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> There’s no soccer competition Ahhhh, you're American!
by drcongo 2mo ago
> There’s no soccer competition
Ahhhh, you're American!
- dmarcos 2mo agoI’m spanish living in the US
- TRiG_Ireland 2mo agoHere to give you the occasional reminder that Irish people (sauf a few weirdos in Dublin) also call the sport soccer.
- padjo 2mo agoMost Irish people (save a few in Dublin) are basically Americans.
- TRiG_Ireland 2mo agoSo you've not heard of Gaelic football?
- billforsternz 2mo agoSoccer is a legitimate name for the sport. Football is properly the name of a whole group of sports OR in a local context the locally most popular type of football. It's very weird for one type of football to try to claim the name all for itself globally. BTW I am not American.
- xdennis 2mo agoNo it's not. Americans call it that and they don't even like football.
- billforsternz 2mo agoLots of people call it that. The Australian national team are called the Socceroos. The best, most authoritative magazine about the sport is called "World Soccer", published in the UK, where the name soccer originated. Even if the name soccer was used only in the USA, it would be a legitimate name. Different cultures use different names for things.