FootBall

Two teams of eleven players each fight to get a spherical ball into the other teams goal.

The players are not allowed to touch the ball with their arms or shoulders.

Each team has a goal keeper that is allowed to touch the ball with his arms and shoulders when he is standing within the marked area around the home goal.

That which one buys a large screen television for...

Not to start a religious war or anything, but the definition above is for what we Americans call SocceR. FootBall is what they play in the SuperBowl. :-) --JimboWales

I suggest AmericanFootball and EuropeanFootball as topics. :-) -- LarrySanger

Do non-Americans refer to Soccer as Soccer as well as FootBall?

If so, we could change this page to simply be a pointer to AmericanFootball, SocceR, and AustralianFootball.

I think AustralianFootball is the same thing as RugBy, but

I'm not an expert!

I was very much aware of this conflict when I wrote this entry. I just wanted to stir up something. I believe that Soccer is an North American term that has probably spread also to Australia. I think EuropE, South America and AfricA uses the term FootBall for what americans call Soccer.

Do the following comparison:

• American sites: http://www.football.com/ http://www.soccer.com/
• British sites: http://www.football.co.uk/ http://www.soccer.co.uk/

-- LinusTolke