It's just called football, because (unlike the american version), the players actually
use their feet to move the ball around,
perhaps the americans should rename their sport "handball".
The full name is "Association Football", in an attempt to distinguish it from "Rugby
Football", thus the abbreviation "soccer".
Personally it's "fitbaw" where I grew up, and is still called that by my (now american
accented) children.
And american football is "rugby for pansies", but that's probably just a national bias.
Gordon
Ronnie Gauthier wrote:
> Thats what we call soccer, I think it is really called futbol or fotbol.
>
> On Tuesday 04 September 2001 08:07, Lee wrote:
> > Ronnie Gauthier wrote:
> > > http://www.linux.de
> > > looks like it...LOL
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 04 September 2001 00:38, Zoki (News) wrote:
> > > > *** I have the strong impression the German Linux site got hacked by a
> > > > football loving Englishman...
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Zoran.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Is that REAL football, or the kind where they use a round ball and wear
> > > knee pants?
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