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Re:F1, like soccer and the metric system, is OK for everyone... by sjh on Thursday November 29, 2012 @07:43AM (#4847366)
It's 'football' in the UK, but in most of the rest of the Anglophone world, it's 'soccer'. Australia has its own 'football', as does Ireland.
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Re:F1, like soccer and the metric system, is OK for everyone... by rmccue on Thursday November 29, 2012 @08:49AM (#4847631)
> Australia has its own 'football'

In fact, we have multiple: 'football' here can refer to rugby league in QLD and NSW, AFL in pretty much every other state (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barassi_Line ), or soccer.

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Re:F1, like soccer and the metric system, is OK for everyone... by nicholassmith on Thursday November 29, 2012 @07:56AM (#4847417)
Oddly in most of Europe it's 'football' as well, EUFA, IFA, Ligue de Football and so on, seems to be quite fractured depending on whereabouts in the world you are, and with the rise in people learning American English through TV/movies/etc I can see it becoming more popular to call it soccer.
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Re:F1, like soccer and the metric system, is OK for everyone... by riffraff on Thursday November 29, 2012 @08:33AM (#4847555)
it's football in south america too ( Fútbol,Futebol).

Maybe of interest:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football

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Re:F1, like soccer and the metric system, is OK for everyone... by dbaupp on Thursday November 29, 2012 @08:11AM (#4847477)
Over the last few years, there has been a move in Australia to use "football" for soccer. The 3 other footballs (rugby league, rugby union and AFL) are more commonly "rugby" or "footy".

(At least, that's what I've noticed.)

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Re:F1, like soccer and the metric system, is OK for everyone... by dkersten on Thursday November 29, 2012 @09:39AM (#4847882)
as does Ireland

Yet if you say "football" in Ireland, it is assumed you mean soccer.

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