Ridiculous IGN FIFA 2010 review.

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TWRoO said:

Squilliam said:

darthdevidem01 said:

I just got a bit angry that he had the nerve to call FIFA not a football game but a soccer game & then say Madden is a football game.

The whole world except for america sees soccer as football & calls it that.

Madden isn't a football game, soccer isn't football either. Football is my national sport, but people in other countries call it Rugby.

This is confusing enough without adding in Oceanic variations on games.

American football is one game (usually just called football in USA/Canada)

Football is one game (called soccer in USA/Canada.... Aus/N.Z too?)

Rugby is another game (well 2 in reality, as there is League and Union rugby with different rules/number of players)

Then what we in the UK call Aussie rules football seems to be a (quite violent) cross between football and rugby, at least from what I know about it. I would guess this is what you are referring to but feel free to correct me.

I'm from Australia where we play all of the above sports and if someone other than an Australian says "football" i would assume they are talking about the one with 11 players a side and a round ball and i'd be right most of the time.

In Australia, football is Australian Rules Football, and because it is the more popular sport and for convenience the other football is called soccer.  The Americans have a similar situation with American Football or whatever it is they like to call it.

But as for Kiwis calling Rugby, football, that's kinda new to me.  Here, Rugby is usually in reference to the 15 man game and the 13 man version is just called League. Squill is referring to Rugby (Union).

Anyway before i confuse even more people i will go back to my original point and say that for most countries in the world (that don't have another popular form of ball sport played using the feet), football refers to the game played in FIFA.