A Meeting of Cultures in an International World

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A Meeting of Cultures in an International World

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Saturday, January 29 2011 @ 10:36 pm ACDT

I disagree with one comment in the article. "Association Football, disparagingly reduced to ‘soccer’ in Australia". The term soccer may have been used disaparagingly by some people because they disliked the game, regardless of the name used. But the term soccer itself was not created to be disparaging. It is after all a reduction of the full name, simply an abbreviation, and one used in England itself, and indeed if it was considered disparaging why did the national side choose to call itself the Socceroos?

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