Soccer was only ever a nickname tbf, It stood for a(socc)iation football.
I guess an equivalent would be like calling your police the bobby force.
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kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 month agoSo same as soccer
Soccer was only ever a nickname tbf, It stood for a(socc)iation football.
I guess an equivalent would be like calling your police the bobby force.
And was mostly used by public schoolboys who called rugby “rugger”.
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Called football everywhere except north America where you use the term football for the game you play with your hands…
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Also called soccer in Australia, South Africa, Japan, and a couple other places
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
i just want to call soccer “footie”. i still prefer sepak takraw though.
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You Malaysian?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
nah i just know a good time when i see it. played soccer (as I’m statesian) for ten or so years, but my team started absolutely dominating the local rec league when we’d start and end every practice with 15 minutes of sepak takraw.
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Well, at least it fits the theme with the ass backwards imperial system.
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 1 month ago
In the same theme I think they can now add the Gulf of America…