EURO 2024

[crazy canuck]

Turns out the sport really is properly called soccer.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C86w-e-o31N/?igsh=MjJzbW5zYmNkNmQx

[Josquius]

Turns out the sport really is properly called soccer.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C86w-e-o31N/?igsh=MjJzbW5zYmNkNmQx

No.
The original name was always football. But then that covered a myriad games including stuff more like your codes.

It is known(ish. A lot of ignorant people) that soccer is a word invented by public school poshos who were more into rugby.
I used to have a PE teacher who was a rugby guy and always called football soccer.
Though these days that has largely dropped out of fashion, I don't think you get anyone under 70 who considers rugby the true football.

[crazy canuck]

It didn't say it was the original name, I said proper name.

[Josquius]

It didn't say it was the original name, I said proper name.

I don't know how you get to that.
Its proper name is Association Football.
Soccer is a nickname used by old school toffs, yanks, and yank-adjacents.

[Duque de Bragança]

Turns out the sport really is properly called soccer.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C86w-e-o31N/?igsh=MjJzbW5zYmNkNmQx

No.
The original name was always football. But then that covered a myriad games including stuff more like your codes.

It is known(ish. A lot of ignorant people) that soccer is a word invented by public school poshos who were more into rugby.
I used to have a PE teacher who was a rugby guy and always called football soccer.
Though these days that has largely dropped out of fashion, I don't think you get anyone under 70 who considers rugby the true football.

It's like people calling rugby (union or league) rugger. 

[crazy canuck]

It didn't say it was the original name, I said proper name.

I don't know how you get to that.
Its proper name is Association Football.
Soccer is a nickname used by old school toffs, yanks, and yank-adjacents.

You are in full class warfare mode so missed why I used of the word "properly" in the context of the how the word soccer was created.

Take a breathe and think about it again.

[Josquius]

It still doesn't make sense. What is use of proper you're using?

[crazy canuck]

It still doesn't make sense. What is use of proper you're using?

You correctly point out that the word came from an upper class origin, if you also consider who adds the annoying affectation of an er sound to words, and you think about the group that insists on "proper" conduct you might see it.

[Josephus]

 

[crazy canuck]

You are much like BB, you view everything through a very literal personal lens.

[Tamas]

You are much like BB, you view everything through a very literal personal lens.

The proper name of football is football, because that's what it is. If you don't think so you are wrong. End of story.

[crazy canuck]

The proper name of football is football, because that's what it is. If you don't think so you are wrong. End of story.

Hungary needs more Traditionalists to come back home 

[HVC]

Ouch. Old Germany coming back, 

[Jacob]

Turns out the sport really is properly called soccer.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C86w-e-o31N/?igsh=MjJzbW5zYmNkNmQx

Late 1800s Oxford fads in slang do not define what is "proper" today. Evidence dismissed.

[Threviel]

The world is changing, Spain is playing a quick and entertaining game.

This could go any way, but I think Spain is looking better. 60/40 advantage Spain.