Streamer instantly regrets roasting viewers in Football vs Soccer debate Twitch streamer erobb221 threw his hat into the eternal soccer vs. football debate and was almost immediately owned by Google after trying to prove to chat he was right. Erobb is a fairly popular streamer on the platform with more than 150,000 followers, but he opened a can of worms during a recent stream when he tried to claim that the most popular sport in the world is actually called \u201csoccer\u201d not \u201cfootball\u201d. For anyone outside of the U.S. it\u2019s called football, but in the states \u201csoccer\u201d is the go-to term because another massively popular sport is already called football. Why did erobb start this debate? In an attempt to prove Twitch chat wrong, erobb insisted that the game\u2019s official name was soccer and he was confident he would have the data to back it up. \u201cFootball dumbass? Actually I\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s called soccer, dipshit\u201d the streamer told chat. \u201cIt\u2019s called fucking soccer. Alright, actually, let\u2019s Google.\u201d Erobb took his question to Google, confident the internet would prove him right, and Twitch chat wrong \u2013 but at first it did neither. \u201cWhat is the sport called where you kick the ball?\u201d erobb typed into the search bar. \u201cSpeedball? No, \u2018into a goal.\u2019\u201d Finally, Google came up with the sport erobb was looking for and it seemed at first that the streamer had been vindicated. \u201cSoccer, the sport of Soccer, see? Idiots, Google is right, you\u2019re wrong,\u201d erobb proudly told chat, before reading on. \u201cCalled football in most of the world,\u201d he read with a laugh. \u201cI should have read forward a little bit, nevermind.\u201d Erobb was streaming during prime EU hours though, and the Euro-dominated chat wasn\u2019t about to let him live his claim down. \u201c\u2018You\u2019re an ignorant American\u2019, how am I ignorant?\u201d erobb asked. \u201cI forgot that I\u2019m on EU time so I\u2019m getting ganged up on, I don\u2019t have my NA boys with me.\u201d Erobb may have been proven wrong, but the soccer vs. football debate probably won\u2019t die out with his discovery. What is interesting though, is that the term \u201csoccer\u201d seems to have come from Britain, and not the U.S. originally, according to University of Michigan professor Stefan Szymanski. The word \u201csoccer\u201d is believed to have originated in Britain around 200 years ago to distinguish the sport from Rugby Football, but the Brits eventually moved on from the term while it remained popular in the states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Streamer instantly regrets roasting viewers in Football vs Soccer debate Twitch streamer erobb221 threw his hat into the eternal soccer vs. football debate and was almost immediately owned by Google after trying to prove to chat he was right. Erobb is a fairly popular streamer on the platform with more than 150,000 followers, but he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}