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It’s called FOOTBALL, people… Repeat after me:
F – O – O – T – B – A – L
Sorry to interrupt, but I get angry everytime i see this stupid word “soccer”.
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> F – O – O – T – B – A – L
F – O – O – T – B – A – L – L
Sorry to interrupt, but I get angry everytime i see this stupid word “footbal”.
I agree with RaisedFist.
It is called Football and NOT Soccer.
In some parts of the world its called S O C C E R.
I get angry every time I see someone say its not this crazy word ‘soccer’.
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Edited 2008-05-23 05:13 UTC
What part of the world? the US?
Football is mainly a European sport and if Europe calls is Football, then soccer is a wrong term.
Edited 2008-05-23 17:27 UTC
yeah, US and Canada.
I believe soccer is normally viewed as a world sport and not a european sport.(most widely played sport in the world and such)
Since the article was probably written in the US(I’m just guessing), then ‘soccer’ is the correct term.
ooooh, and it turns out the term ‘soccer’ came from England.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer#Names_of_the_game
Edited 2008-05-23 22:14 UTC
So if the whole world calls it Football and only 2 countries call it soccer, it is correct to call it soccer because one of those two countries is the US?
Also regardless of where the term originated, FIFA calls the sport football hence that is the correct term.
Edited 2008-05-23 22:31 UTC
How about we’ll just agree that they’re both correct terms.
And I get angry when people from England (or people who take their cues from British English) don’t realize that’s where the word Soccer comes from, and have no idea what it means.
History lesson: Back in the day football meant both kicking, or carrying and grabbing/tackling. There was a range of playing styles. In 1863, the Football Association met to draft a comprehensive set of rules to prevent the disputes that using disparate styles produced.
The no carrying, kicking only game they settled on was known as Association Football (shortened to Soccer) to differentiate it from Rugby football.
Get this through your head: both variations were known as “Football.” In England, Association Football became dominant and took over the Football moniker while the other variation ended up having “football” dropped from the name and being simply Rugby.
In other countries like Australia, Canada and America, the carrying version was dominant, and took over the football moniker, while the kicking kind (Association Soccer) ended up having “football” dropped from the name and being simply Soccer.
So who the hell are you to tell me basically every major english speaking country but the UK picked the wrong version of Football to keep calling Football while giving the other one a different moniker to distinguish it? You call the carrying kind Rugby (as in Rugby Football) and I call the kicking kind Soccer (as in Association Football). Get over it.
Now if in whatever non English language someone happens to speak the word is literally “Foot” – “Ball” (as in German: Fußball), great, good for you. But the word has a history in English and when you mock or rail against large parts of the English speaking world without being aware of it you look like a twit.
Maybe you’d like to go back in time and explain to everyone playing the carry version of football that what they were doing wouldn’t really be considered football by people in non english speaking countries of the 21st century and they really shouldn’t have called it that. But they did, and that mixed up sport’s now differentiated decendents are divided between being called Soccer/Football or Football/Rugby depending on which version won out. Deal with it.
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TL;DR – People from England who hate the word “soccer”: you coined it, not us. Foreign language speakers: the word “football” has a history in english you obviously aren’t aware of (learn it before mouthing off) or prefer to ignore (in which case screw you).
Edited 2008-05-24 11:53 UTC
Many USians deliberately avoid using the term football and replace it with “soccer” as a form of cultural disrespect. The fact is association football arrived before American football and has the rightful claim to the name.
According to Wikipedia, Association Football was formed in the mid-19th century. Rugby Football was formed in the 18th century. So wouldn’t you say that Rugby has the rightful claim to the name ‘Football’??
Of the official sporting associations’ incarnations –
The Football Association – 1863
Rugby Football Union – 1871
Northern Rugby Football Union – 1895
So it would appear the FA arrived first …
“Cultural disrespect”? Like USian? Soccer is a perfectly acceptable word.
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Very funny. I can’t imagine his tears gave him any more grip either.