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Fantasy Soccer.
by jaywalk 7y ago
Fantasy Soccer.
- na85 7y ago"Football" is the proper name for hundreds of millions of people, and literally anyone outside North America.
- evgen 7y agoAnd yet so many of them know so little about the history of the name and think that they are “correcting” Americans who call it soccer.
- umanwizard 7y agoThe second part is not quite true. It's called soccer in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa (and sometimes in Ireland), Calcio in Italy, Sakkā in Japan, Zu Qiu in China... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football
- TrumpSucks 7y agopissed off euro trash spotted!
- hhmc 7y agoIt’s known as fantasy football to anyone outside of North America.
- voodooranger 7y agofantasy Association Football rather than Gridiron Football. apparently Soccer comes from asSOCiation.
- koolba 7y agoI’d wager the majority of both the readers and commenters on this site are American legal residents so using “soccer” would be the democratic choice.
- ly 7y agoYour comment got me curious about this. The closest thing I could find is an old HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3298905 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3298905 According to that one ~2/3 of HN visitors are not from the US. It’s old though, and now I’m wondering what the current statistics would look like.
- JamesBarney 7y agoBased on that post more than 50% would use the term soccer.
- koolba 7y agoOpt-in polling is notoriously unreliable but even that poll backs up my claim. You need to add the multiple parts that use “soccer” (which includes Canada) that combined total to about 54%.
- umanwizard 7y agoRegardless, the parent comment was useful to me and I assume others. Perhaps I should have assumed association football was meant, since Magnus is European, but for whatever reason I didn't. Fantasy American football is extremely popular in the US, so I think a lot of people would automatically assume that's what was meant. And yes, we're aware that people in different countries use different words for things. (And no, actually, it's not called "football" everywhere outside North America. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football)
- jmilloy 7y agoFantasy Premier League, in fact, which clears up confusion/bickering, is more accurate, and is the actual text of the OP.
- thom 7y agoIt is now, it wasn't always, and I apologise for the oversight. I watch this argument unfold a few times a week on Twitter, despite everyone in the UK watching TV shows like "Soccer AM" and "Gillette Soccer Saturday" every week of the season.