Football or Soccer???

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almost 19 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

"Soccer" is unique, unmistakable, not able to be confused with anything else.

Unfortunately, depending on context/culture, "football" could mean:

thugby
thugby league
gridiron
aussie rules
Gaelic football
etc

football tragic for too long

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almost 19 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Antz, you forgot Sepak Takraw.

s2art2007-06-18 21:47:38

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almost 19 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

There's some history behind why gridiron (american or canadian) football is called football but i don't really know the details and don't want to make a fool of myself by telling you all some urban legends that I'm somewhat familiar with. I'm sure wiki has a good proper explanation of it.

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almost 19 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

football.

end of story.

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
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almost 19 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Football is a bit too stop start for me, and overly structured. Soccer has more fluency. It's a better game. I don't think football will ever catch on.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

no brainer really!!

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

FOOTBALL

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I live in Canada and so it's always been soccer for me. Mainly because when I say football, I always have to follow up with, um I mean soccer... or they think I mean the stupid ass sport where the men have to stop every few feet, I guess to take a breather?? lol.

~Les

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Football, Cannot be anything else really.

Wellington Phoenix FOOTBALL Club.

Not ..Wellington phoenix SOCCER Club.

Same with every other team in the world.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Soccer comes from way back when it all started. Upper class english teams used to have Assoccer like assoc. on the end of there name instead of Footbal Club. In the states it was called football up untill after WW2.But american football was more popular so they decided to use soccer(Assoccer)

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

just hang on a mo "what a wast of breath for all of them "soccer" fans it is called "FOOTBALL"

omg!! people what is going on please advice!!

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

ITS FITBA EVERYBODY KENS THAT!!

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

It's football. My eleven year old daughter is quite militant about it, firmly correcting anyone who uses the term soccer

Personally I think the coolest word for the game is calcio, but I can;t see it catching on.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

It's always been soccer to me and it was always called that when I played it. If I don't say football people get all uppity though.

It's the same f**king game - who cares what it's called? Don't understand it.

a.haak

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

The name of the beautiful game is football - when I came to NZ 2 years ago I wondered what on earth this soccer game people mentioned was!

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Forgive me upbringing, but when I think football I think...CFL. Canadian Football. Like American, but better. Maybe I should just be neutral and go with my Italian ancestry and call the sport calcio. FORZA PHOENIX!

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Kiwi Jambo wrote:

ITS FITBA EVERYBODY KENS THAT!!

What he said

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Football most of the time. The 'S' word dose comes out sometimes.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

FOOTBALL

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Same sh*t, different day.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Footy--- we aren't yanks!!! (No 'Beckham Cam' here...)

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Soccer.

It's an English word, invented by Englishmen and fits pefectly in our culture. We already have a wildly more popular sport called football over here.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

El Bombero451 wrote:

Soccer.

It's an English word, invented by Englishmen and fits pefectly in our culture. We already have a wildly more popular sport called football over here.

Football means the round ball game, thorought the world (and unlike rugby - which came after footbal; when as we all know someone called W. Webb-Ellis, who couldn't play football and went to a poncy private school, cheated and picked the ball up)

the game of rugby might just have to get used to a new wildly popular sport called football, rugby can just call itself rugby ( we've got the world, and we are getting the word back!!)

historically we are 2-0 down, but that is oh so doable for the NIX!!!

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I call it football too, and it grated on me the other day when I heard that knobhound Beckham referring to it as soccer... but hten I guess he is just pandering to his sponsors by doing so.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Marknz wrote:

I call it football too, and it grated on me the other day when I heard that knobhound Beckham referring to it as soccer... but hten I guess he is just pandering to his sponsors by doing so.

Beckham no doubt still loves fotball, but he also loves the almighty dollar

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

FOOTBALL you use your foot it makes sense really

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

tigers wrote:

Marknz wrote:

I call it football too, and it grated on me the other day when I heard that knobhound Beckham referring to it as soccer... but hten I guess he is just pandering to his sponsors by doing so.

Beckham no doubt still loves fotball, but he also loves the almighty dollar

yeah he said in an interview a while back that it will always be football to him but "whilst in rome"

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I find it interesting, and a bit humorous to see people getting upset about what people should call the game. Maybe instead of calling it soccer, we should adopt the Italian word for the game and Anglicize it . . . we'll call it KICK!

Nah, we'll stick with soccer.

El Bombero4512007-08-28 13:05:50

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Marknz wrote:

I call it football too, and it grated on me the other day when I heard that knobhound Beckham referring to it as soccer... but hten I guess he is just pandering to his sponsors by doing so.

I suppose he also does it so that the Americans (now his major fanbase) will understand what he's talking about

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

robbwatson wrote:

I suppose he also does it so that the Americans (now his major fanbase) will understand what he's talking about

I'd say that's pretty much correct.

Playing off my Italian joke above, if we did call the game Kick, Becks would too no doubt.

The Americans playing in the EPL call the game football with the English press, but call it soccer back home. It's not really that big of a deal.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Marknz, is Becks a "knobhound" because

a) hes better lookin than you
b) makes more money than you
c) hits a free kick better than you
d) scored a goal against a club you support
or
e) has a better lookin mrs than you

which one is it?!! Who cares what we call it! its "The Beautiful Game"

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Barber21 wrote:

Mmm, fair call...

a) no
b) yes, no doubt about that
c) no
d) he may have, not sure
e) definately not

And I care what we call it... it's football.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

well just for you i'm gonna keep calling it soccer only becoz

a) ur better lookin than becks
b) ok so his money is ridiculous (can't argue that one)
c) u hit a better freekick than becks? FIFA or PES doesnt count!
d) fairly irrelevant
e) i'll be the judge of that

thanks for playing! we'll see you all next week on "Spot the Knob Jockey" - Im Mr. Barber, GOODNIGHT!

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

FOOTBALL....NFL should be the national GRIDIRON league..... soccer sounds terribly yank

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I left the old country many years ago but if my memory serves me right it was called FITBA end of story!!

CelticFC wrote:

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

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Im pretty sure New Zealand was the last country to change from Soccer to Football.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I have grown up always calling it Soccer (for the fact that I didn't know any better), though of late I'm trying to train myself to call it football all the time, I have the occasional slip up. It is annoying though whenever I talk to yanks about it I've got to go football (soccer) at least the first time I mention it.

No other game that calls itself 'football' is purely focused on hitting a ball with your foot, so why do they try to steal the name? They could call it 'handball' - I know that's also a sport over in Europe but its less widely played at least. Too late now, at least in NZ its not so hard to make people recognize that we're referring football since rugby has always been rugby first and foremost.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Thankfully, the NFL won't change it's name. And it's funny to see the word soccer seen as a Yank term, when clearly it's not.

Truth of the matter my new Kiwi friend is that most Yanks think soccer should be called . . . kickball, because its a great kids game which both girls and boys can play at the same time. Football is a man's game, soccer isn't football.

As a former gridiron player myself (with the knees, ankles and stiff joints to prove it), I couldn't disagree more with those sentiments, but truth be told none of us footy fans here are upset with the use of the name soccer. We love soccer and we love our football too . . er, I mean gridiron ball. Soccer is great, but this is the USA and football is king.

The fact that Australia and NZ are in a mad rush to change everything soccer to football is great I guess. But it won't fly here, and IMHO, it shouldn't.

Though I do get a chuckle from the Aussies I know who bash the word soccer mercilessly, but whose NT is still called The Socceroos. LOL!