Soccer vs. Football

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Totally agree.

yeah, i think footballers should watch some american football or rugby :)

where so?

Provide a reliable source stating that it wasn't founded in England then?

There were no Americans during the Middle Ages. Because that's when football as we know it has it's origin.

so that's the reason it's called football? because you play it on your feet? goodamn, then you have a lot of versions of football, one should be called basketfootball, one basefootball and you could also have tennisfootball

ur wrong..

Football is played all over the world so I have absolutely no idea why you would limit it to only Europe when it comes to big stadiums.
The 200,000 crowd was achieved in the fifties, when safety measures weren't so strict as nowadays and when such crowds were possible. There's also mention of games in Scotland between Celtic and the Rangers drawing 150,000 fans to the stadium, but once again, that was before the ridiculous safety measures and anti-good atmosphere elements which are in place now.
I've checked the Super Bowl attendance figures btw, an average of merely 70-75,000 when your stadiums are all 80,000+ is kinda "sad", but then again you have 100 million people watching it on TV so I guess it evens out.

And I don't despise Americans, I'm even cheering for them at this world cup (I absolutely LOVE Landon Donovan so you can imagine my exhileration when he scored against Algeria). I'm simply getting fed up with the term "soccer". You're on a website that mainly attracts Europeans, it's not that difficult to change the term soccer to football. To me it even seems you're doing it on purpose to attract more attention.

you need bigger stadiums so all the fat fucks can fit in, seems pretty logical to me xD

stop talking shit pls.we speak here of football stadiums,not stadiums where u play ur shit game where u throw the ball with the hand but u call it football

stop making yourself look like an american

Ok, but i think that we can rule out size of stadiums as a reasonable argument.

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America has 6 bigger stadiums than the biggest one in Europe.

so, soccer > football ? u mad ?

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16/23 american players are playing in Europe

quess why?

Wow grats....

There are 300+ mill people living in the US.

On average there are 20mill people living per European country.

Not even close to a fair comparison.

Get something that's worth comparing and we'll talk.

well you are certainly not acting like you are humble now are you?

Yes that's right, American people are known for their respect for other cultures. Europeans are the ones pissing on everything that isn't capitalistic and doesn't have stars and stripes on them.

Honestly, the only thing European people REALLY hate about American people, is that they tend to revert into elitist, patronizing class-a jerks when they feel the least bit offended or compromised.

I've met tons of great Americans, have some family there, but you are just enforcing that stereotype with every single comment you have made so far.

hmm such a shame, u have been playing ur "football" almost 150 years and it is still popular only in USA. In the same time football get popular in almost whole world :O

and another thing, big stadions? no thanks! Tell me how the hell u can see smth there? U going to watch match with some googles or what?:O

seriously :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

you aint got no pancakes!!!!!

Dunno form where do u have that informations, but on wiki is written that average weigth is USA looks like that
male 86.6 kg (190.9 lb) female 74.4 kg (164.0 lb).

Anyway to make ur day better I found some stuffs which shows that ur ppl arent the fatterst in the world :P (tbh i expected germany somewhere high on that list, but i am rly supriced they are just right away after u :P i am living here since 2 years and i saw more fat ppl, than during all 25 years which i spend in Poland xD but stilll, shame Germany :p)



List of the fattest countries in the world according to the World Health Organization (WHO):

1. American Samoa, 93.5 per cent (of population that’s overweight)

Traditionally, Pacific Islanders ate native foods high in complex carbohydrates and low in fat. That began to change dietary habits as family members abroad introduced those back home to Western eating.

2. Kiribati (in the Pacific Ocean), 81.5 per cent

Between 1964 and 2001, food imports to the least developed Pacific nations, such as Kiribati, increased six-fold. Those imports led to a huge influx in fatty food and processed meat, such as Spam and mutton flaps (fatty sheep scraps).

3. U.S., 66.7 per cent

In the early 1960s, 24 per cent of Americans were overweight. Today, two-thirds of Americans are too fat, and the numbers on the scale keep going up. Health experts attribute the rise to an over-production of oil, fat and sugar — the result of government farm subsidies started in the 1970s that made it much cheaper to manufacture products like high fructose corn syrup, a common ingredient in processed foods.

4. Germany, 66.5 per cent

When Germany found out that it was the fattest nation in Europe, health experts blamed the usual suspects: beer, fatty foods and lack of physical activity. Like the rest of the world, Germans are suffering from an easy availability of junk food and more sedentary jobs and lifestyles.

5. Egypt, 66 per cent

In the 1960s, Egypt produced enough food to feed its people a steady diet of red meat, poultry, lentils, maize and dairy products. But by the 1980s, the population had outgrown food production, leading to an increase in food imports that created poorer eating habits.

6. Bosnia-Herzegovina, 62.9 per cent

Smoking, drinking and eating unhealthy foods spiked during the war that ravaged the country from 1992 to 1995. Those living just above the poverty line are gaining weight the fastest, partly because of the tendency to fill up on cheap processed foods high in calories and low on nutritional value.

7. New Zealand, 62.7 per cent

Researchers found that how much time New Zealand children spend watching television is a better predictor of obesity than what they eat or how much they exercise. The study found that 41 percent of the children who were overweight by age 26 were those who had watched the most TV.

8. Israel, 61.9 per cent

In the past 30 years, the number of obese Israelis has tripled. As in most developed countries, obesity is most prevalent among Israelis with less education.

9. Croatia, 61.4 per cent

Croatia is a victim of the globalization of the food market, which tends to suppress traditional diets as cheaper processed foods from the U.S. and Europe flood store shelves.

10. United Kingdom, 61 per cent

A recent survey ranked the British among the bottom third of European nations in physical exercise, leading Health Secretary Andy Burnham to comment, “We’re really in danger of being known as the best in the world for watching sport, but one of the worst for getting out there and doing it for ourselves.”


tadaaa :)

I suppose it's that "feel strongly" part that makes it that much worse. With that said, I wouldn't say all Europeans hate Americans (in fact, I daresay the xenophobes are even a minority); this community is just filled with haters and trolls, so despite your resilient attempts to explain why America isn't much worse than the rest of the world, they will continue to hate you. Trying to be "different" from a "global standard" just elevates the amount of disgust.

Interestingly, people seem to think Canada is part of the States, so we get just as much shit as you do :P Personally, it doesn't bother me much; I hope you'll excuse my exploitation of the rather apropos "haters gonna hate" here (for lack of a more fitting phrase).

care to explain?