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This is But Why, a podcast for curious kids from Vermont Public Radio. I'm Jane Lenthal.

Every episode we take one of the questions that you asked and we find someone cool to

answer it. Today's question is about sports, but really it's more about language and culture.

Hey, trust this one, yeah, trust it.

Do you hear that sound? Do you know what it is?

It's the sound of a bunch of football players practicing. Oh wait, I said football.

In the rest of the world, that would be right. But if you live in the United States, you

probably call it soccer. Well, one of you wondered why.

My name is Kayla. I have seven years old and I live in culture to Vermont. My question

is why soccer culture is said to be called football?

Well, okay, this is David, say the men's soccer coach down at Middlebury College in

Middlebury, Vermont. And I'm really happy to be talking to you today. It's a really interesting

question because so many people around the world play the game of football. What happened

with the word soccer and football? It goes back to the 1800s when the game was developed.

And there were two groups of people in Britain who got together to set the rules of two

different games, one that was known as rugby football and another that was known as association

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