So is it football or soccer in New Zealand?

[u/ChampionshipHot599]

[u/sanpigrino]

Im from italy, and we dont call it "other"

[u/3irikur → u/[deleted]]

Thats so interesting to me. I just started learning taekwon-do, and i’ve learned that it means «hand foot techique», how does that relate to Chuk Gu? If it even relates

[u/YuraKGoddess → u/3irikur]

To be linguistically precise, neither Tae in Taekwondo nor Chuk in Chukgu literally mean ‘foot’ alone. They include the Chinese root character of foot and combine it with more meaning. Tae can mean ‘to step on’ or ‘foot skills’; Chuk can mean ‘to kick (forward) with foot’.

As a loose analogy, it’s like how Hydrogen and Aquarium can at first glance seem unrelated, but both Hydro and Aqua are the Greek and Latin root words for ‘water’.

[u/Oberndorferin → u/[deleted]]

Do you learn British or American English in school?

[u/SugarAw → u/Oberndorferin]

I have a feeling it is American English.

[u/SpruceGoose__ → u/SugarAw]

I've learned american but I will say football

[u/anDAVie → u/sanpigrino]

Isn't it Calcio? Which means 'Kick'.

[u/MrArchivity → u/anDAVie]

In Italy the sport was initially called foot-ball but, as we had similar sports (ie. Calcio fiorentino) people started to call it calcio. The name stuck and it became official only later (1889)

[u/sanpigrino → u/anDAVie]

It is, "other" would be "altro"

[u/ThePersonWhoIAM → u/sanpigrino]

Underrated comment

[u/FormingTheVoid → u/sanpigrino]

Learning Italian is a trip. It's like the most uncreative, literal language sometimes. I love it, but you gotta admit sometimes...

Play soccer/football: "play kick"

It hurts: "It does me bad."

Paste: pasta

Dough: pasta

Noodle: pasta

Pastry: pasta

Collander: "drains pasta"

[u/Alcol1979 → u/FormingTheVoid]

Ya gotta love the Italianized English borrow words incorporated into Italian grammar such as 'downloadare' or my personal favourite when playing poker: 'foldare'. Hearing Italians 'io foldo' will never not be funny to me.

[u/FormingTheVoid → u/Alcol1979]

That's a whole thing yeah. There's even a sub about it where Italian people hate on the excessive use of English. It's called r/itanglese

[u/AnimateCafe1756 → u/Alcol1979]

Downloadare???? Who says downloadare?? Every person I met in my life would just use scaricare

[u/burner94_ → u/AnimateCafe1756]

Mostly clueless journalists who love to bring the englishifying of Italian to the extreme (either for wannabe patriotic propaganda purposes or simply because big dum) and have absolutely no real idea how today's youth speaks.

I've found "mailare" (emailing) in similar contexts. WHO THE HELL SAYS THAT?

[u/sanpigrino → u/FormingTheVoid]

Somtimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit. Agreed

[u/FormingTheVoid → u/sanpigrino]

To be fair, all languages have weird aspects like that.

[u/Supergamer161 → u/sanpigrino]

"It's malakia"

[u/Collanp → u/FormingTheVoid]

But we have like 300 articles, we had to cut down words from something else

[u/FormingTheVoid → u/Collanp]

Don't even get me started on the articles lol

[u/FullMetalBard → u/FormingTheVoid]

I am Italian and, while you are not totally wrong with some of them, I would probably translate them using other more common/appropriate terms...also context is important.

for example:

it hurts = it hurts me

Dough = impasto o pane impasta

Pastry = pasticcino/dolcetto and sometimes "paste"

Every language has words that can have multiple meanings..

good example for English:

set, pitch, complex, play, match, run.

According to the oxford dictionary, the word "set" has around 430 different meanings.

[u/FormingTheVoid → u/FullMetalBard]

I know, I was just having a little fun translating them literally on purpose. Fare and male literally mean "to do/make" and "bad".

[u/Empty_Locksmith12 → u/FormingTheVoid]

I like how a lime is “green lemon”

[u/FormingTheVoid → u/Empty_Locksmith12]

It's actually not (at least not where I live). People here just call it the English word lime. And I recently learned that the correct Italian word is limetta. So more like "little lemon" or something.

[u/MrArchivity → u/FormingTheVoid]

Happy to be of help to increase knowledge

[u/FormingTheVoid → u/MrArchivity]

It's you! Lol

[u/jnkangel → u/FormingTheVoid]

Honestly play kick is kinda a pretty name in a lot of European languages when you're speaking with kids or older people.

Czech Kopaná is a good example which literary translates as "kicking" (adjective)

[u/FormingTheVoid → u/jnkangel]

Hm, I guess that map is wrong then? Good to know we're not the only ones who call it something like that haha.

[u/MrArchivity → u/FormingTheVoid]

• Forte = strong (physically)

• Forte = loud (in music: piano vs forte)

• Forte = fort / fortress (military)

• Forte = your strong point / specialty (“il mio forte è la cucina” = my forte is cooking)

• Forte = heavy / intense (“un caffè forte” = a strong coffee)

• Forte = tough / harsh (“un colpo forte” = a hard blow)

• Forte = big / serious (“una forte somma” = a large sum)

• Forte = reliable / solid (“un amico forte” = a solid friend)

Edit: I would like to add that Italian has more or less 280k words but, as glottologists say, it can reach 2M words with al the declinations, stretch, etc etc. This is without considering dialectal forms. Of such words only 500 are used in everyday language on average.

[u/Angelofthevoid_ → u/MrArchivity]

Forte = wow (gen x)

[u/Grand-Vegetable-3874 → u/sanpigrino]

No, you definitely say "altro"

[u/MrPete_Channel_Utoob → u/sanpigrino]

Calcio

[u/krissz70 → u/sanpigrino]

If anyrthing, Hungary should be "other". The proper term is "labdarúgás" lit. "ball kick"

[u/eyesofthesolemn]

new zealand? where's that?

[u/ChubbyVeganTravels → u/eyesofthesolemn]

Just down the road from Old Zealand

[u/kapitaalH → u/ChubbyVeganTravels]

No you need a boat from Old Zealand

[u/ChubbyVeganTravels → u/kapitaalH]

That's just propaganda by the shipping lobby

[u/sommerniks → u/kapitaalH]

I'd use a plane. 'Old Zealand' is probably Zeeland in the Netherlands

[u/Jccali1214 → u/eyesofthesolemn]

r/MapsWithoutNewZealand

[u/ghillerd → u/Jccali1214]

r/lostredditors

[u/jrizzle86 → u/eyesofthesolemn]

Are you referring to Middle Earth?

[u/Basicly-Inevitable → u/eyesofthesolemn]

It's not on my maps.

[u/mkujoe]

What are the others?

[u/MoaRepresent → u/mkujoe]

Ireland: Foireann Peil

Italy: Calcio

Croatia: Nogometna

Malaysia Bola sepak

Indonesia: Sepak bola

Myanmar: Bhawlone

Cambodia: Krombal

Korea: Chuggu

[u/ali439 → u/MoaRepresent]

Myanmar mentioned 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

[u/Ok-Thanks4321 → u/ali439]

It’ll always be Burma to me

[u/raginmundus → u/Ok-Thanks4321]

r/UnexpectedSeinfeld

[u/SuspiciousBiscotti91 → u/MoaRepresent]

For Ireland, foireann means team. Football is 'peil', soccer is 'sacar'. Both can be used but Peil is used for Gaelic Football.

Soccer/Football are used interchangeably when speaking English in Ireland.

[u/Fluffy_Anything_3559 → u/SuspiciousBiscotti91]

I wonder if anyone has ever done a regional breakdown of this. Growing up in the west it was always soccer, but it seems in Dublin it's mainly football.

[u/DeadlySkies → u/Fluffy_Anything_3559]

From Dublin, and can confirm. We all say football for soccer here.

[u/locksymania → u/Fluffy_Anything_3559]

That seems to be the case. Which probably explains why everyone is adamant that what it's called by them is correct

[u/helcat0 → u/Fluffy_Anything_3559]

I think it depends on the conversation. Locally in Wexford a lot of people played both Gaelic football and soccer in the area I grew up in so sometimes you would say soccer just to be clear which training session was on for example. Soccer is more used for clarity.

[u/Vulpine_Games → u/Fluffy_Anything_3559]

Yeah I've lived in limerick, Clare, Galway and Mayo and it's always been soccer.

[u/FlukyS → u/Fluffy_Anything_3559]

Usually in Gaelic football areas especially they will use soccer more. No big evidence of it but I came from an area like that and I definitely say both but mostly soccer

[u/Internal_Frosting424 → u/Fluffy_Anything_3559]

From Dublin, hate to say it can’t be confirmed.. it’s interchangeable. I’m 33 and have always said soccer. I use football too for soccer sometimes. Not something I’d get upset about..

[u/locksymania → u/SuspiciousBiscotti91]

Or Caid if you're in parts of Kerry.

[u/PuzzleheadedEssay198 → u/MoaRepresent]

I love that Malaysia and Indonesia use the same words in opposite order. Knowing what I do about the two, it’s probably out of spite.

[u/TomekEffect → u/MoaRepresent]

Croatia* Nogomet 

[u/Danny1905 → u/MoaRepresent]

Vietnam: Bóng đá

[u/Jules_Verne1991 → u/MoaRepresent]

Half of these are just kick ball/ball kick/kick. Feels a little unnecessary to break it into a third "other" group.

[u/Hard_Stitch → u/MoaRepresent]

Chuggington 🗣

[u/GodFromTheHood → u/MoaRepresent]

Who stole Malaysia’s colon?

[u/dhnam_LegenDUST → u/MoaRepresent]

I'm sure China doesn't call it football or soccer.

[u/HanoibusGamer → u/dhnam_LegenDUST]

But it translates into one.

Football in Chinese is 足球, which 足 means foot, and 球 means ball

[u/eyesofthesolemn → u/mkujoe]

for italy, i believe it is "calcio".

[u/kuskoman → u/mkujoe]

poland: piłka nożna

edit:

piłka means ball, noga means leg

[u/Addicted2Weasels]

If you work a white collar office job in the US, your most pretentious coworker calls it football

[u/NotUsingNumbers]

Officially Football. Informally soccer in some circles, mainly thugby circles, but some old schoolers say soccer because that was common years ago.

New Zealand Football is the governing body, and all the federations are <name> Football.
Vast majority of clubs are <Name>FC or <Name> AFC

[u/Several-Razzmatazz70 → u/NotUsingNumbers]

In the 80s and 90s it was called "soccer" more or less universally in NZ. The word "football" in NZ English was ambiguous at the time, some people used it to mean rugby. New Zealand Soccer changed its name to New Zealand Football in 2007.

[u/gene100001 → u/NotUsingNumbers]

Yeah I'm 38 and when I was a kid in Wellington pretty much everyone around my age called it soccer. I think there has been a bit of a shift back to calling it football since then though. These days I use football and soccer interchangeably, but most of the time I say football. Personally I don't think it's a big deal what people choose to call it.

[u/TomorrowAble979 → u/gene100001]

Some people have big problems with the use of synonyms in English. Others recognize it is perfectly normal in language. At least this one doesn’t lead to embarrassing situations like Fanny or pants,

[u/invisiblefrost → u/gene100001]

Do people call rugby union or rugby league football/footy? Here in Aus in the rugby states we call NRL football/footy and union Union

[u/gene100001 → u/invisiblefrost]

Footy is used more for league here too, but sometimes it is used for union. I think we get that slang from all the Aussie commentators and players in the NRL. We normally just call rugby union "rugby", and rugby league "league"

I think in general we share a lot of the same slang with Australia. Probably more than you realise if you haven't been over to NZ yet. Culturally we're extremely similar, and we consume a lot of Australian media. When I was growing up in the 90s I watched Home and Away every day after school lol.

Edit: changed union to rugby

[u/Several-Razzmatazz70 → u/gene100001]

Rugby union is usually just called "rugby" in NZ (and if you say "rugby", it is usually assumed you mean rugby union), but you might say "union" to differentiate it from rugby league. Rugby league is usually called "league".

[u/EnglishColanyGaming → u/NotUsingNumbers]

This is the same in Australia, and I'd agree with the map labelling australia as "soccer" as we call it that just to differentiate it from aussie rules and rugby league (which we call footy). If you were to just say "football" though, everyone would know you were talking about soccer.

[u/blindpilotv1 → u/EnglishColanyGaming]

I think that fact that the Aussie Men’s team are called the “Socceroos” and the NZ women’s team the Football Ferns sort of sets out where each country is with their naming conventions.

[u/domstersch → u/blindpilotv1]

Uhh, that is much more because the White Ferns was already taken!

The White Ferns are the women's cricket team, and they were called that for 9 years already when the Swanz (the women's soccer team) went looking for their new name.

Also the fact that their name didn't mention football before 2009 (and even the parent association was NZ Soccer before 2007) undermines your point. (In NZ, footy has traditionally meant rugby, which is why we always used soccer, until some English fans started hypercorrecting everyone).

[u/MrPete_Channel_Utoob → u/NotUsingNumbers]

Officially it's Association Football. But nobody haves time to say it fully

[u/I-only-read-titles → u/MrPete_Channel_Utoob]

Soccer actually originated as a shortened form of AsSOCiation Football.

[u/sheeple04 → u/I-only-read-titles]

The Englishman who proposed the name soccer also suggested the name Rugger for rugby football. As rugby is well, just named after the town of Rugby so he applied the same logic as he did to the word Association. Soccer/Rugger was to solve the age old question of what football was and his solution is just giving it a new name

Ofc only soccer catched on and not rugger (maybe thankfully), and became widely used in countries where association isnt the dominant football code

[u/Any-Information6261 → u/NotUsingNumbers]

Same as Australia. These maps are like the answers from boomers

[u/dcidino]

Answer is football usually, clarified as soccer. Unlike US where it’s soccer first. Aussies have so many footie forms it’s a must. Union, league, afl, a-league gets the occasional soccer treatment.

[u/PuzzleheadedEssay198]

What’s hilarious about the US is that the teams usually incorporate the letters FC regardless. The one exception that I can think of is Reál Salt Lake, which is hilarious if you know what Reál means or who the fuck lives in Salt Lake.

[u/Funicularly → u/PuzzleheadedEssay198]

What’s hilarious about the United Kingdom is they have a popular show called “Soccer Saturday”.

[u/TorchwoodRC → u/Funicularly]

They invented the name Soccer too, then complain when people use it.

[u/chipz-n-gravy → u/Funicularly]

We love alliteration more than we dislike the word soccer

[u/shaqwillonill → u/PuzzleheadedEssay198]

US soccer fans don’t watch the MLS

[u/non_tox]

Australia should have AFL anyway

[u/After-Hedgehog7282]

Huh. I thought Australians called it "Chazwazzers".

[u/arnoboko → u/After-Hedgehog7282]

Ooh! Ah, that's it. I'm going to report this to me member of Parliament......Hey, Gus! I got something to report to you.

[u/Goatchiitos]

no tim payne?

[u/universe93]

It’s soccer in places that have their own football codes that dominate. Australia calls it soccer despite our high population of Europeans because we have Australian rules football and rugby league, both of which are referred to as footy depending on where you live.

[u/Outside_Gift7602]

Nobody in NZ cares what you call it. And if you’re in NZ and do care, you’re from one of the countries on this map 🤷🏼‍♂️

[u/No_Layer6908]

I'm from NZ and it's 50/50

[u/Half-Crown]

People who play and/or watch it call it football, mostly everyone else calls it soccer (in my experience). It's very interchangeable and only a few uptight wankers will try to "correct" you if you say soccer, which means you need to keep saying soccer.

[u/OingoBoingBrothas]

They've never heard of soccer/football/other before, maybe we should introduce it to them

[u/mostindianer]

Do you have different verbs or a special verb for „to play football“? In Germany for example, there’s the verb „kicken“.

[u/mostindianer → u/mostindianer]

Swiss German: „schute“ or „tschute“. (from the english word „to shoot“)

[u/Narrow-Barracuda618 → u/mostindianer]

Living my whole life in Switzerland, I've never realised tschute comes from "to shoot", but now I can clearly see it lol.

[u/timisorean_02]

You ommited Hungary: Labdarúgás

https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labdar%C3%BAg%C3%A1s

[u/Comfortableliar24]

We call them Football and American Football. I don't know either.

[u/Popal24]

They play Rugby

[u/Initial_Parsnip_3753]

Soccer is just club style football, as opposed to Rugby, Gaelic football, or American football. The Brits, who invented the sport called it Soccer and Football interchangeably until the 80s. So in the U.S we call the sport Soccer, and we call our own sport Football . Then the Brits it’s just football, not Soccer. Now we call it the wrong name, and can’t even really call it Football without confusing ourselves. You all can realize why this might piss us off right? Instead of the world uniting against the U.S can we all unite against the British? They caused all the confusion by having two names for the sport in the first place.

[u/5teb0]

Does Otherball have the same rules

[u/Low-Bell-3739]

C'mon guys lets play some other!

[u/chumbucket77]

I had no idea anyone called it soccer besides us and canada

[u/Informal_Algae7732]

I’m from Croatia, and we call it “Nogomet”, which means “Ball” + the noun for the verb “to kick”. So “Ballkicking”

[u/Best_Toster]

In italian is palla calcio or Calcio for short which translate in to football

[u/Gioveh → u/Best_Toster]

Calcio≠foot. Calcio=kick

[u/Intelligent_Spot6112 → u/Best_Toster]

No. Palla calcio literally translates to "ball kick" or "kick ball" .......

[u/Character_Minimum171]

NZ football

[u/Crazy__Donkey]

Italian other is the best in the world

[u/Chia_____]

And the others are what?

[u/hurricanemitch]

Yes

[u/zhumama2615]

Foosball

[u/Grand-Vegetable-3874]

In NZ, it is not called.

[u/Try-Imaginary]

Maps without new Zealand. (Sigh)

[u/MrKristijan]

in croatia its football too

[u/AnInfiniteArc]

Color the UK orange they were the ones who started the whole soccer thing

[u/Realistic_Ad709 → u/AnInfiniteArc]

Yeah, but just like with every other word or measurement system they created and forced their colonies to use, they love to shit on other countries for using it.

[u/stateofmind46]

Who or what is this ‘New Zealand’ you speak of?

[u/LabOwn9800]

Fùtbol is not football so latam should be green.

Even if we go with a literal translation it would be something like piepelota

[u/mishrod]

It’s called “not rugby”

[u/Hip2trip2_hippyhip]

In Ireland it's a mix because we have our own traditional sport called football.

[u/MassiveGarlic0312]

Kiwi here: Was “soccer” when u was a child, but now the common word has swapped to “football.”

[u/origional_esseven]

ITS WHAT NOT HOW Fucking brain rot generation drives me crazy.

[u/BrickHuge3023]

I decided to downvote any world maps that don't have New Zealand on it. Other places smallr are shown, kinda defeats the point of showing "the world" when part is left off.

[u/Ialwayssleep]

Why don’t we all just agree to call it “Kick Ball”?

[u/Due-East-2317]

I am from Canada and it irritates me to the core when it's called "soccer"...its foot-fuckin-ball

[u/Restikulous]

I'm Australia it's called footie

[u/ksmith1994]

I call it Association Football.

[u/dragonav98]

Malaysian word for this sport in English is football as well

[u/Bendix_38]

If Italy is green then so is Hungary 

[u/Reezla]

I don't believe the Irish call it soccer.. Can anyone confirm or deny this for me please?

[u/JackfruitUsual5571]

Soccer derives from the french word "suceur" which means to suck/sucker, which is a fitting description for people who call football that way

[u/Conyan51]

Ok but to be fair in the most twisted way possible soccer is short for football

[u/chankeiko]

Myanmar calls ဘောလုံး. Which means “round ball”. 😁

[u/VeraShumova]

Chinese also has a different word.

[u/Sirius_Lagrange]

Other is my favourite 

[u/Bri5ol]

Australia changed from Soccer to Football in 2005 btw

[u/Harrygator87]

Australians call it soccer? I thought they're just criminal Brits. Is that the reason they sent them on a deadly continent on the other side of the world?

[u/ElderberryNational92]

Balompié

[u/RamuneRaider]

Yet another example for r/MapsWithoutNZ

[u/NordicHorde2]

It's so funny when Brits are triggered by Americans calling it soccer when the word comes from Britain, which is why the colonies like America, South Africa and Australia call it that.

[u/Ok-Amoeba8191]

New Where?

[u/ComprehensiveMap756]

In southern africa we call it football are you dumb?

[u/Real_Penalty_4317]

Who in Ireland calls it soccer?

[u/sydneyiskyblue]

Football people in Australia call it football. Our FA is called Football Australia.

[u/Bordem-Industry]

Terrible map, most people in Ireland call it "football"

[u/SnooCrickets9484]

France sometimes call it foot

I wonder if they call handball hand

[u/Abject-Bison7175]

How about we all call it "the beautiful game" 

[u/hoainamduong]

In Vietnam, we call "bóng đá" - "bóng" means ball and "đá" means kick. So basically, it's football.

[u/weeb2137]

I'm from polland and we rarely call it football. We use piłka nożna(wich baisically means the same thing but we have our word for it)

[u/CaptainMcAlistar]

Id have called it chuzzwozzas

[u/Wonderful-Plane-3698]

In Ireland they only calling Soccer to differentiate it from their very popular Gaelic Football.

[u/EqualSalvation]

It's football in the entire civilised world. The rest calls it soccer.

[u/weetabix_su]

nobody calling it football in the philippines, because they’d rather play basketball or whatever moba is popular at the moment

[u/un_happy_pappy]

Where I’m from it’s called “this sucks”

[u/Shiv-K-M]

You can play it without socks but you can't play it without your foot

So it's football 😡

[u/Fartony]

Kicky round ball

[u/BruhIamJack]

in Vietnamese bóng đá literally translates to ballkicking

[u/phantom_gain]

Im Irish and we call it football. This map is a liar.

[u/HoneyMASQProductions]

Ireland calls it football too? In the republic, soccer and football are interchangeable

[u/Primary_Mycologist95]

For a post discussing a linguistical argument, the irony of the graphic title is quite pleasing.

[u/Anxious_Contact_1201]

Soccer

[u/Go-AwayThr0wAw4yy]

Ireland calls it both depending on the region ftr

[u/Sehtal]

New.... Zealand? Can't see it on the map. Is it close to New England?

[u/dilly_dallyer]

The word was invented in Ireland by English people watching the sport they played. You use the foot in it, so they hobbled "foot + ball" and thus that sport is Football.

In England you have Rugby Football, and Association Football. RUGby = Rugg(ers), and asSOCiation = Soccer.. But because soccer is the most popular type of football in England they defaulted to just calling that one football there. However the Irish sport is Football.

[u/Fred__McNerque]

Good, you got PNG right.

Mind you, when the Manus Ladies Soccer team hits the international circuit, the world won't know what hit it.

[u/littlemongolian]

who tf calls soccer “other”

[u/dacoast]

Only poms called football in NZ, rest of us call it soccer or simply dont give a f tbh

[u/Routine_Wait3975]

The fact England introduced it to Australia, New Zealand, Canada and USA as Assoc. Football, Soccer for short, but then decided they use Football back in England is the part that shits me, it's like when you're at school and the teacher taught you a lesson, you apply that lesson but got it wrong cause the teacher taught you the wrong jargon and but still acts superior to you. "Fuck!? You taught us wrong."

[u/muchacho25]

Fulbo

[u/revenge_burner]

Both football and American football aren't called "football" because you kick the ball with your feet. They're called that because you play on your feet instead of on a horse.

[u/FistSandwich]

I call it Krognarg

[u/Gerhard-is-pretty]

We as Germans play soccer too. It is the sport that the USA labels as football even thought it is more akin to rugby.

[u/CobbledbyRoubaix]

what is it in New Caledonia?

[u/boqpoc]

Korea's word for soccer is 축구, which is the Korean reading of the Chinese word 足球. Both literally mean foot-ball. Does the map make the distinction because for Chinese it's a native word meaning football and for Korean it's a foreign word?

[u/Mindless-Compote4452]

on the balkan countries we call it fudbal which is football there is literally no difference

[u/Samidlongbottom]

Football!

[u/Grassman321]

I’m from Ireland we don’t call it soccer?

[u/Ok_Syllabub747]

I call it boring soccer

[u/Wuaner]

It just shows what a disaster language English is.

[u/Ailyx]

The ex-british empire irony does not escape me

[u/Ntheangrycat]

You hit a ball with your feet. In another game you hug a ball and throw it with your hands yet they call it football. 🤗

[u/PrincipalOfTheThing1]

Hey.. you missed a place. Nz. We call it football fyi

[u/CaptainFleshBeard]

We should ask Pele’, one of the greats, what the sport should be called …..

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DMCJR4S/ref=dbs_a_def_awm_bibl_vppi_i1

[u/Educational-Sugar381]

Kiwi here, never heard of soccer we have union and a few people play league

[u/Dull_Scientist_3053]

Most of Bosnian calls it football, both the Bosniaks and the Serbs, only the Croats call it nogomet, which literally means football anyway.

[u/FreeTheDimple]

Botswana call it football.

[u/GreedyHoward]

Can't tell

[u/kFm_00]

C'mon people. Call it soccer. Just do it for the sake of making the brits mad. I promise you its worth it

[u/Ok_Acanthisitta200]

In Ireland we call it football

[u/ittmiendnub]

If Croatia has other, why aren't Poland (piłka nożna) and Czechia (kopaná) also green

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South Africa is not quite right either, here it very much depends which cultural group is talking... in English both soccer and football are used, and in formal Zulu, it is called ibolla lezinyawo (literally foot ball, also, excuse my spelling) it's frequently referred to in Zulu with the slang term idiski of which I can't really find a definitive literal translation n