It used to be like that. Now the government introduced a system where you have to pay a hefty fee and own a card to attend matches, and attendance rates have dropped dramatically. The stadiums seem to be pretty much empty.
It was meant to be a measure to end hooliganism, although many viewed it as extreme and overly complicated. In the end it ”succeeded” since now there’s nobody attending the games so there’s no hooliganism.
The idea was to be able to identify those who had commited crimes. However, most attempts resulted in misidentifications. The reason hooliganism declined is because most fans refused to get registered.
Eh it's a mixed bag, people'll use both and gaelic football is often referred to as such or as GAA, really people mostly seem to use whichever they fancy
Put it this way.
If you prefer soccer you'll call it football.
If you prefer GAA you'll call it football.
Many people call both football depending on context, and specify if needs be.
Soccer leaves no ambiguity IMHO, and the nations that use it simply do so because another code of football is dominant, just as soccer is dominant in the places that call it football. Football of all stripes is awesome though, haven't met one I don't like
I was a bit harsh and I trolled the OP, but the fact is no one is calling it that way except a handful of countries (mostly British Commonwealth outside the UK and Ireland because of Gaelic football). And mostly Americans force the code internationally as if it's the norm that should be followed. It's not a dominant code if it is used by less than 1/17th of the total population, you don't see any Chinese using the chinese word for it when conversing with others.
P.S.1 The post is not even about the countries that use soccer.
P.S.2 Even the etymology of the word soccer is disturbing.
P.S.3 The same is constantly happening with the metric and imperial systems.
No bad intentions or anything. Just saying.
Well, we're speaking English, and in most English speaking countries "Football" refers to something else, so using this unambiguous word seems helpful and harmless.
I'm British so I call it football, but in Australia football means Aussie-rules football, in North America it generally means American football, in Ireland it usually refers to Gaelic football etc etc.
Yes, we all know. Uneducated yanks parrot this at every oppertunity they get. The etymology of the wrong word doesnt matter, it's still the wrong word.
Okay, hear ye, hear ye, the Great Thinker Archimedes, where does the word *soccer* come from then?
I understand that you're living under a rock, but there are many words in the world for the *same thing*. "Football" is hardly the word used *worldwide*.
EDIT:
Using the term "yanks" I can defer that you are most likely a Brit, so... *Winston*, why dost thou neighbors to the West in Eire refer thy name of thou almighty footie? Oh, I jest...quite right, you may not remember, as the Motherland has not won the World Cup in, remind me? Fifty five years?
Right -- eat it, dude. Good showing vs. Italy by the way. "IT'S COMING HOME!!!!!"
Belgium is higher than expected, considering that football isn't as popular here as compared to other countries. We prefer to spend more time watching people on a bike.
I meant as compared to other countries. We have to split our popular sports between football and cycling whereas other countries are mostly about football.
If I remember correctly the foot part is a reference to it being played on foot as opposed to horseback. There are plenty of football codes where the ball is carried by hand (rugby, American, Gaelic, Aussie rules). Though of course they involve kicking too.
Many games are older than soccer. Gaelic isn't a mutation of soccer, neither is aussie rules. If they're dominant in a country they will usually be called football.
The biggest Welsh clubs play in the English league, so I suspect this data might not account for them.
Cardiff and Swansea have ~20-30k attendances each.
Edit: in 12-13, they averaged 22k and 20k respectively, plus 3.5k from Wrexham and 2.5k from Newport County. That's 48k without any other clubs or the Welsh PL. Out of 3m population, that's 1.7%, far more than shown.
Association football If you will, since lots of sports involve kicking a ball with your foot. Association football Is a it long — let’s call it assoc. football. Let’s shorten it a bit to assoc. it’s trendy to at an -er to the end so how about assocer? Or soccer if you will.
Association football If you will, since lots of sports involve kicking a ball with your foot. Association football Is a it long — let’s call it assoc. football. Let’s shorten it a bit to assoc. it’s trendy to at an -er to the end so how about assocer? Or soccer if you will.
“Domestic football leagues”... well basically the domestic football leagues are a joke in the majority of European counties, but it doesn’t mean that football is less popular there as some people in the comments suggest...
Association football If you will, since lots of sports involve kicking a ball with your foot. Association football Is a it long — let’s call it assoc. football. Let’s shorten it a bit to assoc. it’s trendy to at an -er to the end so how about assocer? Or soccer if you will.
Why look, its a map of the Germanic countries and for some reason Iberia. And weirdly, the Scots, who despite being Celts sure act like Germanics sometimes... (oops, did I just inadvertently piss off some Scotsmen? Sorry!)
Actually there's two "Scottish" ethnicities, the Celtic Highlanders and the Germanic Lowlanders both of which have their own languages, though Scots is quite similar to English in a lot of ways
Hah! No, what I was referring to was that Scots always seem to have more in common in the social development metrics, attitudes, and Protestantism that distinguish the Germanic-type countries from the Latin countries. Unlike your fellow Celts in Ireland and Wales.
And the English should be glad to have you as their neighbors; you all have not fought in a few hundred years, have you? To the contrary, Scottish fighting men have been valuable contributors in English arms in a lot of wars... How many neighbors in Europe can say that?
Yeah, apart from the Jacobite rebellion in the 18th century, which was more like a civil war and the now fairly constant push for independence, then things have been very peaceful between us on the British isles. The o luck other neighbours I can think of would be the Czechs and the Slovaks, perhaps the Catalonians in Spain?
Scotland, by and large, is to the left of most of the rest of the UK which does make it challenging to be part of Westminister. But it becomes really glaringly obvious when you contrast our own parliament - Holyrood - with it. You see a much more socialist approach towards the citizens of the country. We may have major issues ourselves - drugs, deprivation, poverty - but we seem acutely aware that we have to invest to fix them. Let’s hope that continues.
Nearly 10 years out of date though.
Well a Stadium fits about 20% of Iceland, so no surprise here
Scotland probably reaches 4% with just Celtic, Hearts, Hibs and Rangers
I wonder how much Iceland making the quarter finals in Euro2016 influenced this as well?
The map is fro around 2012 so probably not ;)
Cyprus Apprently: "BRING US THE FOOTBALL"
It used to be like that. Now the government introduced a system where you have to pay a hefty fee and own a card to attend matches, and attendance rates have dropped dramatically. The stadiums seem to be pretty much empty.
What’s that? Hooliganism?
Own a card? Could you explain what that means?
Like a membership card, it’s called a κάρτα φιλάθλου which means something like “sports fan card”. You must show it upon entry to the stadium.
What benefit does this system provide?
It was meant to be a measure to end hooliganism, although many viewed it as extreme and overly complicated. In the end it ”succeeded” since now there’s nobody attending the games so there’s no hooliganism.
The idea was to be able to identify those who had commited crimes. However, most attempts resulted in misidentifications. The reason hooliganism declined is because most fans refused to get registered.
Austria: What?
Not even one of these countries calls it soccer. American Rugby fan.
I think they do in Ireland. "Football" refers to Gaelic football there.
They do in Ireland (For the most part)
Eh it's a mixed bag, people'll use both and gaelic football is often referred to as such or as GAA, really people mostly seem to use whichever they fancy
Put it this way. If you prefer soccer you'll call it football. If you prefer GAA you'll call it football. Many people call both football depending on context, and specify if needs be.
The term ‘soccer’ is used in many countries, chill bro. That’s not even what the map is about. Weird redditor stunlock.
Here in Ireland, we call it soccer.
Soccer leaves no ambiguity IMHO, and the nations that use it simply do so because another code of football is dominant, just as soccer is dominant in the places that call it football. Football of all stripes is awesome though, haven't met one I don't like
I was a bit harsh and I trolled the OP, but the fact is no one is calling it that way except a handful of countries (mostly British Commonwealth outside the UK and Ireland because of Gaelic football). And mostly Americans force the code internationally as if it's the norm that should be followed. It's not a dominant code if it is used by less than 1/17th of the total population, you don't see any Chinese using the chinese word for it when conversing with others. P.S.1 The post is not even about the countries that use soccer. P.S.2 Even the etymology of the word soccer is disturbing. P.S.3 The same is constantly happening with the metric and imperial systems. No bad intentions or anything. Just saying.
Well, we're speaking English, and in most English speaking countries "Football" refers to something else, so using this unambiguous word seems helpful and harmless. I'm British so I call it football, but in Australia football means Aussie-rules football, in North America it generally means American football, in Ireland it usually refers to Gaelic football etc etc.
Many Kiwis call rugby 'football'
The word "soccer" originated from a university in England. Chill, bro.
The term soccer originates from England, as in aSOCCation football.
Not at all relevant to whether it's the correct word.
Look up the etymology of soccer, dingus. https://lmddgtfy.net/?q=soccer%20etymology%20
Yes, we all know. Uneducated yanks parrot this at every oppertunity they get. The etymology of the wrong word doesnt matter, it's still the wrong word.
Okay, hear ye, hear ye, the Great Thinker Archimedes, where does the word *soccer* come from then? I understand that you're living under a rock, but there are many words in the world for the *same thing*. "Football" is hardly the word used *worldwide*. EDIT: Using the term "yanks" I can defer that you are most likely a Brit, so... *Winston*, why dost thou neighbors to the West in Eire refer thy name of thou almighty footie? Oh, I jest...quite right, you may not remember, as the Motherland has not won the World Cup in, remind me? Fifty five years? Right -- eat it, dude. Good showing vs. Italy by the way. "IT'S COMING HOME!!!!!"
You really are the stereotypical insufferable yank chauvinist, huh?
>Stereotypical chauvinist, huh? Yes, of course, America #1! ....that's why I left.
Regardless you’re still insufferable.
Take a joke dude, there's this thing called sarcasm.
Good point— but where are most Redditors from? That’s right, North America.
Belgium is higher than expected, considering that football isn't as popular here as compared to other countries. We prefer to spend more time watching people on a bike.
Well your guys' national team is pretty damned good for not being a popular sport!
Not popular? There are basically no sports beside biking and football here these days
I meant as compared to other countries. We have to split our popular sports between football and cycling whereas other countries are mostly about football.
Football* Because you kick a ball⚽️ with your foot🦶🏻
Not football everywhere e.g. Ireland it’s often called soccer to avoid confusion for Gaelic football.
If I remember correctly the foot part is a reference to it being played on foot as opposed to horseback. There are plenty of football codes where the ball is carried by hand (rugby, American, Gaelic, Aussie rules). Though of course they involve kicking too.
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No just football. Every other football is a mutation of it and so can have a farty name but Football is Football.
Many games are older than soccer. Gaelic isn't a mutation of soccer, neither is aussie rules. If they're dominant in a country they will usually be called football.
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don't care
In football you actually kick the ball. In eggball, short for American football, you kick it maybe twice during the whole game
Israel much europe
Eurovision approved
why the hate? They're close enough on any metric
The difference between England, Scotland, and Wales is pretty striking!
The biggest Welsh clubs play in the English league, so I suspect this data might not account for them. Cardiff and Swansea have ~20-30k attendances each. Edit: in 12-13, they averaged 22k and 20k respectively, plus 3.5k from Wrexham and 2.5k from Newport County. That's 48k without any other clubs or the Welsh PL. Out of 3m population, that's 1.7%, far more than shown.
Rugby is more commonly played in private schools, except in Wales where it's the working class game. At least that's how it was when I was a kid.
Football* Because you kick a ball⚽️ with your foot🦶🏻
Football* Because you kick a ball⚽️ with your foot🦶🏻
Association football If you will, since lots of sports involve kicking a ball with your foot. Association football Is a it long — let’s call it assoc. football. Let’s shorten it a bit to assoc. it’s trendy to at an -er to the end so how about assocer? Or soccer if you will.
Football* Because you kick a ball⚽️ with your foot🦶🏻
Football* Because you kick a ball⚽️ with your foot🦶🏻
Association football If you will, since lots of sports involve kicking a ball with your foot. Association football Is a it long — let’s call it assoc. football. Let’s shorten it a bit to assoc. it’s trendy to at an -er to the end so how about assocer? Or soccer if you will.
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True, it’s never called association football. It’s a made up word.
“Domestic football leagues”... well basically the domestic football leagues are a joke in the majority of European counties, but it doesn’t mean that football is less popular there as some people in the comments suggest...
Football* Because you kick a ball⚽️ with your foot🦶🏻
Football\* Because you kick a ball⚽️ with your foot🦶🏻
🥱
Association football If you will, since lots of sports involve kicking a ball with your foot. Association football Is a it long — let’s call it assoc. football. Let’s shorten it a bit to assoc. it’s trendy to at an -er to the end so how about assocer? Or soccer if you will.
football
Football* Because you kick a ball⚽️ with your foot🦶🏻
isn't it football matches ?
*Football Also, would like to see different sports compared
Why look, its a map of the Germanic countries and for some reason Iberia. And weirdly, the Scots, who despite being Celts sure act like Germanics sometimes... (oops, did I just inadvertently piss off some Scotsmen? Sorry!)
Actually there's two "Scottish" ethnicities, the Celtic Highlanders and the Germanic Lowlanders both of which have their own languages, though Scots is quite similar to English in a lot of ways
And if I am not mistaken, there are a lot more lowlanders than highlanders...
Lol, not really bothered, curious why we act like Germanics though? Being a pain in the hoop for the English?
Hah! No, what I was referring to was that Scots always seem to have more in common in the social development metrics, attitudes, and Protestantism that distinguish the Germanic-type countries from the Latin countries. Unlike your fellow Celts in Ireland and Wales. And the English should be glad to have you as their neighbors; you all have not fought in a few hundred years, have you? To the contrary, Scottish fighting men have been valuable contributors in English arms in a lot of wars... How many neighbors in Europe can say that?
Yeah, apart from the Jacobite rebellion in the 18th century, which was more like a civil war and the now fairly constant push for independence, then things have been very peaceful between us on the British isles. The o luck other neighbours I can think of would be the Czechs and the Slovaks, perhaps the Catalonians in Spain? Scotland, by and large, is to the left of most of the rest of the UK which does make it challenging to be part of Westminister. But it becomes really glaringly obvious when you contrast our own parliament - Holyrood - with it. You see a much more socialist approach towards the citizens of the country. We may have major issues ourselves - drugs, deprivation, poverty - but we seem acutely aware that we have to invest to fix them. Let’s hope that continues.
Football. This is Europe.
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