I think you mean football.
Aussies are mixed on what we call it. The federal soccer/football governance agency is called 'Football federation Australia', and our national team is called the 'Socceroos'.So no, he means soccer. The fact that you knew what he meant to the point of being able to correct him just shows how pointless it is to try and correct him at all.
Americans and Australians are stupid in the regard of calling it soccer