No, that is just the way sports people work.
As for soccer, yeah, it is a painfully dull American bastardization of what is one of the greatest sports, loved by people around the world. Unfortunately, people from the United States absolutely suck at it, so they made it a women's sport and renamed it soccer. Then, just to be non-conformist and confusing as Americans often are and give the rest of the world the middle finger, they decided to fall head over heels in love with a form of rugby, but they have to be pansies about it and play it decked out in full out body armor out of fear of getting booboos :( and then they call their little padded rugby game "football" despite the fact that they rarely use their feet, rendering the name fairly nonsensical, and despite the fact that that name ALREADY BELONGED TO ANOTHER SPORT!!!