Eggball is stupid d/w it
Football > soccer.
When your country is the world leader and kills the head of a terrorist organization, then you can say what sport is cool.
I played football in 8th grade. The first two weeks is just tough conditioning to weed out the stupid kids that never exercise and think they are able to run a mile in less than 8 minutes. The rest is training.
BTW, if you suck at any basic abilities, i.e. throwing or catching the ball, don't expect to do anything important.