Football is life for millions of fans around the world, but in two of the co-host nations of the 2026 World Cup, they tend to call it by a different name. In the US and Canada, it's known as soccer. But why? And does that word annoy other football-loving nations? "When I was a child in England, the word 'soccer' was perfectly acceptable," Stefan Szymanski says. The emeritus professor at the University of Michigan, who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, says the debate around "football" versus "