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 have never heard of a SportS called EuropeanFootball. I believe that Soccer is an North American term that has spread also to Australia. I think EuropE, South America and AfricA uses the term FootBall for what americans call Soccer.

Do the following investigation yourself:

• British site: http://www.football.co.uk/
• French site: http://www.football.fr/
• Italian site: http://www.football.it/
• South africa: http://www.safa.org.za/misstat.html
• Mexico: http://www.terceradivision.com.mx/
• Argentina: http://www.afa.org.ar/home.htm
• Brasil: http://www.brasilfutebol.com/select_language.sps
• India: http://www.indianfootball.8m.com/

A quick Internet-investigation leads me to believe that UnitedStates, CanadA, AustraliA and NewZeeland use the word Soccer and the rest of the world uses the word FootBall.

-- LinusTolke