soccer

[persiantiger]

why dont u guys call it football like the rest of the world?

haha you are having a bad influence on the ******** haha they call it soccer too

peace

[Knave]

Why does the UK call it Football? (http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44679)

... or ...

The name Soccer (http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=55805)

... or ...

Why does the US call it soccer? (http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44537)

[ToddP25]

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[jamison]

GUEST: What are you supposed to be?

VENKMAN: We're the exterminators. Somebody saw a cockroach up on twelve.

GUEST: That's gotta be some cockroach.

VENKMAN: Bite your head off man. You goin' up?

GUEST: I'll catch the next one.

[Elninho]

Originally posted by persiantiger
why dont u guys call it football like the rest of the world?

haha you are having a bad influence on the ******** haha they call it soccer too

peace

So do the Irish, the Canadians, the Australians, and the New Zealanders.

What I want to know, is why you aren't getting on the Italians' backs for calling it calcio.

[persiantiger]

Originally posted by Elninho
So do the Irish, the Canadians, the Australians, and the New Zealanders.

What I want to know, is why you aren't getting on the Italians' backs for calling it calcio.

The irish call it football so do the italians , calcio is the name of their league.

[SABuffalo786]

Originally posted by persiantiger
The irish call it football so do the italians , calcio is the name of their league.


I thought they call it Serie A.

And the Irish call it soccer.

:rolleyes:

Wang.

[Elninho]

Originally posted by persiantiger
The irish call it football so do the italians , calcio is the name of their league.

WRONG! "Calcio" is Italian for "kick". Look at the following Italian-language article:

http://www.kwsport.kataweb.it/KwAzzurri/Articolo/0,5550,113-6931,00.html

"...dico che l'Italia di Zoff sta giocando un ottimo calcio."
Translation: ...I say that the Italy of Zoff is playing optimal soccer.

Are you going to claim that the Italian national team plays an optimal Serie A, whatever that means?

http://www.aasfn.sm/2000/italiano00/filatelia00/mondialicalcio_it.htm

Hmm. References to the "Mondiali di Calcio". Same thing... World Cup of Serie A, or World Cup of Soccer?


Or consider what the AC in AC Milan stands for. It's Associazione di Calcio.


If the Italians call the game football, then how do they spell it?

[Dr. Wankler]

Originally posted by persiantiger
The irish call it football so do the italians , calcio is the name of their league.

No, most Irish call "football" the game that non-Irish call "Gaelic football." To distinguish Association football from Gaelic football, they call Association football "soccer."

Oh, wait. I just saw the last clause in your sentence and have concluded that you are an idiot. Nevermind.

I'm starting to come around to the view that newbies shouldn't be allowed to start threads.

[SABuffalo786]

Originally posted by Dr. Wankler
I'm starting to come around to the view that newbies shouldn't be allowed to start threads.

Hear, hear. Especially ones named persiantiger.

[Excape Goat]

Originally posted by Elninho
So do the Irish, the Canadians, the Australians, and the New Zealanders.

What I want to know, is why you aren't getting on the Italians' backs for calling it calcio.

You forgot about the South Africans.... the British rugby fans also used the term soccer. That left a
miniority of English-speaking population around the world called the sport "football".

[rauld10]

There's a magazine from England called World Soccer. Soccer was used in the title to avoid confusion in countries like Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada and the U.S or some explanation like that.

[sch2383]

Does it really matter? Its the same f'ing sport.

[ttrevett]

Originally posted by SABuffalo786
I thought they call it Serie A.

And the Irish call it soccer.

:rolleyes:

Wang.

While I love the city of Buffalo (from Rochester, went to Med School at UB), I'm sorry I have to disagree about the Irish. Their USSF equivalent is the FAI, or Football Assn. of Ireland.

Tom

[SABuffalo786]

Originally posted by ttrevett
While I love the city of Buffalo (from Rochester, went to Med School at UB), I'm sorry I have to disagree about the Irish. Their USSF equivalent is the FAI, or Football Assn. of Ireland.

Tom

Well yes, formally they call it football, but they do throw in soccer sometimes, like someone said before, to differentiate from Gaelic football. When the Irish qualified for last year's World Cup, the banner they had from their sponsors said something to the effect of "We congratulate the Irish SOCCER team on qualifying for the World Cup."

[Richie]

The English were the first to use the name "soccer"

[Sonicspride]

Originally posted by persiantiger
why dont u guys call it football like the rest of the world?

haha you are having a bad influence on the ******** haha they call it soccer too

peace



Like "Football" is any different game to Soccer

[speedcake]

stupid, honoring that wonderful opening post with two pages of replies. Great, NOW look, I've gone and added my own 2 cents.

I could be easily swayed towards supporting that ban on newbie threads. Let the campaign begin.

[mojo_records]

i hear alot of mexicans saying 'soc a la' or something like that. and i believe it means kick it. could soc=kick be somehow related to the name soccer?
just wondering...

[ToddP25]

Originally posted by speedcake

I could be easily swayed towards supporting that ban on newbie threads. Let the campaign begin.

I am all for this idea......lets get the ball rolling