Soccer
I know this won’t happen but I do wish the world would call it soccer. Back home in South Africa we call it soccer, not football. The USA does it, Australia do too and so does much of Ireland. In Ireland if you asked about the football you would be quickly regaled by a bunch of GAA (pronounced “Gaah!”, not “Gee Ay Ay”) fans. Gaelic football is very popular in Ireland. Ask for football in the States and you’ll get yardages. Down under football will get you Aussie “no” Rules which makes any other sport look tame.
By the way; Google has a handy feature where you can search for “football Argentina” and the first “result” is a summary of the games. Try any team.
June 12th, 2006 at 4:46 pm
In American ‘Football’, the foot is the part of the body that connects with the ball least often it would seem. I don’t see why we need a name change that differentiates between football and a game which was based on rugby which in turn was a derivative of football.
June 12th, 2006 at 4:47 pm
’cause it is confusing. And you owe the Irish. So change it :P
June 12th, 2006 at 4:48 pm
The alternative would be to get the States to rename American Football (not bloody likely.) I won’t even suggest you try and tell the Irish to rename Gaelic Football…