Why does American football is named “football” and football is named “soccer” in America ?

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Why does American football is named “football” and football is named “soccer” in America ?

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American football is basically a variant of Rugby football years ago which was called rugger to mark the difference between it and association football again called soccer to identify the game. Americans switched from the naming to American football rather than American rugby or American rugby football to emphasise both the American nature of the sport and it being different from rugby, then the shortened version of American football became football.