# Brasil 2014

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [May 6, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brasil-2014/687840 "2014-05-06T21:19:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2014, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brasil-2014/687840/2500 "2014-07-02T16:09:42Z")

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> [@Green\_Bean](#):
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> Europeans certainly dick on us a lot about our relatively weak teams and what we call it. I heard this somewhere:
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> Q: How do you annoy a European?  
> A: “Soccer soccer soccer soccer!”
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> It’s funny because it’s true.

I’d argue that Europeans get uptight because they get told that what they call “football” isn’t “football”, they should call it “soccer” because there’s this real sport called “football” that Americans play and is for real men, unlike those pansy Europeans.

No one gets annoyed with Australians for calling it “soccer”. Hell, we’ll happily call them the “Socceroos”. In the UK we do actually use the word “soccer”, it is just that “football” is more common.

Want an example? Well here you go:

> [@Why is there no culture of football hooliganism in the US?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-there-no-culture-of-football-hooliganism-in-the-us/636567/42):
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> It’s actually soccer hooliganism and we don’t play soccer in this country (for Americans unfamiliar with the term soccer, it’s also known as Canadian Lawn Dancing). Here in the US we play real football, which means the players are the hooligans. Soccer hooligans are the result of a pre-teen girls game used as an actual sport for men, even if they are British. If you’ve ever seen the game of soccer you’d understand why the crowd gets violent.

Note the way we are told that it isn’t football, it is soccer, and that in the US “real football” is played.

That’s why we get arsey.

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