few teenagers were mucking around in a college football match.A game played in the streets in England in which players were allowed to use any part of the body, including feet and hands, to take the ball from one side to the other. From this game derived Soccer, Football, and Rugby.
No. The GAA is the governing body of the sports of Gaelic Football and Hurling, as well as a number of other sports. The Football Association of Ireland runs soccer in Ireland.
The official name for football is of course football.The football association is where the nicknames assoc or socca come from, as rugby union is often called rugger. These are nicknames and not the official names.YesAnswerSoccer is another name for Association football. The word Soccer started as a phonetically abbreviated vernacular word for Association football coined by English public school students who took the 'soc' from 'Association' and put an 'er' on the end. The same students called Rugby football 'Rugger' but this word has largely fallen out of use. Typically 'an Oxford University student who played Association football and Rugby football' would be described as "an Oxforder who plays Soccer and Rugger". This is why prior to 1863 the word Soccer did not exist.
I am a lover of all sports and can appreciate that in most parts of the world they call Soccer Football. It really annoys me however that Fifa the governing body of Soccer is trying to change Australian sporting culture buy trying to make Aussies say football, when referring to Soccer. I encourage all Australians to keep calling Soccer Soccer. How dare they try and change the Australian vocabulary. In Australia the term football is used to describe Australian Rules football and Rugby League, not Soccer.
soccer/football not american fooball
No. In Australia, the term "Football" [colloquially "footy"], mainly refers to the Australian football game, also called, "Aussie Rules". Even in the two states that play much more rugby than Australian football, they do not reference soccer with the word 'football' - the 150+ year tradition within Australia has therefore long been to be speaking of either Australian football or one of the rugby codes - 'league or union' when football is mentioned. The only change that has occurred is that the major soccer / "association football" league in Australia has changed its own lead name from "Soccer" to include the word "Football", but certainly, neither the general populous, nor the culture as a whole refers to soccer by the term football. The chief governing body of Australian Football has long been named, "The Australian Football League". The true name of the soccer brand of football, by the way, is actually "Association Football".
Fédération Internationale de Football Association commonly known as FIFA is the governing body of almost every football league across the world and is in charge of international competitions.