Soccer Vs Football Around The World

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Phuc Thien Minh Tran
ENG102
Professor: Tolbert
“Soccer Vs. Football Around the World”
Soccer and Football are two sports that people around the world always have misunderstood about. Football is mainly an American sport, but it is growing rapidly around the world. Soccer in the other hand is played worldwide.
Although soccer and football are similar because they are both famous sports. Soccer become more popular than football because football is more concentrated in US. Soccer players are famous all over the world and there are more audiences’ participation in soccer. There are many similarities of these two sports. In some parts of the world soccer is called as football. In many countries, soccer was called by different name

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