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| As far as I know it, the game is called Football in England, Fußbal in Germany and where I'm from, The Netherlands, voetbal Most countries use the term football... so why not the rest of the world? Whytcross, Benjamin <BWhytcro@pacificaccess.com.au> (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.loc.au)
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| "Casper van Nimwegen" <neverroads@soneramail.nl> wrote in message news:Fyr5yx.H6t@lugnet.com... (...) There are many sports which feature contact between the foot and the ball. In Australia, the popular foot-and-ball sports are historically rugby (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.loc.au)
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| With Rugby, League and AFL (1), the ball is in the players hands for most of the time. So I don't see how it can be called Football. Call me picky but I use the term football or "footie" to mean exactly that: Game played with the foot. Bear in mind (...) (24 years ago, 4-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.loc.au)
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| FIFA stands for (excuse my spelling) Federation International Football Association I think. If not it's something similiar. If an international organization calls it football, then one would assume it is called football in most countries, right? (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.loc.au)
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