i like how in american football they don't even use their feet lul

@Anonymous: i'm sure they use them a little.. for like, running... and stuff.

@Gentleman_Bear: you could say the same for anything, such as mountain climbing could be called heartbeat-bowelmovement

@Anonymous: Only in america do you bastardise things by changing names, sports, drinks, fucking food? Keep the name original

@Anonymous: Voet ~ Foot
Bal ~ Ball

How about no?

@Anonymous: Actually, the USA and English do the least bastardizing of foreign words. What are the English words for tacos, burritos, papaya, mango etc etc etc? I could go on forever and with different languages.

@Anonymous: You only changed the name so you could say you invented it and in your weird sense of inferior superiority you probably think you did.

@Anonymous: I like the country I live in. I ain't even mad.

@Jiakko: We all like our countries, I'm ok with that

in eire we call football, 'peile'.
we are going to win the euros.
ty.

soccer is just a shorter way to say Association Football, which is the oficial name of the sport, that was created by the brits when compiling the rules...

@Anonymous: In Indonesia we call it sepak bola.
We are ashamed of our football association.
:okay:

I'm brazilian, the only reason we say "futebol", is because "pé-bola" sounds retarded. same whith "basquete" (sometimes basquetebol), "volei" (sometimes voleibol) etc... the important thing is that we're so good at football, we even created 2 different ways to play it so we can be the best in the world even more, and we're also the best at voleyball ;)

@Anonymous: Well, you've got to be good at SOMETHING, right? Wait, add selling drugs and killing people to your list. :P

the only practical use of this post was that I now realize how useful a facepalm sticker would be; like this one: https://canv.as/d/cvyx2/reply/602909
or maybe this : https://canv.as/d/s5qej/reply/1313868

@Anonymous: killing people, yeah. selling drugs, thats paraguai and bolivia...

@Anonymous: What pisses me off the most is that this motherfucker is right.

Mexico > Cascara, Fucho, Balonpie, futbol.

Most of the commonwealth (like Australia and Canada) also refer to it as soccer. This is because there are a lot of football sports. They are called this because they are played on foot instead of on horseback like polo. Some of the many football sports are soccer, rugby, and gridiron. Calling it soccer is more specific and accurate. I just wished that we would call American football gridiron because that is so much more badass sounding.

@Anonymous: Can't we just put that behind us?

@Anonymous: Ima let you finish but Spain is currently the best in the world. We are also improving our poverty rates so we may beat you in that matter too. Beware Brasil.

@Anonymous: Interesting question; how long do you mourn like 70 million deaths?

@Anonymous: 78 seconds. FACT!

@Anonymous: Technically it is! Hooray for peasant sports!

@Anonymous: spain is the current World Cup champion, and leader of the FIFA ranking iirc, but Brasil has the most World Cup titles, is one of the most traditional national teams in existence, AND has the most competitive championships. We don't call ourselves "País do futebol" (football country) for nothing.

@Anonymous: I'm German and fucking sick of everyone just being able to think of nazis when they hear 'German'.

And yet in American Football the highest-scoring players in the league are all kickers, responsible for the point-after attempts and field goals that are at the end of most productive offensive possessions. Foot == Points == Victory

@burrowowl: You do realise no one cares, right?

@Anonymous: Nobody cares about Futbol, the most popular sport in the world, or Handegg, the most popular sport in the United States. Gotcha.

@burrowowl: They are both tedious diversions followed only by the braindead.

@burrowowl: You'd be surprised at how little people care about whatever happens in the US.