Football or Soccer

DLGGLD · #1 | Posted: 04/08/2012 00:52 | Post subject: Football or Soccer

What do you call the beautiful game?(Help settle a bet please)
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Hayden · #2 | Posted: 04/08/2012 01:11 | Post subject:

Soccer.

I seem to be the minority Embarassed

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purple · My Charts

I use both. If I'm discussing it with friends who know what they're talking about then I call it football; this is largely because the friends I talk to about football are usually from different nations who call it football. If I'm discussing it with an American that calls it soccer, then I call it soccer. I've found a couple times that I started talking about football, realized the person I was talking to was confused, and then switched to soccer.

harkan · #4 | Posted: 04/08/2012 01:32 | Post subject:

I usually call it soccer but yes, it should be football.

Most Aussies would call it soccer because either Aussie Rules Football or Rugby League/Union are the primary ball-sometimes-hit-with-foot sport in each state.
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YoungRapunzel · Joined: 07 Apr 2012 Posts: 7 Age: 24 My Charts

soccer, but only because i live in america. a name like "football" really does go a lot better with the game where players manipulate a ball with their feet rather than an oblong wedge with their hands. just sayin'. but i'm not picky.

Eggman/Walrus/Taxman · #6 | Posted: 04/08/2012 04:22 | Post subject:

Football. I've rarely heard anybody saying "Soccer" where I live.
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albummaster · #7 | Posted: 04/08/2012 07:41 | Post subject:

definitely football. In Spanish it's fútbol and a lot of other languages translate directly as well.

Bork · #8 | Posted: 04/08/2012 12:39 | Post subject:

If I am thinking about it I call it football. If I'm talking about it I generally refer to it as soccer for the same reasons as Purple. Contrary to popular belief in parts of Europe, though, people around here are generally aware of the soccer/football terminology dilemma. It's still fun to make fun of.

Norman Bates · #9 | Posted: 04/08/2012 14:44 | Post subject:

Around here it's 'football'. Or 'foot'.

Error Finn · #10 | Posted: 04/08/2012 14:47 | Post subject:

Football
Fußball (ger)
fútbol (spa)
calcio (ita)
voetbal (dut)
futebol (por)
football (fra)
футбол (rus)
futbol (tur)
ποδόσφαιρο (gre)
fotboll (swe)
fodbold (dan)
fotball (nor)
足球 (chi)
サッカー (jap)
फुटबॉल (hin)
كرة القدم (ara)
jalgpall (est)
jalkapallo (fin)

Björk plays football, not soccer. Laughing

Björk spilar fótbolta.
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