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Old 08-31-2004, 09:11 AM   #11
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I prefer the term soccer.

Football is AFL, Rugby league & Rugby Union.
What a strange world you must live in where the three sports you call football are all played primaily with the hands. Shouldn't they be called "handball"? [/QUOTE]hand ball (as i was taught, we also call it wall ball) involves a hand, a wall and a ball. football (american) contains no walls IIRC and there for cannot be hand ball.

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Old 08-31-2004, 09:45 AM   #12
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Old 08-31-2004, 01:19 PM   #13
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I prefer the term soccer.

Football is AFL, Rugby league & Rugby Union.
No, those sports you mentioned are Aussie Rules, League, and Rugby respectively.

Only Australian Rules Football. Could call itself football. The clarifier being they are Australian Rules.

The offical correct term for the sport you call Soccer, is FOOTBALL. Doesn't matter what your preference is. Calling it soccer is incorrect. Only tow nations of the world call it soccer. Australia and America. Both those countries have it as a minority code.

Yet football is the most popular sport in the world, played and watched by more people than any other sport. Manchester United is the most popular and recognised sports franchise in the world. Yes even more than the Yankees.

On an international forum then, when we are dealing with people from all over the globe, it is polite to refer to the sport as it's proper name "Football" and not impose a bizzarre cultural imperialism by perpetuating incorrect labels.

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Old 08-31-2004, 01:24 PM   #14
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I prefer the term soccer.

Football is AFL, Rugby league & Rugby Union.
What a strange world you must live in where the three sports you call football are all played primaily with the hands. Shouldn't they be called "handball"? [/QUOTE]hand ball (as i was taught, we also call it wall ball) involves a hand, a wall and a ball. football (american) contains no walls IIRC and there for cannot be hand ball. [/QUOTE]Handball is an Olympic sport which involves a court, a net (like water polo) and similar play to basketball. It's like a combination between water polo (on land) and basketball, and football (except they use their hands and not their feet)

http://www.ihf.info/CDA/home,2,0,,en.html

No wall, yet the term is officially "handball". What you're calling handball is "court handball" or something. Wallball?
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Old 09-01-2004, 03:47 PM   #15
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I prefer the term soccer.

Football is AFL, Rugby league & Rugby Union.
Yet football is the most popular sport in the world, played and watched by more people than any other sport. Manchester United is the most popular and recognised sports franchise in the world.[/QUOTE]never heard of them.
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Old 09-01-2004, 04:19 PM   #17
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Yet football is the most popular sport in the world, played and watched by more people than any other sport. Manchester United is the most popular and recognised sports franchise in the world.[/QUOTE]never heard of them. [/QUOTE]That would be because you're.... American.
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