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Simple Question - Why Soccer Forum

  • 12-06-2008 2:48pm
    #1
    Chong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,676 ✭✭✭


    Simple as the title says why is this called soccer and not Football. Always wondered this , just wanted to ask, I always believed soccer to be an american term.


Comments

  • #2
    MementoMori
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,492 ✭✭✭MementoMori


    Growing up in Kerry if you were talking about football, you were talking about GAA, while soccer was what we called association football.

    Think it was to avoid a nasty fight between the GAA forum and the Soccer forum


  • #3
    John Mason
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    cos football means the GAH



    Edit: changed for DesF


  • #4
    homah_7ft
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,124 ✭✭✭homah_7ft


    Nope it's not an american term. It's simply an abbreviated version of Association Football.


  • #5
    Indie18
    Registered Users Posts: 799 ✭✭✭Indie18


    it really depends who i am talking too. if i am talkin to any friends or family from outside of dublin or if i am talking to americans then i do call it soccer but if i am just talking to my mates then its always football.


  • #6
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    I refuse to use the word Soccer, but I can understand why it is used in Ireland.

    Still sounds American though:(


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  • #7
    Eirebear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,014 ✭✭✭Eirebear


    Its football for me too, but growing up in Donegal i always had to clarify which football i was talking about.

    Pfft! as if i would be talking about Gaa :eek:


  • #8
    OhNoYouDidn't
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭OhNoYouDidn't


    MementoMori wrote: »

    Think it was to avoid a nasty fight between the GAA forum and the Soccer forum

    Why, they are the Gah forum? If they had subforums in stickfighting and bogball and called them hurling and football there might be a legitimate debate. But seeing as they don't, I agree with the original poster.

    I think a campaign to change the name of this forum to the name of the sport is in order! Who is in?


  • #9
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I asked this at the time was put back in my box.

    Mike.


  • #10
    leninbenjamin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭leninbenjamin


    Eirebear wrote: »
    Its football for me too, but growing up in Donegal i always had to clarify which football i was talking about.

    ditto. I still get confused by 'football'. plus I used to watch NFL as a kid so that messed things up further...

    i dont say football; it's 'Gaelic', 'Soccer', or 'dumb American hybrid sport' (i no longer like NFL :))


  • #11
    OhNoYouDidn't
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭OhNoYouDidn't


    mike65 wrote: »
    I asked this at the time was put back in my box.

    Mike.

    were you a mod at the time?


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  • #12
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Probably not, it was a loooooong time back.

    Mike.


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