That which one buys a large screen television for...
Not to start a religious war or anything, but the definition above is for what we Americans call
SocceR.
FootBall is what they play in the
SuperBowl. :-) --
JimboWales
I suggest
AmericanFootball and EuropeanFootball
? as topics. :-) --
LarrySanger
Do non-Americans refer to Soccer as Soccer as well as
FootBall?
If so, we could change this page to simply be a pointer to AmericanFootball, SocceR, and AustralianFootball?.
I think AustralianFootball? is the same thing as RugBy?, but
I'm not an expert!
I have never heard of a
SportS called EuropeanFootball
?. I believe that Soccer is an North American term that has spread also to Australia. I think
EuropE, South America and AfricA
? uses the term
FootBall for what Americans call Soccer.
Do the following investigation yourself:
A quick Internet-investigation leads me to believe that UnitedStates, CanadA, AustraliA and NewZealand use the word Soccer and the rest of the world uses the word FootBall.
-- LinusTolke
Americans, when for whatever reason we speak about soccer as "football," in order to avoid confusion with the sport we call "football," call soccer "European football." Even
[Yahoo! UK] is determined to annoy you by calling it this.
Yahoo! UK - just as any other decent sports site - calls it European
FootBall in order to distinguish between
FootBall played in Europe and
FootBall played on other continents, eg. South America. I would like to remind my fellow Americans that
FootBall, by definition is played using one's feet, and not by holding on to it with your hands and running around like a headless chicken.
<em>Whoever wrote this deserves a round of applause, it made
me laugh out load</em>--JimboWales
And then enters the
[XFL] or
[XfL]
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