I have spent many years in South Africa and they use the term soccer! The professional league is called the PSL(Premeire Soccer League)!!!
But as soon as the announcement came that they were geting the World Cup in 2010 all of the media and government officials started calling it "FutBol"!!! But I heard many locals say " why we we calling it Futbol now we always call it soccer"?
Now that the World Cup has come and gone everyone is back to saying Soccer!!!
Apparently they were only willing to interview people who were willing to call it futbol! Or the Vuvuzela sound distracted me too much
The only thing that annoys me about soccer are the Eurosnobs who insist that their way is correct.
In that regard, "football" is a pretty decent name for soccer. The naming committee wanted to go with the more apt "diving", but that was already taken by the swim team.
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football players divers just because there's like 3 Italians, 3 Spainiards and a Portuguese who excel at it is like saying all basketball player are going to file bankruptcy at some point of their life, smoke weed and find themselves in children-custody, rape and infidelity/divorce scandals during their time in the league. Oh and
American Footballer usually like dog fights. All of them. It should be renamed into Dogfighting, but that was already taken...
Call me a Euro snob or whatever, but that's where this game is from. I mean it's not like we feel entitled in Germany to change the name of basketball into hoopball or hooping. Plus I call American Football straight football mostly, as the German word for the "real" football is "Fußball", thus using the English word implies for most straightforward thinking people that I'm talking about the American game while I'm having conversations in my native language.
Just like Americans refuse to call it football due to popularity and their own history which I respect, I refuse to call it soccer when I'm writing in English about it in a context that allows no misunderstanding.
Wanna add that I wasn't the one who started the soccer <=> football topic on here, that's what a Canadian started if I'm not mistaken.
Part of what is making things exciting lately is that Jurgen is having them push for more and more...even when they have a big lead. No sitting back and packing it in. Love it.
I totally forgot that Klinsmann was your headcoach...Most Germans don't value him as a good coach. They dislike his shortcomings when it comes to tactics. I agree with it, but I think he's a good player's coach for a young group.
Plus I just found out that Jermaine Jones(aka the German MWP) is on your national team. Can't deny I had to think about Chris Kaman immediately.
First time I've seen something from the USA on an international level was 2002 the quarter final vs Germany, where I felt before the game it's going to be a blowout win but then we got kind of lucky with more than just a few left opportunities for the US boys. And of course a tragic semifinal exit of Germany against Bulgaria in 1994. I was 7 back then and my world fell apart for a couple days back then. I even cried. But that tournament is a little bit of an all time classic for the guys my age. During that tourney a German player was suspended for showing the middle finger to the fans during a game. His last name is a synonym for that now.