Why do Europeans call soccer "football"?
Why do Europeans call soccer "football"?
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because we can
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Why do Americans use "like" in every sentence?
why are americans so fat?
>doesn't live in England
>lives in America
>but speaks English
>can't even do it properly
A 200 year old country asking why thousands of years of civilisation calls their sport a certain word
We don't.
No clue.
The inventor of the game called it soccer until they (England) caved under the pressure of their continental masters, just like they did with the Imperial system and the EU (they still haven't left).
>The word "soccer" is a British invention that British people stopped using only about 30 years ago,
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Americans, Aussies, Kiwis, and Canadians call it by its correct name, honoring the game's Anglo roots.
The goalie uses his hands in soccer so it should be called handsandfeetball
Why are Londoners so Arab?
You also speak English and don't live in England.
ball1
[bôl]
NOUN
a solid or hollow sphere or ovoid, especially one that is kicked, thrown, or hit in a game:
its an ovoid meaning its a ball
>European education
because its a target for immigrants through both legal and illegal methods.
why are you so fat?
Reminder that the issue isn't calling football something else (no one is complaining about calcio), but calling it something else while calling some other garbage football.
Because we can what American'ts.
>why are you so fat?
because we're rich
>but calling it something else while calling some other garbage football.
Europeans called rugby rugby football. we just shortened it. Blame yourselves.
>German humor
>why are you so fat?
Why are you?
why do american "sportsmen" have to wear protective padding?
because people were dying
Because NFL players hit considerably harder than mangrab players.
why do americans talk funny?
Oi ye a'vin a giggle der m8?
>obvious b8 thread that leads nowhere
>people actually taking the b8
what is wrong with Sup Forums?
why are germans so adorable?
I'm big-boned, you cunt
no games on
because we don't have speech impediments so we can pronounce our Rs and don't pronounce our As like Os
peanuts on aeroplanes? what's that about??
Are you a dartsman?
That's what happens when you only have 1 sport.
Sup Forums is a slow board when it's not fast.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
no, thats what happens when its monday afternoon
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What other sports does Bulgaria like to watch?
volleyball is sort of popular
other than that, whichever one we happen to be ok at the time
tennis is the hot new meme, because of dimitrov
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Why do americans store their shoes in the freezer?
>ay yo to keep dem fresh
The British used to sound like American until the middle of the 20th century, right about when they started going downhill and we took over as the world power. If you listen to Churchill talk he sounds more American than British.
why are americans always sitting on the roof talking to their imaginary dads?
jesus fucking christ. in your timeline the dinosaurs died out 120 years ago.
that chart's old too, Mexicans are the fattest in the world now
captcha high bonin
don't blame us all for Texas dictating the history in American school history books. not kidding either, the state purchases more textbooks than any other, so they basically have a big stake in what gets printed in them.
pic related is from 2012, if you're right then how did mexicans get so fat in 5 years?