Convince me that it's a "beautiful" game

No English people evne play hockey. I don't think I've ever seen a game apart from at the olympics?

 

Cujo or association football has common alternative names such as soccer and football. Football in North America doesn't have a common alternative name (in Australia I heard it called Gridiron).

In football the player who scores the most, scores with his foot, the place kicker. The game is started with a kick off. When the ball isn't advanced, the team punts it away. There is also a little used drop kick. After each score there is a kick off. When a touchdown is made, the scoring team can score an extra two points by running the ball in (rarely done) or one point for kicking over the goal.

In soccer players throw the ball in by hand, score using their head or any part of their body except arms. So why not call it Armless Ball? Either sport makes or doesn't make sense in it's naming.

Nike calls it soccer so be nice to them and call it soccer or they might take their balls and go home.

 

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The 'their' refered to Sweden. Sweden is amongst the top producers of ice hockey talent. If these athletes weren't on the ice, Swedish soccer would have about 100 more 6'2" 220lbs (1.9m 100kg) world class athletes to fill their soccer team. Scary, eh?

 

Oh sorry I read it wrong. US sports don't tend to go down well over here.

 

learn to love this game like a kid
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and also remember playing it is funnier than wathing it

 

99% of football is played with the feet, im sure its a similair percentage of american football being played with there hands. What nike calls it doesnt matter although ive never seen them call it soccer, on there tv adverts or anywhere so maybe they only call it that in america which would pretty obvious no? Also the footballs being used are adidas so what balls are they going to take home?

 

Even though most of hockey's premier league teams reside in the US, it is still viewed as a Canadian sport though it traces it's roots back to Holland.

Some of the major sports here cost too much for most of the world to take part in. I could only afford skates, a hockey stick, and a shovel to make my own rink on the lake by my house as a kid. American football is also expensive with all the equipment. Futbol does have the sustainable competitive advantage in that all you need is a flat piece of ground and something like a ball (and a ceasefire in some places).

 

Football is the beautiful game. You only have to watch the likes of Henry, Riquelme, Ronaldhino, Kaka and Messi to see why. Elegant skills, superb vision, passing and shooting.

 

The highlights, like in any sport, are beautiful.