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hsrob on 26 November 2013
Seece said:
chocoloco said:
Seece said:
It's football, America can't lay rights to that name.

GAF and this site is dominated by Americans and Canadians so generally football is often assumed to be NFL. Aussies and New Zealanders seem to call it soccer as well.


That doesn't matter tho, the facts remain!

No, the fact of the matter is the word soccer was invented by the English to distinguish this sport from other kinds of football. Football being a descriptor for a range of sports using some combination of a foot and ball.

As such it is perfectly correct to call the sport either soccer or football or so says the Oxford Dictionary.  The advantage of the word soccer is that it is more specific and that's why it tends to be favoured in countries where there a number of popular sports that can be classified as football.



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walsufnir on 26 November 2013


Ronster316 on 26 November 2013

Football, yes, its proper name (afterall, you use your FOOT and the BALL) is the most popular sport in the world.

Nothing comes close to it.

American "football" should be called "hand-oval"

And uuurrrggghhh soccer should be a banned word.

Aussie rules "football" should be called "foot-hand oval"



Fifaguy360 on 28 November 2013
Marks said:
I'm laughing at the number of replies to do with you calling it soccer instead of football.

Regional differences, get over it you whiners. In North America it's soccer, in Europe it's football. You can't force a North American to call it football when they made this thread.


Lol I know. Idiots always have to ruin these threads with their senseless bickering.

Fun fact: The term soccer was coined by the British. They even have a popular British tv show in Britain called SOCCER AM. I bet they get hate mail all day saying "it's football, it's football!" from these jobless knuckle heads who have bricks for brains.



Seece on 28 November 2013
hsrob said:
Seece said:
chocoloco said:
Seece said:
It's football, America can't lay rights to that name.

GAF and this site is dominated by Americans and Canadians so generally football is often assumed to be NFL. Aussies and New Zealanders seem to call it soccer as well.


That doesn't matter tho, the facts remain!

No, the fact of the matter is the word soccer was invented by the English to distinguish this sport from other kinds of football. Football being a descriptor for a range of sports using some combination of a foot and ball.

As such it is perfectly correct to call the sport either soccer or football or so says the Oxford Dictionary.  The advantage of the word soccer is that it is more specific and that's why it tends to be favoured in countries where there a number of popular sports that can be classified as football.


What other type of foot + ball games are out there?? I'm genuinely interested to know.



 

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Fifaguy360 on 28 November 2013
hsrob said:
Seece said:
chocoloco said:
Seece said:
It's football, America can't lay rights to that name.

GAF and this site is dominated by Americans and Canadians so generally football is often assumed to be NFL. Aussies and New Zealanders seem to call it soccer as well.


That doesn't matter tho, the facts remain!

No, the fact of the matter is the word soccer was invented by the English to distinguish this sport from other kinds of football. Football being a descriptor for a range of sports using some combination of a foot and ball.

As such it is perfectly correct to call the sport either soccer or football or so says the Oxford Dictionary.  The advantage of the word soccer is that it is more specific and that's why it tends to be favoured in countries where there a number of popular sports that can be classified as football.

To add, full name of the sport is Association Football which turned to soccer as a shorthand reference. Rugby Football became Rugger. The Brits have a habit of putting -er to a truncated name to substiute as a colloquial term.



Fifaguy360 on 28 November 2013
Seece said:
hsrob said:
Seece said:
chocoloco said:
Seece said:
It's football, America can't lay rights to that name.

GAF and this site is dominated by Americans and Canadians so generally football is often assumed to be NFL. Aussies and New Zealanders seem to call it soccer as well.


That doesn't matter tho, the facts remain!

No, the fact of the matter is the word soccer was invented by the English to distinguish this sport from other kinds of football. Football being a descriptor for a range of sports using some combination of a foot and ball.

As such it is perfectly correct to call the sport either soccer or football or so says the Oxford Dictionary.  The advantage of the word soccer is that it is more specific and that's why it tends to be favoured in countries where there a number of popular sports that can be classified as football.


What other type of foot + ball games are out there?? I'm genuinely interested to know.

aussie rules which has other variations of itself.

rugby league

rugby union

gaelic

futsal



avais1993 on 28 November 2013

I cant embed, but maybe you need to experience a more beautiful side of football

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Zkr4mQjks



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Marks on 02 December 2013
Fifaguy360 said:
Marks said:
I'm laughing at the number of replies to do with you calling it soccer instead of football.

Regional differences, get over it you whiners. In North America it's soccer, in Europe it's football. You can't force a North American to call it football when they made this thread.


Lol I know. Idiots always have to ruin these threads with their senseless bickering.

Fun fact: The term soccer was coined by the British. They even have a popular British tv show in Britain called SOCCER AM. I bet they get hate mail all day saying "it's football, it's football!" from these jobless knuckle heads who have bricks for brains.


Haha yeah I was like 90% sure it was the Europeans themselves that came up with the term soccer, I didn't want to mention that without checking first. So Europeans shouldn't get mad when one of the biggest football/soccer countries in the world came up with the term. 



MikeRox on 02 December 2013
think-man said:
ghettoglamour said:
think-man said:
ghettoglamour said:
Yeah it's much better to watch a sport where 75% of the time the game is paused and they don't get to play more than a couple of seconds in a row.


What sports that?


American football.

Oh, whered that come from lol I was talking about rugby.


Which Rugby? League or Union?

Rugby League was invented just down the road from me ^_^

Personally I prefer Football/Soccer though, it's just more exciting to watch and a lot less slowed down by rules.



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