American here.

The us national team is really bad. The FIFA rankings are so off because the US beats Guatemala and Honduras all the time.

I like the Mexican team much better, but they seem to have a tough time against the US team...sometimes they get outmuscled/outfouled.

Still, there are some good individual American players.

You have Tim Howard at Man Utd, maybe he moved now. And on the other side didn't another Hahneman just blank united for Reading?

Then you have Damarcus Beasley who was in the premiership and just moved to a top team in Scotland (Celtic?) not to mention Freddy Adu who just went to Benfica.

So there is some quality, just not nearly enough, and none of them are World Class.

Did anyone see the Copa America? Argentina was so good.

Australian here, so all those choices are wrong for me.

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Round ball and square gates.

Soccer.

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Oval ball, in armour and tights.

Gridiron... not popular, baseball is also not popular, only 1 aussie in the world that plays it in the major league.

Foot ball is oval ball, short shorts & shirt & 'H' shaped goals.

can't the americans called it ovalball, or tight-wear-armor-plated-peopleball?

FUTBULL!

you kick the ball with your foot, and somehow you manage to make yourself a vegtable while balancing a jetliner on your nose

Aryt, time to kill this once and for all...

Football-
You kick a BALL with a FOOT, anything else is intolerable via the rules, hence the name 'Football'

Soccer-
Oval ball, hardly any kicking, popular in america, CHEAP AMERICAN RIP-OFF... WITH LATEX SUITS!

anyone who think soccer is football needs to look at the rules...

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Originally posted by TheDreamSlayer:
Aryt, time to kill this once and for all...

Football- Soccer
You kick a BALL with a FOOT, anything else is intolerable via the rules, hence the name 'Football' Soccer (Common name, Football)

Soccer- American Football
Oval ball, hardly any kicking, popular in america, CHEAP AMERICAN RIP-OFF... WITH LATEX SUITS!

anyone who think soccer is football needs to look at the rules...

Uhm, you got the names wrong, but I corrected that for you.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil old man

hehehe, I try hard to be..........

as it were, you try too hard

Can I help it if I have a natural talent for evil...........

You coundl't be more evil if you tried

OK let's try this: World Cup of Football vs. Superbowl Champs. Each team wears its normal gear, and the ball gets changed out at half time of the game. Scoring will be the Euro version, (Big Fat Net 4 metres tall). No subs on either team, injured players carried off and game continues. Who wins?
That's right, you know it!

It would be even more fun if the teams swapped equipment, I wonder how the Superbowl Champs would manage without their all their body armour..............