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Poll Question: what is your favourite of these four sports,
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Points: 19535 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2012 at 12:55
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

Of course my favorite sport to watch and play is Football (I can't stand that silly name soccer).



Soccer is a totally legitimate word for the game of Association Football.

Nobody in the whole world except in USA (So they not collision with their Football) or Canada calls it soccer OFFICIALLY....Puerto Rico has the Football Federation, but they call their tournament Soccer league, already FIFA has warned them.

The name is FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION, soccer is nothing, just an invention of USA to avoid collision with their Football

The term Football is used in 

1.- Latin America
2.- Europe (Except Italy where it's called Calcio)
3.- Asia
4.- Africa (Except Southt Africa that uses soccer  but not officially and Football  Association officially)
5.- Caribbean countries
6.- Oceania : Australia uses Soccer but not officially, their league is called FOOTBALL LEAGUE New Zealad used Soccer but considered the name inappropriate an started to call it Football in 2006 and called Rugby as Footy

Really the only two countries that use Soccer officially are USA and Canada.

I still consider it invalid

Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

What I read is that the word soccer comes from 19th century England, so that should settle it.

[Well... It was a wise man on an internet forum saying this, it must be right. He seemed very knowledgeable on the issue.]

It was used casually to differentiate it from the Rugby and Gaelic Football league, but officially and uinofficially it's called Football.

Iván




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The word Soccer is indeed an old English invention, along with Rugger (Rugby), Footer (Football), Brekkers (Breakfast), Shampers (Champagne), Twickers (Twickenham), Beckers (David Beckham)... and with all those words, it is associated with snooty public school boys and Oxbridge hooray-henrys, hence not much liked by "ordinary" Englishmen.
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is the word soccer a cockney slang word or just a slang word??

edit: i read the last thing you wrote, oxbridge words, accademics making slang words or shartedged words for long complicated words


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Ivan

Here is an example of a British football programme



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No.   I also believe it is a shartedged word.
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Fodbold fo shizzle...
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fotball for the word, i also like kurvball, but it is rarely shown on Norse television, but i love playing some street basket :), 
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Street basket? Is that shopping?
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Street basket? Is that shopping?


It's slang for one those people that walk around naked in the big cities during the winter and say stuff like: I was originally raised on Pluto.
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Street basket

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2053/2395980331_72cdc59e3f.jpg

instead of 5, you got 3 players, half the playing field, (one basket), more rougher and physical, on concrete fields so you need good sneekers and sun lotion

i have played it many times and sucks hard at it, but i have done some incredible 3 points, actualy
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Ivan this is an example of a British football programme


Well, read my post said officially 

1.- This is the official site of Football Association in the UK


2.- This is the BBC


3.- The same Sky Sport (you posted) seccion about Football is:


5.- This is the description of the Premiere League:

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The Premier League is the organising body of the Barclays Premier League with responsibility for the competition, its Rule Book and the centralised broadcast and other commercial rights.

However, we do not operate in isolation, instead we work proactively and constructively with our Member Clubs and the other football authorities to improve the quality of football both in England and across the world. Here is who we work with:

The Member Clubs of the Premier League

The Premier League is a private company wholly owned by its 20 Member Clubs who make up the League at any one time. Each individual club is independent: working within the rules of football, as defined by the Premier League, The FA, Uefa and Fifa as well being subject to English and European law.



Dean also mentioned something.:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

The word Soccer is indeed an old English invention, along with Rugger (Rugby), Footer (Football), Brekkers (Breakfast), Shampers (Champagne), Twickers (Twickenham), Beckers (David Beckham)... and with all those words, it is associated with snooty public school boys and Oxbridge hooray-henrys, hence not much liked by "ordinary" Englishmen.


Iván


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Ermm 
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A day in court with Ivan. Evidence galore and quotes up the wazoo
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I'm  insensitive.


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Is this really necessary? 
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I'm a dickhead

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Oh Bondage, up yours!

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*sigh*

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Will you delete all those posts above please Dean. The ones I edited and the hidden one?


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But despite  Ivan's protests and dislike of the word. I restate..Soccer is a totally legitimate word outside the US
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