The Most Important Debate of ALLTIME

Sport
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Do you call association football, football or soccer… 99%of Irish people call it soccer as reflected by every media outlet in the country. But the Italian chap thinks we call it football…

Lets settle it once and for all

  • Soccer
  • Football

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Football

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Soccer.

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Football.
Soccer is an American term adopted by the Irish.

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If you call it football you’re not really Irish

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Adopted is irrelevant… Most people call it soccer. That’s what I’m asking… Why does every sports and Irish media website have a section for soccer ? It’s what the average person refers to it as.

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Soccer football.

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The Italians call it calcium.

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will be interesting to see the correlation between that use the “footix” term of endearment but who then vote soccer

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Association football.

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1889, socca, later socker (1891), soccer (1895), originally university slang (with jocular formation -er (3)), from a shortened form of Assoc., abbreviation of association in Football Association (as opposed to Rugby football); compare rugger. An unusual method of formation, but those who did it perhaps shied away from making a name out of the first three letters of Assoc. Compare 1890s English schoolboy slang leccer, from lecture (n.).

soccer is used to distinguish from other types of football or football associations. It’s genuinely used where there is another native type of football.

So football is the Gaelic version here. The American version in America etc.

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@Fulvio_From_Aughnacloy is digging out all his logins for this one

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It should be called Asser :smiley:

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It’s played with a football. The people who play it are footballers. The game is called…soccer

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If I’m talking about Gaelic football and association football in the same sentence I MAY refer to it as soccer but otherwise it’s football all the way.

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You have to laugh at the Muldoons who have moved to the big smoke or beyond who feel the need to call it football :laughing:… Too many years trying to fit in to let the mask slip now.

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I was genuinely surprised to see such a vote for soccer when I voted.

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That’s what people call it mate. You telling me people in Leitrim call it football? Go way ta fuck

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The old fellas wouldn’t anyway.

My uncle used to listen to the local radio to get all the GAA scores and reports. Then after a while ‘Now the League of Ireland’…

‘Ah feckin soccer’ [Turn off]

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Soccer is an English term mate. Anyway we too have our own football so only natural we need to distinguish.
I’d call it both to be honest. Depending on the situation