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HMW

HMW

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I haven't been overly impressed by Brazil. Unless they shape up they will not reach the final.

The best teams I've seen this far are Germany (as usual) and Holland. Costa Rica played really well against Italy, I hope they'll go far. Also Chile was remarkably intense.

Haven't seen USA play at all.
 
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doowopgirl

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Lepplady said:
When does America play again?
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Thursday. Not sure what time it will be to you, but it will be 5 p.m. in Ireland. The USA has a good chance of getting through to the next round if they can keep Germany to a draw. You may laugh, but no ne expected them to hold Portugal to a draw. I caught the beginning of the match and they were playing The Star Spangled Banner. It brought a tear to my eyes as I haven't heard it played a sporting game in a long time.
 
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JordyVerrill

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Kurben said:
Watch as many games as i can. Stephen King might like baseball but i go for soccer everytime. In Europe we call it Football. I've never understood why american Fottball is called that since it isn't played, mainly, with the feet. But it is always nice to see teams full of fighting spirit score against relatively big nations like Portugal.
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Back in 1860's, when American football was developed, the rules of the game were much different. There was a lot more kicking of the ball involved. There were no forward passes, and every punt was a live ball so teams often kicked the ball to advance it. Also, scoring was done mainly by the drop kick, not running the ball into the endzone (you could still do this but it was much easier to just kick the ball). The game evolved, but the name "football" stuck.

Around this same time, the sport that the rest of the world now calls football was actually called soccer (which is originally a British word for the sport) by most people in the Engligh speaking world, which was short for "association football". British slang at the time liked to shorten names of everything, and they liked to add "er" to the end of words... which is why they called Rugby "rugger". Anyway, they shortened the name "association football" to "Assocer" and then eventually just "soccer". The fist documented case of the sport the rest of the world calls "football" being called "football" was in 1881, which is about 12 years after the first documented case of the sport America calls football being called football.


Now you don't have to wonder why we call football football and soccer soccer.
 
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Lepplady

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doowopgirl said:
Thursday. Not sure what time it will be to you, but it will be 5 p.m. in Ireland. The USA has a good chance of getting through to the next round if they can keep Germany to a draw. You may laugh, but no ne expected them to hold Portugal to a draw. I caught the beginning of the match and they were playing The Star Spangled Banner. It brought a tear to my eyes as I haven't heard it played a sporting game in a long time.
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I think I read somewhere that both USA and Germany will advance no matter who wins, so how about they play a 90 minute game of hackey-sack?
 
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Kurben

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JordyVerrill said:
Back in 1860's, when American football was developed, the rules of the game were much different. There was a lot more kicking of the ball involved. There were no forward passes, and every punt was a live ball so teams often kicked the ball to advance it. Also, scoring was done mainly by the drop kick, not running the ball into the endzone (you could still do this but it was much easier to just kick the ball). The game evolved, but the name "football" stuck.

Around this same time, the sport that the rest of the world now calls football was actually called soccer (which is originally a British word for the sport) by most people in the Engligh speaking world, which was short for "association football". British slang at the time liked to shorten names of everything, and they liked to add "er" to the end of words... which is why they called Rugby "rugger". Anyway, they shortened the name "association football" to "Assocer" and then eventually just "soccer". The fist documented case of the sport the rest of the world calls "football" being called "football" was in 1881, which is about 12 years after the first documented case of the sport America calls football being called football.


Now you don't have to wonder why we call football football and soccer soccer.
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Certainly fits with the america i have experienced. Traditional even when it comes to names that the original namers doesn't use anymore. Thanks for the etymology. didn't know that.
 
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I just don't get why people are so excited over a game of global kickball.. ;)
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