why dont u guys call it football like the rest of the world? haha you are having a bad influence on the japs haha they call it soccer too peace
Why does the UK call it Football? ... or ... The name Soccer ... or ... Why does the US call it soccer?
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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.
Re: Re: Re: soccer 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?
Re: Re: Re: soccer 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.
Re: Re: soccer 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".
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.
Re: Re: Re: Re: soccer 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
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: soccer 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."
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.
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...
Soccer of Football Here in Italy "calcio" is called both football and soccer, but soccer is preferred 'cause football could mistake for american football
That should be engraved into the foreheads of every dolt who whines about the football/soccer terms. Kevin
No. Call me anything you want, just don't call me late for dinner. On the same level of sophistication as the soccer/football debate is this: I'm rubber, you're glue. Anything you say... (you know the rest)