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Greatest shooter ever, yes, no debate. Greatest PG ever? Maybe, give me either him or Magic. Think Magic has the slight edge overall, curry is the better shooter

Go, Endrick

Dont bother with so much unnecessary hate those haters spewed on you.

I always watch this quote from Mayweather. Its fitting.

Yeah, take that

A brazzilian beat many chinese to claim the table tennins world championship

Congrats man. Thats no small feat.

Dang, this man went to China, to beat the top 4 in sequence.

That is something absurd.

A truly insane once-in-a-million goal swing, which happened multiple times in the same match.

Manchester United 5 - Lyon 4 (Extra Time)

Will have to search highlights yourselves due to imaginary lines on the ground that make no sense on the internet.

Time for table tennis to dethrone soccer as the most popular sport in Brazil! :D

Futebol*

No ;<

Soccer Soccer Soccer! :<

サッカー!!!!!!!

Oh and btw a fun fact. Chinese has been playing futebol/football since 206 BC.

Beat that! :D

Afania used the Tsubasa card
It's super effective
The Japanese can get a pass

Speaking of サッカー and the Japanese, City of the Wolves became available today, and their reception of CR7 seems favorable

Umm, I mainly prefer the term soccer because "football" is a confusing term in English. It's more or less a language problem tbh...

Association Football, aka Soccer, people call it football.

American Football, people call it football.


Australian rules football , people also call it football.

Canadian football, people still call it football.....

All those are different sports with different ruleset. So whenever people say "football" I have to ask which football are you talking about!!

This problem wouldn't exist if people use the full name for each football but they don't lol.

The term "soccer" at least solved half the problem here.

Also none of those footballs actually have foot on ball in them, except in certain circumstances.

Square missed the mark by calling it blitzball and not FFootball

Americans* (and countries that follow their naming sense, like Japan)

The rest of the world calls it "football" (or kickball, like the Italian name "Calcio", and maybe the Chinese name?), and calls those contact sports (that are mostly specific to their respective countries & where they hold the ball with their hands most of the time) "American football", "Canadian football", etc. So outside of NA (and a few other countries perhaps), nobody will get confused if you call it "football" and think of the contact sports. It's kinda "default football", whereas the rest of the sports have to be specified their countries of origin.

Obviously it's easier for Americans to call their favorite sport just "football" and pick another name for the way less popular association football, but I find it weird to popularize the American name (which is said to be British in origin, but even the Brits quickly discarded it) in the rest of the world, considering how unpopular football is in America.

I remember back in 94 when the World Cup was held in American for the first time, it was said that, until just before it started, most Americans didn't even know that it was being held there lol. That was how unpopular "soccer" was to them. Not sure how much that changed.

To be precise, the game being played in 206 BC China was called kickball. If using literal translation Chinese also call soccer "football".

That being said, there is a different Chinese term for those oval shaped balls sports like rugby/American/Canadian/Australian football so there are zero confusion between different sports in Chinese, I would say Chinese got a pass on this matter.

This term doesn't exist in English, so there are no way to differentiate those sports unless full name or "soccer" is used.


Not just American, but also Canada/Australia. Due to Canadian/Australian football also exists there. Since soccer is a term used to avoid confusion, you would see those English speaking countries with different kind of football would use the term soccer to differentiate them.

Edit: I think South Africa also use the term soccer.

Because North America + Australia has very large number of native English speakers combined, for me it's easier to default "soccer" whenever I am using English so extra communication isn't needed. For other countries that only plays soccer, they probably don't need to deal with the confusion in their own language to begin with.

Also I am pretty sure most English speaker knows what soccer is. So even if they are not North American/Australian, the chance of causing confusion with the term soccer is still lower than football.

Personally, it's less about "popularize the American name" but more about communication efficiency.

Americans were the first to officially adopt the term "soccer", Americans make up the majority of the native English speakers that call the sport "soccer", and they just have the biggest influence on global culture all around, hence it's okay to attribute the use to them. It's a form of generalization.
The rest I already implied here:
And what applies to America applies to Canada, Australia etc since it's the same situation of having a more popular sport take over the name "football". If I'm in one of those countries, I'd say "soccer" for effective communication.

Unless you're American or from one of the other "soccer" countries, rest assured that neither Panta nor me would get confused if you talk about "football" :p

I am and I thought you knew it >.> >.> I was raised in NA and learned English in school. I am just using English like how I learned it. Football is foreign influence from Europe to me :< Why popularize the European way!

Soccer! Soccer! Soccerrrrrrrrrr! :O

I thought you were a kazakhstani

We need to prepare the change of your citizenship to Kazakhstan because... Alfania, the Kazakhstani sounds so much better.

Coffee also isn't coffee unless it comes in a tiny cup.

What's this assumption based on? ;p



No because I don't want to be poor. ;<

Money > cool country name :D

Panta doesn't :D


Curious if there's a linguistic connection or if it's just a dig at some tradition

By the way, "Coffee" comes from Arabic and it's an old name for intoxicating drinks (wine etc).

Ive been reducing my coffee consumption.

I already halved the sweeteners, now Ive been diluting the coffee 1:4 (I used to do 1:1, or half coffee half water).

I guess more addicted than to the drink itself, it is my addiction to constantly have a cup of liquid close so I can have a reason to change my ongoing actions

No, it's a common saying in meditterenean countries. Italy especially.

Italian coffee is all espresso based. Tiny cups.