Soccer and Football - History Forum ~ All Empires

Cause Americans are lousy ignorants.

It was and it is only FOOTBALL

Btw,Soccer is a slang abbreviation of AsSOCiation football.

There are multiple variations of the sport of football.

These variations differ around the world, and here are some of the major ones.

1. Soccer- the most popular worldwide, is named as such because it is a shorthand version of AsSOCiation Football. Or football teams which have associated under a certain set of rules with each other.

2. Gridiron Football- Or American football, it is called Gridiron because the field it is played on resembles a gridiron with the way the hashmarks are put in. I believe it is correct to refer to the Canadian game in this manner as well.

3. Rugby Football- This is known normally as just Rugby but it too evolved from the same game that American football and Soccer did.

Other less well known football rules are Australian and Gaelic rules football, really all of them came from the same game it's just that they have evolved over a century to cater to their audiences. For example the reason that American football has "downs" was to give the opposing team a chance to recover the ball when the other team was in the lead, so that they just couldn't hold onto the ball, as is done in soccer until time expired.

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Foot-ball.

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There is a discussion about this in this thread:

http://allempires.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=18968

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Originally posted by gcle2003

What do you call rugby then? Australian rules? Hurling?

Idea is that this sport is totally unknown in Greece. Nobody bothers enough to distinguish the different variations so we simply group them all under one word.

There's a Greek association on paper, but it's mostly consisted of Greek-Australians and there's no real competition whatsoever in the country.

http://greekrugbyleague.com/

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Originally posted by Paul

Doesn't this get a little confusing on the pitch?

Not really, since there're no pugby pitches

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