In Finland we call it to jalkapallo.
jalka=foot
pallo=ball
[QUOTE=Second-gear-of-mgear;23042365]It's like you British Peeps calling Cookies, Biscuits. I don't like it. :saddowns:[/QUOTE]
Cookies exsist in Britain we just dont call every biscuit a cookie.
[QUOTE=geogzm;23077486]this is how it was
[b]football originated in england why would you call a game where you use your hands on the ball football[/b][/QUOTE]
why does it matter so much to you?
[QUOTE=geogzm;23077486]this is how it was
[b]football originated in england why would you call a game where you use your hands on the ball football[/b][/QUOTE]
But isn't England terrible at the sports it invented? From my knowledge the Australians beat you at cricket, South Africa/New Zealand/ beat you at rugby, and Germany beats you at soccer (:smug:)
Everyone in this thread is retarded.
The NFL isn't going to change their name because a group of english kids going through puberty don't like it.
The MLS isn't going to change their name either.
Unless you watch the sports regularly you shouldn't have a say on anything in this thread.
[QUOTE=Terawattz;23041869]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Soccer_football.png
Also learn how to read news articles.[/QUOTE]
It varies by region in Australia and Canada.
ITT: Sources that show the term "soccer" being the first and English-originated term for the game. Children still saying "Fuck you it's football because I refuse to be wrong"
[QUOTE=Vandl92;23082658]ITT: Sources that show the term "soccer" being the first and English-originated term for the game. Children still saying "Fuck you it's football because I refuse to be wrong"[/QUOTE]
It's football because that's what almost every country apart from America learns in school.
[QUOTE=paul simon;23082889]It's football because that's what almost every country apart from America learns in school.[/QUOTE]
No, it's soccer because that's what I learned in school.
[QUOTE=paul simon;23077548]This map is bullshit.
We (Norway) say "Fotball".[/QUOTE]
No, the map isn't bullshit. It's english speaking countries.
football is automatically better than rugby because it has real men like jared allen
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[QUOTE=iusehax;23041359]Rugby players rip the shit out of American footballers tbh pussy padding[/QUOTE]
ya but if you put two against eachother then the football player would win because he has steel plate and resin armor
[QUOTE=geogzm;23062501][B]Americans called it Soccer.[/B]
[B]It is football.[/B][/QUOTE]
Some people call it soccer, other people call it football. Everyone is going to have their own way of saying it, what is the point of arguing over it? I thought football/soccer was supposed to bring people together, not divide them, especially because there is a World Cup on right now.
I believe that the literal meaning ( foot to ball )
is better than taking 3 letters out of some word which said in almost 140 years ago.
[b]toe-may-toe
tu-ma-toe
[/b]
[QUOTE=dookster;23090616][b]toe-may-toe
tu-ma-toe
[/b][/QUOTE]
My grandma pronounces "taco" like "tah-ko" instead of "taw-ko".
I find it hilarious.
It's elementary.
Originally it is called football, America made their own sport and called it such.
Seeing as the name was taken, they needed a new name to call Europe's sport.
Soccer. They called it soccer.
Which is better? Which is safer? Better question; who gives a flying fuck?
They're two separate sports in two separate continents with two separate cultures.
Get. Over. Yourselves.
[QUOTE=Hemorrhoid_Man;23090449]I believe that the literal meaning ( foot to ball )
is better than taking 3 letters out of some word which said in almost 140 years ago.[/QUOTE]
The literal meaning is that you played the sports on foot (whereas upper class citizens played sports on horseback). Nearly every sport from that era was football
[QUOTE=Idi Amin;23089627]ya but if you put two against eachother then the football player would win because he has steel plate and resin armor[/QUOTE]
But if the two of them were just wearing street clothes the American would have his head kicked in.
Us Australians call it Soccer as well, for we have the real man's Football: AFL. Wikipedia it, it puts American Football to shame.
[QUOTE=The Salmon;23123993]Us Australians call it Soccer as well, for we have the real man's Football: AFL. Wikipedia it, it puts American Football to shame.[/QUOTE]
I hear you PUNCH the ball.
The pads that American football players wear allows them to hit much harder than rugby players.
In Norway we call football fotball. :downs:
[QUOTE=Spetzaz;23124800]In Norway we call football fotball. :downs:[/QUOTE]
lol norway has bad spelling
Following the story in the OP, the origin is still "football" and the association later called it "soccer".
Technically, the Brits are still right.
[QUOTE=Killuah;23129166]Following the story in the OP, the origin is still "football" and the association later called it "soccer".
Technically, the Brits are still right.[/QUOTE]
Technically, rugby is football as well.
Why do people even care whether someone calls it football or soccer.
:sigh:
America is a different country, they can call it what they want, in the US they call it Soccer, in England, they call it Football, In China, they call it 足球.
Who cares.
Okay,
I'm still going to say football.
I always thought we just liked being different. Huh.
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I'm still calling it time to play with sweaty men knowing later we'll all be naked in a group shower
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