On Football and the U.S. Going to South Africa
Posted on October 12, 2009 by Patrick Evans - Marketing Communications Coordinator
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I don’t find it the least bit unusual that many of my fellow travelers are football (soccer) fans and usually insist on referring to the game as football and not by the American term – soccer.
When you travel, two things usually happen.
One – as many of you reading this post probably already know – you start to use words and phrases that are generally accepted worldwide and specifically in the location you are in and some of those carry-over to your everyday life once you get back to the States.
Two – you start to enjoy things that you may not have before as you start to understand their worldwide importance.
One of the things that falls into both categories is football. Not the American variety, but the world variety. And this weekend, the U.S. qualified for the 2010 World Cup, so the Yanks will be heading to their sixth straight Copa Mundial next summer.
To learn a little bit more about South Africa, check out some of these awesome posts from our World Traveler Interns journey to Cape Town and Johannesburg:
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As a European living in the USA I have developed a hate against this annoying name confusion. And in particular when I’m blogging about the world cup in Cape Town next summer. I have started to call it the FIFA World Cup rather than the Soccer or Football World Cup, just to avoid putting people off.
And I am sorry Americans, but the name Football does make more sense in the European meaning of the word.