Football...
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Thread Topic: Football...
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I dunno I support man united :)
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Old thread but since its been resurrected, im gonna point out in answer to the original post, the term americans use is actually british.
In the 1860s, as in most of history- with records as far back as 1004 B.C.- there were quite a lot of football sports in existence being played popularly throughout the world and of course, England. Many of these sports had similar rules and eventually, on October 26th, 1863, a group of teams in England decided to get together and create a standard set of rules which would be used at all their matches. They formed the rules for Association Football, with the Association distinguishing it from the many other types of football sports in existence in England, such as Rugby Football.
The authentic language "slang" if you will, of the place and age found it popular to nickname things with the suffix "er". Thus rugby football became "rugger", and association football became "assocer" which quickly became just "soccer".
So yeah. Soccer is not an American term.
And football by the way is awesome, I've played every ball game you've heard of, every sport for gentlemen and hooligans, from boxing to hunting, and swimming to parkour. And let me tell you it's all a matter of taste.
Football is a strategy driven game with an element of savagery which appeals to men who enjoy both chess, and high contact sport. Its not stupid, just a matter of taste. -
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Lizzzziiieee NewbieI like basketball.2
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Soccer all the way!!!
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Soccer is an american term, it only used in america. In every other country the word sounds like football.
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According to sources, the term originated in Britain and has remained unchanged since our usage of it.
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Does it seriously matter thay much where they do and dont call ot soccer and futbol?
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Beyond about a dozen sentences? Not really.
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then why make a big deal of it?
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You've done parkour?
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Because my sentences were that dozen that mattered cf ;) try to keep up please
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