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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Called football everywhere except north America where you use the term football for the game you play with your hands…
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Also called soccer in Australia, South Africa, Japan, and a couple other places
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
i just want to call soccer “footie”. i still prefer sepak takraw though.
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You Malaysian?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 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 3 weeks ago
Well, at least it fits the theme with the ass backwards imperial system.
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
In the same theme I think they can now add the Gulf of America…