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I think you should call it "soccer" or at least "association football" in this context.
by joncrane 9y ago
I think you should call it "soccer" or at least "association football" in this context.
- crispyporkbites 9y agoWhy?
- bostonpete 9y agoBecause most native English speakers call it soccer.
- CJefferson 9y agoReally? Everyone I know calls the sport football. The second F in FIFA is football. I know Americans call it soccer, but that is I assume because of American football, a sport no other country seems to play, or care about.
- geofftrojans 9y agohttps://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/why-we-call-soccer-soccer/372771/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/wh... The name soccer came from Britain, not the US. It was used to differentiate Association Football (soccer) from Rugby Football (rugby). Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand all still call the sport soccer. Even in England, it continued to be a popular name for the sport until the 1950s.
- finnci 9y agoPretty mixed in Ireland to be honest, and we have our own sport Gaelic Football which gets confusing.
- bostonpete 9y ago> I know Americans call it soccer Correct, and most native English speakers are American. That doesn't even account for Canada or Australia where it has also traditionally been called soccer. The fact that the "F" stands for "Football" in the name of an organization with a French name seems irrelevant.
- notahacker 9y agoI don't think many people likely to be interested in an association football API call it "soccer". They're marketing to that audience, not the minority of the world that assumes "football" refers to a gridiron sport.
- joncrane 9y agoBecause it's always better to be more specific in all cases. In this case, especially because it's an international, but heavily American audience.
- ubertaco 9y agoBecause any good developer should, when presenting a product in an international market, consider i18n (which involves more than just "translate from language A to language B").
- boggio 9y agoHmm, I though its called football in the rest of the world except the US. Apparently there are other countries that call it soccer too. http://www.businessinsider.com/football-vs-soccer-map-2013-12 http://www.businessinsider.com/football-vs-soccer-map-2013-1...
- dna_polymerase 9y agoIn Germany (one of the countries with long standing football tradition) it is called "Fußball" which splits into "Fuß" (foot) and "Ball" (ball). It makes much more sense than calling "American Football" Football, as in "American Football" the feet are less dominant than in "soccer" (where hand usage is actually a foul).
- LittlePeter 9y agoNo we should call american football "Hand Egg" instead
- makr17 9y agoAmerican Full-Contact Hand "Ball"