Why do Europeans call that sport "football"?

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repaeR 2022 年 8 月 13 日上午 10:53

It's called soccer. Not football. Europeans are so weird.

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Protomesh 2022 年 8 月 15 日上午 2:41

引用自 Jade Strawberries：
I know that this is a bait thread, but I don't understand this obsession with Americans that Europeans have. I'm European myself and I don't mind the word 'soccer'.
Europeans always call Americans ignorant and uneducated, yet they ignore the fact that countries use different languages. Every country that speaks the same languages all have different variations of words and such.
It's a terrible sport anyway. Just a bunch of man babies pretending they got kicked in the leg so they can get their opponent dismissed. That, and it's boring.

say that in Brazil

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Tsubame ⭐ 2022 年 8 月 15 日上午 3:16

引用自 Protomesh：
引用自 Jade Strawberries：
I know that this is a bait thread, but I don't understand this obsession with Americans that Europeans have. I'm European myself and I don't mind the word 'soccer'.
Europeans always call Americans ignorant and uneducated, yet they ignore the fact that countries use different languages. Every country that speaks the same languages all have different variations of words and such.
It's a terrible sport anyway. Just a bunch of man babies pretending they got kicked in the leg so they can get their opponent dismissed. That, and it's boring.
say that in Brazil

I am from there and I fully agree with Jade, not just regarding the nomenclature, but the subjective tidbit at the end as well.

Also, I do not mind calling the sport soccer, especially since this term was coined by the British, and not the Americans.

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Enterprofilenamehere 2022 年 8 月 15 日上午 5:18

引用自 Jade Strawberries：
I know that this is a bait thread, but I don't understand this obsession with Americans that Europeans have.

I assume it's because of how strong U.S. cultural influence is and its economic power.

My mom's parents, who immigrated from England, often talked about certain American things with disdain; usually trivial things like football (the American version), pronunciations of words, etc. even though they moved to Canada, which isn't that different from the U.S.

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Dracoco OwO 2022 年 8 月 15 日上午 5:20

引用自 Jade Strawberries：
I know that this is a bait thread, but I don't understand this obsession with Americans that Europeans have. I'm European myself and I don't mind the word 'soccer'.
Europeans always call Americans ignorant and uneducated, yet they ignore the fact that countries use different languages. Every country that speaks the same languages all have different variations of words and such.
It's a terrible sport anyway. Just a bunch of man babies pretending they got kicked in the leg so they can get their opponent dismissed. That, and it's boring.

Tbh only Italians players pretend to be injured, well that used to be the case and i don't like either Football anyways.

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Enterprofilenamehere 2022 年 8 月 15 日上午 5:26

引用自 Dracoco OwO：
引用自 Jade Strawberries：
I know that this is a bait thread, but I don't understand this obsession with Americans that Europeans have. I'm European myself and I don't mind the word 'soccer'.
Europeans always call Americans ignorant and uneducated, yet they ignore the fact that countries use different languages. Every country that speaks the same languages all have different variations of words and such.
It's a terrible sport anyway. Just a bunch of man babies pretending they got kicked in the leg so they can get their opponent dismissed. That, and it's boring.
Tbh only Italians players pretend to be injured, well that used to be the case and i don't like either Football anyways.

If there's one thing I hate in sport it's flopping, and soccer is rife with it. Penalties are too severe, which encourages flopping. It's not the only reason I don't enjoy it though.

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crunchyfrog 2022 年 8 月 15 日上午 7:39

引用自 Jade Strawberries：
I know that this is a bait thread, but I don't understand this obsession with Americans that Europeans have. I'm European myself and I don't mind the word 'soccer'.
Europeans always call Americans ignorant and uneducated, yet they ignore the fact that countries use different languages. Every country that speaks the same languages all have different variations of words and such.
It's a terrible sport anyway. Just a bunch of man babies pretending they got kicked in the leg so they can get their opponent dismissed. That, and it's boring.

Well yes and no. Cuts both ways. This thrad is made the other way round.

Anywho, it's an OK sport. Personally, I dont; care for the man babies.

But I bloody loved out English ladies team this year winning the European Championship. They were ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ruthless (unless there was someon called Ruth playing of course).

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crunchyfrog 2022 年 8 月 15 日上午 7:39

引用自 Enterprofilenamehere：
引用自 Dracoco OwO：
Tbh only Italians players pretend to be injured, well that used to be the case and i don't like either Football anyways.
If there's one thing I hate in sport it's flopping, and soccer is rife with it. Penalties are too severe, which encourages flopping. It's not the only reason I don't enjoy it though.

Not so much anymore. video refeering has cut that down.

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YVIR 2022 年 8 月 15 日上午 7:58

There’s a ball that gets kicked around by the feet therefore football.

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𝕎𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕫 2022 年 8 月 15 日上午 7:58

引用自 repaeR：
Why do Europeans call that sport "football"?
It's called soccer. Not football. Europeans are so weird.

It's rather weird to call a sport football instead of handball if it's obviously almost exclusively played with the hands...¯\_

_/¯

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Enterprofilenamehere 2022 年 8 月 15 日上午 8:02

引用自 Wouselz：
引用自 repaeR：
Why do Europeans call that sport "football"?
It's called soccer. Not football. Europeans are so weird.
It's rather weird to call a sport football instead of handball if it's obviously almost exclusively played with the hands...¯\_:johnFace:_/¯

It's played on foot though. Also the name handball is already taken by another sport.

最后由 Enterprofilenamehere 编辑于; 2022 年 8 月 15 日上午 8:02

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Dagný 2022 年 8 月 15 日上午 8:08

引用自 d¢：
引用自 repaeR：
It's called soccer. Not football. Europeans are so weird.

The name "soccer" came from an amalgamation of words in an acronym, from Britain, pretty sure.

I don't know why they abandoned the term.

Ireland, the US had a huge influx of Irish immigrants and I'm sure one of the little impacts is the word soccer

examples

https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/

https://www.irishnews.com/sport/footballsoccer/

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𝕎𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕫 2022 年 8 月 15 日上午 8:58

引用自 Enterprofilenamehere：
引用自 Wouselz：
It's rather weird to call a sport football instead of handball if it's obviously almost exclusively played with the hands...¯\__/¯
It's played on foot though. Also the name handball is already taken by another sport.

I know but real handball isn't a thing in American or is it?

BTW:
The only time the "football" get kicked is when it's about a kickoff or to get a field goal or did I miss something...

BTOW:
What American call "football" is called "American football" in Europe so there's no possibility to confuse it with real football...¯\_

_/¯

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Enterprofilenamehere 2022 年 8 月 15 日上午 9:02

引用自 Wouselz：
引用自 Enterprofilenamehere：
It's played on foot though. Also the name handball is already taken by another sport.
I know but real handball isn't a thing in American or is it?

BTW:
The only time the "football" get kicked is when it's about a kickoff or to get a field goal or did I miss something...:iamthink:

BTOW:
What American call "football" is called "American football" in Europe so there's no possibility to confuse it with real football...¯\_:catwink:_/¯

I remember playing something in high school called handball. I see no problem with calling football football. Soccer is called soccer here so there should be no confusion.

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