Football or Soccer???

Football or Soccer???

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YellowFever2007-06-13 10:28:48

its football.. Always has bin in my mind since moving from scotland two years ago

Football - you use your feet predominantly. Soccer just grates.

what bout fooccer?

where did soccer come from anyway?

Soccer.

Football

soccer came from 'association' as in the UK they had the associated football and Rugby Football.
The US didnt want to confuse football (gridiron) and football soccer so took the british slang for football soccer.

thank you very much for that

all good 

soocer fa me always will be.

This issue really frustrates me being and living as an Australian. Very few people acknowledge that years ago the official name changed from "soccer" to "football", as did the name of the governing board (FFA). A lot of mates argue with me that it will always be soccer and Australian Rules will be football, despite the fact these days that game uses hands more than feet. And it's only been around for a century.

The Americans may never understand the idea, but it's always the original 'football'. Soccer just sounds like something a pedo does to another pedo in a public toilet block.

Be happy you all live in a country that's trying to call it football.

To me its always been soccer I played in a "soccer" team at school not a football team. Football is very english, i have no problem with it being called either. Its still the same game. "O Jogo Bonito" "The beautiful game" is a pretty good name too.

football... soccer sounds horrid, just like the idea of calling Rugby, League, Aussie Rules (stoopidest sport ever), Gridiron (second stoopidest sport ever) football.  Gridiron and league are the worst, you just about never kick the funny shaped ball.

Soccer sounds derogatory, prefer Football but people always respond, Soccer?

Yeah I know what you mean. Because most of the game is about running and passsing with your hands. But, there still is a bit of kicking in both, still how is it football?

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I call it football...cos you use your feet and there is a ball.

I used to read Famous Five books. All I remeber was there was girl called Georgina but she hated that name so everyone had to call her Georgie. She was a tomboy and quite clearly a lesbian too. 

Since i was raised in the states either one will do me, i dont see why some people blow their lid when people call it soccer.

Because thats just the yank name for it, and its stupid we've adopted it. Everyone else in th world calls it football apart from the yanks who want to be different (suprise suprise).

Can't copy the Yanks, but it's cool to copy the poms?

football will do, soccer is for the yanks!

So why is there a show on English Sky channel, called SoccerAM? (good show by the way, wish we got it here!!!)

Also growing up the English highlights package we used to get was "Big League Soccer".

Definitely football for me too, always has been, always will be, but let's have a little perspective before we give the Americans too much of a hard time.

Alot of Kiwi's refer to American Football as Gridiron yet there is no such sport. Gridiron is the name of the field that Americans play Football on since it is laid out in the form of a Gridiron (a sort of grill used for cooking).

Always has been football in most parts of the world, is currently football, and should remain football.

I have also heard people call it round-ball.  I like this one also.....

Foot to ball.

Foot-aaahhhhhh!

It's played with feet so let me think - oh Football.

Basketball is played with the hands but mentions nothing about hands, gold is played with the hand but mentions nothing with hands, rugby - feet, waterpolo - hands.

Yah Football !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yah Soccer doesn't quite have the same impact really.

its football for me i grow up playing soccer but its football now.

Im hearing football more and more out there... All good.

had an old english coach when i was a kid who used to yell at us if we called it soccer.
"you little bastards forget that stupid american crap...Its football"
This was usually followed by shuttles...

Disco mart,