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"bigears":2e3sgo0o wrote: [quote:2e3sgo0o]
It's definitely a soccer ball.[/quote:2e3sgo0o]
Tut tut. And this from a man who has recently travelled through South America. I doubt anyone over there calls it soccer. Over 200 countries call it football, I think that may have some weight.[/quote:2e3sgo0o]
Ah but that's usually because they don't have proper footballing games like Rugby or Gaelic, where you're allowed to use your hands <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->
Sure soccer is not even a proper sport! <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D --> All that diving and stuff puts it right down in the gutter with WWF and its' ilk.

&amp;quot;delzep&amp;quot;:3um31yej wrote: soccer is an abbreviation of Association Football. The abbreviation was to distiguish it from Rugby Football[/quote:3um31yej]I am aware of that. However, the use of the term "football" to refer to rugby, or a rugby ball, has fallen out of use, I think.

I don't know many rugby people so I can't be sure, however. Do they call the game "football"?