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minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40arrow-down1·8 months ago Foosball Mama says foosball is the devil!
minus-squareMindTraveller@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·8 months agoIt’s not as dangerous as stick hockey
minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down17·edit-28 months agoIt’s either Football or the local equivalent to “Foot” and “Ball”. The sport with the egg is “American Football”. And you US citizens can call our football “European Football” and not *Soccer".
minus-squareTurtleTourParty@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·8 months agoFoosball specifically refers to the tabletop game in America.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·8 months agoFoosball is just an Americanized spelling of “Fußbal” which is German for Football.
minus-squareZangoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·edit-28 months agoWasn’t the name “soccer” originally from England? Edit: it was, and it was used for ~100 years in England until around 1960 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football
minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·8 months agoWell England sucks :p /s
minus-squareZangoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoSee now we’ve got a valid argument going
minus-squaresmeg@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·8 months agoYeah but only poshos call it “soccer” here to distinguish it from “rugger”
Mama says foosball is the devil!
It’s not as dangerous as stick hockey
It’s either Football or the local equivalent to “Foot” and “Ball”.
The sport with the egg is “American Football”. And you US citizens can call our football “European Football” and not *Soccer".
Foosball specifically refers to the tabletop game in America.
Foosball is just an Americanized spelling of “Fußbal” which is German for Football.
Wasn’t the name “soccer” originally from England?
Edit: it was, and it was used for ~100 years in England until around 1960 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football
Well England sucks :p /s
See now we’ve got a valid argument going
Yeah but only poshos call it “soccer” here to distinguish it from “rugger”