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Australians, an ex-English colony who stills technically is under the English monarchy, also calls it soccer. No one is confused. That said, American football i
by donretag 8y ago
Australians, an ex-English colony who stills technically is under the English monarchy, also calls it soccer. No one is confused. That said, American football is a misnomer and incredibly boring sport.
In most languages, it is not called football, and is also neither a combination of foot and ball.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Australians, an ex-English colony who stills technically is under the English monarchy. Australians are under the Australian monarchy, which is not the same monarchy as the UK. The same monarch, but not the same monarchy.
- bigger_cheese 8y ago"Football" is kind of a generic term in Australia depending on where in the country you are when you say "I'm going to the Football tonight" you could be talking about Rugby (Either Rugby League or Rugby Union), AFL (Australian Rules Football), or Soccer (The A-League). That said local soccer teams tend to call themselves Football clubs use the initials FC. The local soccer team where I live is "Sydney FC". I will say A-League games are pretty good to go to the atmosphere at live games is a lot better than Rugby League games. The crowd really gets into it. My friend is a season ticket holder and he drags me along to A-League games semi-regularly and even sitting in the members area at the matches is pretty good.