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Originally Posted by trueviking
Also silly to debate about calling it football. We already have a game called football with a very long history and the largest domestic professional league of any sport in the country. The game played with a round ball will always be called soccer. It has no impact on how good our players are or how successful our national team is or ever will be.
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I think it would have an impact of developing true, football culture in Canada. We're capable of differentiating the two sports called football, without continuing to embrace the word soccer, which is very much an Americanism, even if the British coined the term a long time ago.
At least in association football (soccer) players are using their feet for most of the game, unlike gridiron football, where players are using their hands and brute force for most of the game.
I see no problem with using the term football for both, other than some upset CFL and NFL fans.
Canada would gain respect from the rest of the footballing world for embracing the term football and moving on from the term soccer.