Potentially unpopular opinion: Americans and Australians calling it football doesn’t sound right with their accents, they/we should call it soccer
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Messi
Zidane
Van Dijk
De Bruyne
Bale
Maldini
Vieira
Di Stefano
Raul
Van Nistelrooy
Zola
Son Heung min
New gen:
Haaland
Bellingham
Also, it’s simply that were hard af
How tf can you say that nfl bullshit is called football when “soccer” was invented first?
And is actually played with the feet
There's actually a thing they tell you about how kids born in certain times of the year get the benefit of going smoothly through the age groups (U11, 12 etc) and it helps in their development compared to the others. Just searched up cancers and it's January, pretty sure that was the month they said
Potentially unpopular opinion: Americans and Australians calling it football doesn’t sound right with their accents, they/we should call it soccer
It's a mouthful, always thought that. It makes anybody sound like Will from the Inbetweeners. Soccers cleaner, as is NFL, ARL, GAA etc. for the other sports. Footy's a good name though.
I don’t make the rules
It's a ball game played with feet, it's football
Messi
Zidane
Van Dijk
De Bruyne
Bale
Maldini
Vieira
Di Stefano
Raul
Van Nistelrooy
Zola
Son Heung min
New gen:
Haaland
Bellingham
OP you may have a point because all those guys were exceeding expectations at a young age and most of them played higher up than their age group.
Bellingham, Messi and Maldini especially. (And this new Brazilian prodigy Endrick)
Van Dijk is the only late bloomer on that list.
So all the Cancers that aren't good at football are pretty much failures at life and wasted their natural birth right
I’m a Cancer.
Cancer’s are “feelers” footballs a “feely” sport there’s a great flow and emotion to it. But we’re tough “the outer crab shell” so we can handle the physicality of the sport.
Cancer’s a watery emotional sign that’s my theory.
The second most prominent sign amongst footballs greats was Scorpio another water sign
Just my theory
It's a mouthful, always thought that. It makes anybody sound like Will from the Inbetweeners. Soccers cleaner, as is NFL, ARL, GAA etc. for the other sports. Footy's a good name though.
I call rugby league - footy & I call association football - soccer or football depends who I talk to
There's actually a thing they tell you about how kids born in certain times of the year get the benefit of going smoothly through the age groups (U11, 12 etc) and it helps in their development compared to the others. Just searched up cancers and it's January, pretty sure that was the month they said
Yep. Malcom Gladwell talks about this (in relation to hockey) in his book Outliers