Soccer vs football

[midlifecrisis 4,048]

After all they invented the word and until a few decades ago was interchangeable with the word football.

 

Have a read:

 

http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup...ball070110.html

 

I will give you a hint:

 

 

Clive Toye, an Englishman who moved to the U.S. and became known as the father of modern American soccer, bringing Brazilian legend Pele to play for the New York Cosmos, takes up the story.

 

“Soccer is a synonym for football,” said Toye, who helped launch the North American Soccer League in the late 1960s. “And it has been used as such for more years than I can count. When I was a kid in England and grabbed a ball to go out and play … I would just as easily have said: ‘Let’s have a game of soccer’ as I would use the word ‘football’ instead. And I didn’t start it.”

 

To trace the origin of “soccer” we must go all the way back to 1863, and a meeting of gentlemen at a London pub, who congregated with the purpose of standardizing the rules of “football,” which was in its infant years as an organized sport but was growing rapidly in popularity.

 

Those assembled became the founding members of the Football Association (which still oversees the game in England to this day). And they decided to call their code Association Football, to differentiate it from Rugby Football.

 

A quirk of British culture is the permanent need to familiarize names by shortening them. “My friend Brian Johnston was Johnners,” said Toye. “They took the third, fourth and fifth letters of Association and called it SOCcer. So there you are.”

[Obsession 571]

I don't think we do mind. It's up to you if you want to sound gay

 

I just found out this week that it's only in Scotland that a "throw in" is called a "shy". Feck knows why.

[midlifecrisis 4,048]

I don't think we do mind. It's up to you if you want to sound gay

 

I just found out this week that it's only in Scotland that a "throw in" is called a "shy". Feck knows why.

I always liked the term "the pitch" among other English terms related to soccer er football er

 

But have to wonder with you with the Scots would be "shy" about anything, hehe.

 

As to your first sentence please read the source article which I just pass on.

 

Me gay?

[atlas2 4,329]

We don't mind............ just having to remember everytime to translate to avoid confusion and change the name of our game to your name for our game.............And the suspension of all logic in doing so, in that, in your game of football, the ball is in contact with the foot for about... maybe 3 whole seconds. But there you are.........We're just happy you like football by that I mean soccer enough to discuss it.

[Ass Bandit 0]

Not only you yanks, us aussies also call it soccer.

 

To confuse it even more, the term football means different things in each state. In Queensland and New South Wales if you say you are going to the football it means you are going to rugby league.

 

In Victoria and some other states it means you are going to the aussie rules.

 

Jeez, now I've confused myself, I'm off for a few ales and a lay down.

[MM 6,562]

Some Canadians call the game soccer as well.

 

I heard South Africans do too.

 

What is it called in New Zealand?

 

How about Ireland?

 

I read that it's called soccer in more English speaking countries than it is called football.

 

The thing is, in every English speaking country, everyone knows what you mean when you say "soccer", but there is considerable confusion when you use the term "football", since that could be one of several games.

 

I've decided I'm going to stop calling it "football", after all.

[Owl_ 0]

Interesting! I thought the term soccer was used in the US for the most part. Now I'm learning that it is used in some other countries as well!

[Ass Bandit 0]

NZ it's called soccer. It's looking like if 'football' isn't the national game of choice then it's called soccer.

[Owl_ 0]

When I was in Rio de Janeiro around 2006, a friend of mine from Sweden mentioned to a us that we would be going to the football match Wednesday night, I knew we would be going to a soccer match. So my friends (two from Sweden and two from Finland) and myself, went to the Maracana Soccer Stadium located in Rio de Janeiro. So my thought was that people from Sweden refer to it as football! Here's a shot I took from our seats while we were there as we got there early.

 

 

It is reported that the Maracana Soccer Stadium is the largest soccer stadium in the world that easily seats 100,000 spectators and has been reported to hold over 200,000 during top events!

[harro1 256]

They should call it headball. Does anyother sport use their head? In fact does anyone in the world use their head to move anything other than their body?

[VicVegas 70]

I always call MY sport "American football" or "US football", because I know if I just call it "football" all the lovers of the game played with the "polka dot" ball will think I'm talking about THEIR sport. That's a verbal (or, in the case of the internet, a written) "gift" I give to them.

 

However, I get even by always calling THEIR sport "soccer", because I know they hate it.

[Tatanka 1]

That's so strange about "American Football" the egg shaped thingy is played with the foot less then 10%.

In contrary with "Football (soccer)" where the ball is played with the foot more then 90%.

 

By the way, a ball is round.

Edited July 2, 2010 by Tatanka

[harro1 256]

That's so strange about "American Football" the egg shaped thingy is played with the foot less then 10%.

In contrary with "Football (soccer)" where the ball is played with the foot more then 90%.

 

By the way, a ball is round.

 

Put your hand down your pants. Round?

[Tatanka 1]

Put your hand down your pants. Round?

 

 

Leave my jewels out of it

[Tarl 1]

Seems to be based on whatever is the major sport in the region you are in - as mentioned in Australia it depends what state your are in as to what sport is being referred to when someone says football. Since soccer is a relatively minor sport here no one refers to it as football.

[joekicker 53]

Some Canadians call the game soccer as well.

 

You can leave off "some". Pretty well all of them do. That's because football is a very big sport in Canada, even though it's 12 men and three backfielders can be in motion TOWARD THE LINE before the snap. Long before there was a Super Bowl, there was a Grey Cup, and Americans back then could only salivate. The Grey Cup was donated to Canada by the Fourth Earl Grey, because frankly English people admire North American sports like hockey (the Stanley Cup) and football better than English sports once they're exposed to them. So it seems, anyhow, by available evidence.

 

That said, in my experience, English people of the provincial sort get really upset and cannot keep quiet at two things -- not specifically that Americans call it soccer, but rather the mirror, that they call the American/Canadian sport loved by Earl Grey football. (They can't tell the difference between Americans and Canadians, the English; they're not good at accents at all). And the other thing is the World Series, Englishmen are totally incapable of silence on the World Series (just wait for proof of that).

 

Everyone needs an obsession or two. The Englishers have gridiron-football and the World Series. Other than that, a fine nation.

 

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[midlifecrisis 4,048]

Not only you yanks, us aussies also call it soccer.

 

To confuse it even more, the term football means different things in each state. In Queensland and New South Wales if you say you are going to the football it means you are going to rugby league.

 

In Victoria and some other states it means you are going to the aussie rules.

 

Jeez, now I've confused myself, I'm off for a few ales and a lay down.

I'm buying!

 

[midlifecrisis 4,048]

Interesting! I thought the term soccer was used in the US for the most part. Now I'm learning that it is used in some other countries as well!

Yes! A surprise for me too.

[midlifecrisis 4,048]

Everyone needs an obsession or two.

 

No one Obsession on this board is enough, thank you very much!!

 

[CheshireTom 1,377]

I always call MY sport "American football" or "US football", because I know if I just call it "football" all the lovers of the game played with the "polka dot" ball will think I'm talking about THEIR sport. That's a verbal (or, in the case of the internet, a written) "gift" I give to them.

 

However, I get even by always calling THEIR sport "soccer", because I know they hate it.

 

Not at all, Vic. Football isn't the only term you haven't got to grips with - we still get a good chuckle when you're boasting about getting blown by some black hooker.

 

 

 

[jacko 8,822]

Put your hand down your pants. Round?

If you want me to buy a round, get someone else to put their hand down my pants!

[VicVegas 70]

Not at all, Vic. Football isn't the only term you haven't got to grips with - we still get a good chuckle when you're boasting about getting blown by some black hooker.

 

The phrase is "come to grips with". Is this supposed to be an atttempt at humor? Very childish, especially after I let it look like you won the Jenny/Janie debate.

 

You're a strange bird CT. Sometimes you post clever stuff, then you turn around and post stupid shit like this.

[CheshireTom 1,377]

The phrase is "come to grips with".

 

Dearie me, Vic! You really don't have a grip of this English language thingy. I hope you're not marking your students wrong as well.

 

 

 

 

Is this supposed to be an atttempt at humor? ........

 

You're a strange bird CT.

 

Bird? Amy Winehouse is a strange bird. Get a grip on yourself, FFS!

Edited July 3, 2010 by CheshireTom

[Obsession 571]

Me gay?

 

No. But using the term "soccer" sounds gay to UK folk. In fact in Scotland, you have to say "fitba" , or your considered an ass bandit

[midlifecrisis 4,048]

No. But using the term "soccer" sounds gay to UK folk. In fact in Scotland, you have to say "fitba" , or your considered an ass bandit

Even though you invented the term and used it interchangeably until recently - per my op?