June 14, 2014

  • fútbol

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    Etymology
    Some Latins are defensive about the word "football."  They claim that we Americans are using it wrong.  Guess what, Jorge, it's not even a Spanish word.  You stole fútbol from the Brits, didn't you.  And you didn't even spell it right.

     

    danish fodbold     ukrainian futbol
    dutch voetbal vietnamese bóng đá
    german Fußball welsh pêl-droed
    portuguese futebol xhosa isoka
    romanian fotbal yoruba bọọlu afẹsẹgba
    spanish fútbol zulu lezinyawo

    This table proves that foreigners are all ignorant about football.

     
    Viewing the games
    The World Cup is available on ESPN in the USA.  I do not get ESPN.  Do you?  If you live in Canada, you can use the CBC.  If not, you can use the Spanish-language network Univision:

    http://deportesenvivo.univision.com/

    If you’re fluent in Spanish, you’re all set.  And if not, well, the action tends to be pretty self-explanatory, and the word “goooooooaal!” sounds the same in English and Spanish.  Right now I am watching Costa Rica vs Uruguay.  The Uruguay guys are larger, the Costa Ricans faster, so it's an interesting game.  Uruguay is leading 1-0.

    You can see replays of the finished games in the following link  (to see them live, you're asked to install some kind of media player, which I do not trust very much).

    http://www.tsmplug.com/category/football/

    Here is the schedule and results of world cup games:

    http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/scoreboard/

    The object of the game
    Headdd
    ... is to eat the entire soccer ball while running at full speed down the field.

    World class flops
    Everybody agrees that Brazil was awarded an undeserved penalty free-shot after staging this fake injury (GIF):
    penalty-gif

    FIFA: John Oliver gets it right

    "Sepp Blatter?  Even his name should have been red flag.  If your name is Sepp, at the bare minimum, you've strangled someone in a bar fight.  That's just a fact."

     

     

Comments (2)

  • thanks for the schedule, I thought the USA was playing Mexico tonight though...bummer...also since I learned about the sport from my kids playing in high school I'll just call it soccer =) although I did find humor in the Vietnamese version =) and I'm so glad they don't have those zuzu horn things in Brazil!

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