Soccer World Cup.

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soccer
ˈsɒkə/Submit
noun
a form of football played by two teams of eleven players with a round ball which may not be handled during play except by the goalkeepers.
synonyms: Association football; More

Soccer?, the thread title is correct👍🏻😊

It would be much easier to define if the Americans hadn't bastardised our language - and there's no animosity or hatred intended here before anyone jumps on my back!

Association football is a game played by two teams of eleven players with a round ball which may not be handled during play except by the goalkeepers. In America, this game is called soccer

Football has other variants; ie Rugby football, Gaelic Football, American football, Australian rules.

As defined in the Collins dictionary;

"Any of various games played with a round or oval ball and usually based on two teams competing to kick, head, carry or otherwise propel the ball into eachother's goal or territory etc"

So the Soccer World Cup is for the Americans - the rest of us know it as the Football World Cup - but to be correct (and maybe we're our own worst enemy?) the word "Association" should not have been dropped?

Other definitions and dictionaries are available 

Yanks are newbies to the world of football, U.K. and Europe have been playing it for centuries.............

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OJjkQZ0e-rI

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Most probably an age thing, the closer you are in age to the day it was invented the more chance you insist on it being called football, the further away the less chance of calling it football. Most youngsters call it soccer(that I know). Me?, I don’t let it bother me, geez I’ve even heard it called footy😱😱. I know, I know if only capital punishment was still available😤😤

I love Eric Cantona's insightful look at this World Cup..............

https://video.eurosport.co.uk/football/world-cup/2018/suck-it-messi-i-am-the-goat-eric-cantona-wades-into-messi-ronaldo-debate_vid1101968/video.shtml

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 If  I'd  seen  your  post  before  I  went  out  this  morning,  I  might { I  did  say  MIGHT }  have  come  home  with  a  different  hair  style 

England Is the better team,  they will win today,  I'm supporting England 

What has been notable is the sly, cynical foot treading, scraping the ankles and calfs. None seem to be punishable.

Sly, nothing sly about Panama's wrestlers and elbow throwers! Half of team ought to be off pitch!

Just goes to show if you get a good referee, backed up with technology, the cheating will be punished and the villains will eventually stop their cheating antics

Well done England