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Looks more like soccer to me.



Dude you’re either trolling or you’re just extremely oblivious.

Do you realize that football is the most popular sport in the world and almost every country call it football? (you know, because you’re controlling a ball with your feet)


> Do you realize that football is the most popular sport in the world and almost every country call it football?

So? Hacker news is an american site and we call it soccer.

> (you know, because you’re controlling a ball with your feet)

Actually, football is a class of games which involve kicking a ball to score a goal. Everything from "football" to soccer to rugby has kicking to score goals/points.

"Sports commonly called football include association football (known as soccer in some countries); gridiron football (specifically American football or Canadian football); Australian rules football; rugby football (either rugby league or rugby union); and Gaelic football."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football

If you really want to be accurate, then you should call it association football. And the word soccer is derived from assocation football.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/soccer


This is "football" in most parts of the world - or the latinized futebol / fùtbol.


soccer is shorthand for association football.




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