“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” William Shakespeare had no idea that those same words would apply to one of today’s ongoing terminology rivalries stretching across the Atlantic – the ...
Blind soccer often produces some of the most memorable moments at the Paralympics. Remarkable videos of players showing incredible coordination and skill, slaloming through entire teams and scoring ...
The word ‘soccer’ remains at the heart of one of the most enduring, if comparatively low-key and petty fronts of the culture war. At its most basic level, it’s a transatlantic disagreement over ...
England beat Senegal 3-0 to set up a quarterfinal matchup with France. Of course the irony is the term originated in England. Soccer. A word that in the UK conjures up images of Americans playing ...
Amid the age-old debate whether the sport should be called "football" or "soccer", the latter actually originates from Britain itself. "It's called soccer!" - So rang out the chant from United States ...
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Donald Trump is aiming to settle the football/soccer debate once and for all. It’s something widely discussed around the globe and has been for years. When you talk about football in North America, it ...
Silly Americans, always doing things differently - not using the metric system, measuring temperatures in Fahrenheit, driving mostly automatic cars, calling football soccer. Well, my fellow ...
The 2014 Brazil World Cup, likely to be the "most watched sporting event ever," is currently taking the world by storm. Though soccer has long been the world's favorite sport, its popularity has been ...
Every four years during the World Cup, it becomes a much bigger debate: Why do Americans call it soccer instead of football? You might be surprised to learn where "soccer" gets its roots. I'm Michel ...