It's not about right or wrong. It's about triggering 7 billion people with one word.
What the fuck ever. These is exactly no one who calls soccer soccer that cares if your feels are triggered. But I would expect that kinda delicacy from the fans of a 'sport' whose 'athletes' flop around like grounded fish if a butterfly so much as farts in their general direction.
We care exactly as much as you do when you call eveyone in North American Americans, when there is exactly no continent called America and only ppl from the USA are called Americans.