Rumour: 2K Could Be Partnering With FIFA On A New Football Game

A shame FIFA didn’t partner with an indie developer.

@nomither6 @Kidfunkadelic83 FYI the name "Soccer" was created by the English. A bit of history. "Football", as we Brits know it, was officially called "Association Football" to distinguish itself from "Rugby Football" and other "Football" games. The later got shortened to "Rugg-er" and the former "Assoc..." got shortened to "Socc-er". They were unofficial names, but what most called them in England, for a while at least around the start of the 20th Century.

While Rugger eventually just became "Rugby" it is still officially "Rugby Union Football" but commonly drops the "football" part of it's name, likely to avoid confusion and for brevity. Whereas "Association Football" dropped the first and is commonly known as "Football" now.

But the nickname "Soccer" stuck around as the game travelled around the world, which is why many countries in the world, not just the United States, still know it as Soccer. The more you know...

EDIT: "Football" in the USA was originally called "American Rugby Union Football", yes it was an offshoot of rugby, and is an abbreviation of "Gridiron Football" which it was renamed after Walter Camp and others set the new rules with lines of scrimmage, downs etc. It's now mostly known as "American Football" outside the States.

@Kidfunkadelic83 There have likely been hundreds of variations of "football" games over time. If you think about it it's a very generic term and has meant different things to different people over the ages... as it still does today.

Some predecessors of football go back to ancient Greece and Rome, and similar games have been found around the world including in Japan and China. In Britain it dates back to AT LEAST the eighth century. For a long time people just made up their own local rules.

It wasn't till 1863 and the forming of the Football Association and their "laws of the game" which laid out, for the first time, a strict set of rules to play by that what we know as "football" was solidified.

Now back to (video) games.