[Lexicog] Naming the Beautiful Game: Football or Soccer?

[Fritz Goerling]

Hi, John,

 

My criterion is that a game where one mostly carries or throws the ball in
order to score is not "football," strictly speaking. O.k., one can include
American football or rugby as varieties of "football" because one can also
use one's feet to kick the ball. The question is, of course, how wide or
narrow you want your definition to be or what common use is. And what is a
"football?" The round one used in "football (soccer)" or the oval-shaped
one? 

 

Fritz

 

P.S.: Even if you sold Wayne Rooney, from a wider perspective he might prove
to be

         the "savior of England" at the World Cup. I only hope Germany and
England won't

         face each other too soon, which is, however, quite likely.

Hi Fritz,

Having read your article it seems to me that the folks who call football 
"soccer", i.e. the Americans, Australians and Canadians, are the ones who 
don't play the game very well. They don't even know what to call the game. 
:-) For the rest of us, it is football - the beautiful game.

John Roberts

British > English > Liverpudlian > Everton supporter (we shouldn't have sold

Wayne Rooney)

 

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