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• Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Called football everywhere except north America where you use the term football for the game you play with your hands…

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also called soccer in Australia, South Africa, Japan, and a couple other places

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i just want to call soccer “footie”. i still prefer sepak takraw though.

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    • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You Malaysian?

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        nah i just know a good time when i see it. played soccer (as I’m statesian) for ten or so years, but my team started absolutely dominating the local rec league when we’d start and end every practice with 15 minutes of sepak takraw.

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  • takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, at least it fits the theme with the ass backwards imperial system.

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    • Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In the same theme I think they can now add the Gulf of America…

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• javiwhite@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Soccer was only ever a nickname tbf, It stood for a(socc)iation football.

  I guess an equivalent would be like calling your police the bobby force.

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And was mostly used by public schoolboys who called rugby “rugger”.

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