We Americans use a lot of funny names that the rest of the world (usually very rightly) uses different terms for.
Such as: 'Soccer'.
I've always thought that 'Football' made a lot more sense for the sport Americans call Soccer. American Football is a game largely played by running around holding the ball - the U.S. name does not seem to fit.
Since you're all a worldly bunch, it's likely that everyone knew this but me.
What is the source of the term 'Soccer'?
a) Association Football (UK)
b) Socre Zapato (Spain)
c) So'kre Bashmak (Ukraine)
Answer
Showing posts with label football. Show all posts
Showing posts with label football. Show all posts
Monday, July 12, 2010
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Scary, and not in a Halloween Way
Check out this Wikipedia entry:
"The Los Maniceros massacre was the 2009 kidnapping in Venezuela of twelve members of a Colombian amateur association football team Los Maniceros (The Peanut Men), ten of whom were later murdered. The dead were aged between 17 and 38..."
Can you imagine something like this happening in the states? An entire amateur sports team gets kidnapped? Makes you second guess your decision to sign up for the local softball league, doesn't it?
"The Los Maniceros massacre was the 2009 kidnapping in Venezuela of twelve members of a Colombian amateur association football team Los Maniceros (The Peanut Men), ten of whom were later murdered. The dead were aged between 17 and 38..."
Can you imagine something like this happening in the states? An entire amateur sports team gets kidnapped? Makes you second guess your decision to sign up for the local softball league, doesn't it?
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