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Not to start a religious war or anything, but the definition above is for what we Americans call SocceR.  FootBall is what they play in the SuperBowl. :-) --JimboWales
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I suggest AmericanFootball and EuropeanFootball as topics.  :-) -- LarrySanger
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Do non-Americans refer to Soccer as Soccer as well as FootBall?

If so, we could change this page to simply be a pointer to AmericanFootball, SocceR, and AustralianFootball.
I think AustralianFootball is the same thing as RugBy, but
I'm not an expert!
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I have never heard of a SportS called EuropeanFootball. I believe that Soccer is an North American term that has spread also to Australia. I think EuropE, South America and AfricA uses the term FootBall for what Americans call Soccer.

Do the following investigation yourself:
* British site: http://www.football.co.uk/
* French site: http://www.football.fr/
* Italian site: http://www.football.it/
* South africa: http://www.safa.org.za/misstat.html
* Mexico: http://www.terceradivision.com.mx/
* Argentina: http://www.afa.org.ar/home.htm
* Brasil: http://www.brasilfutebol.com/select_language.sps
* India: http://www.indianfootball.8m.com/

A quick Internet-investigation leads me to believe that UnitedStates, CanadA, AustraliA and NewZealand use the word Soccer and the rest of the world uses the word FootBall.

-- LinusTolke
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Americans, when for whatever reason we speak about soccer as "football," in order to avoid confusion with the sport we call "football," call soccer "European football."  Even [http://uk.sports.yahoo.com/foot/ital/t/inte/ Yahoo! UK] is determined to annoy you by calling it this.
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Yahoo! UK - just as any other decent sports site - calls it European FootBall in order to distinguish between FootBall played in Europe and FootBall played on other continents, eg. South America. I would like to remind my fellow Americans that FootBall, by definition is played using one's feet, and not by holding on to it with your hands and running around like a headless chicken.

<em>Whoever wrote this deserves a round of applause, it made
me laugh out load</em>--JimboWales

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And then enters the [http://www.bomis.com/rings/xfl XFL] or [http://www.bomis.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?XfL XfL]
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