Thread: Football (Soccer for the Yanks)

Originally Posted by Dagest

Я буду помнить следующий раз.

Оля - девушка

Но это же частный случай.

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

Barmbie is right folks...

The next Eurocup is in 2008!!! Not 1998 !!!

I can't believe you didn't notice that.

Oh and Gab, good luck going to Moscow in October 1997!

Do you know, I have no idea why I typed that! I had been drinking, but still...

Btw, I

Originally Posted by Оля

Originally Posted by Dagest

Спасибо, Оля! Ты добрая девка.

:P

Originally Posted by GabCNesbitt

Do you know, I have no idea why I typed that! I had been drinking, but still...

Хммм!.... Какая отличная идея! Войдите в MasterRussian и загуливайте!

Soccer... taint a real football

Originally Posted by charlestonian

Soccer... taint a real football

Yeah! I kind of agree with that statement.

Also I find it interesting that the promoters of Soccer are trying to usurp the generic word "football" (which is any number of games where a ball is kicked) as their own "special" word.

That is exactly what i saw recently in Australia. Football always meant Rugby or Australian Rules Football and Soccer meant Soccer there until just recently when the Australian soccer team (big joke) actually had a shot at the World Cup. Things are changing now with all the soccer maniacs arriving in Australia.
Sadly, gone are the days when no "true blue" Aussie would be caught dead with a soccer ball!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

девка

Дзеўка

не буду спрашивать!

Originally Posted by DDT

Also I find it interesting that the promoters of Soccer are trying to usurp the generic word "football" (which is any number of games where a ball is kicked) as their own "special" word.

Probably they try to "usurp" it because soccer IS real football. They DO play kicking the ball with their feet, while in Rugby and American football players mostly run holding the ball in hands.

And after all "soccer" was initially an abbreviation for "association" in Football Association.

Apparently you are right about this. However, both soccer and rugby came from the same game of football which split apart forever in 1863. Soccer fans are still trying call their version of football as "Football" when it is really just a generic term for any football. They want to hang on to this name as though they are the sole originators, though Rugby and Soccer football both originated equally.
Well, i won't let them do it!

But now, football was divided into two separate camps. Some colleges and schools preferred to follow rules drawn up by Rugby School - rules which permitted tripping, shin-kicking and carrying the ball - all forbidden by the Cambridge rules.

On 26 October 1863, eleven London clubs and schools sent their representatives to a meeting in the Freemason's Tavern to establish a single set of fundamental rules to govern the matches played amongst them.

This meeting created The Football Association.

The supporters of the Rugby School rules walked out - and On 8 December 1863, Association Football and Rugby Football finally split.

http://worldsoccer.about.com/cs/history ... istart.htm

Originally Posted by DDT

Apparently you are right about this. However, both soccer and rugby came from the same game of football which split apart forever in 1863. Soccer fans are still trying call their version of football as "Football" when it is really just a generic term for any football.
Well, i won't let them do it!

But now, football was divided into two separate camps. Some colleges and schools preferred to follow rules drawn up by Rugby School - rules which permitted tripping, shin-kicking and carrying the ball - all forbidden by the Cambridge rules.

On 26 October 1863, eleven London clubs and schools sent their representatives to a meeting in the Freemason's Tavern to establish a single set of fundamental rules to govern the matches played amongst them.

This meeting created The Football Association.

The supporters of the Rugby School rules walked out - and On 8 December 1863, Association Football and Rugby Football finally split.

http://worldsoccer.about.com/cs/history ... istart.htm

Hey now, so you quoted it yourself! Football was the original game and Rugbyites peeled of to create their own game. You are just a bunch of splitters! And you want to drag the name "football" with you! Well, I won't let you!

Back to the real football... How about those Broncos on Monday night!!!

Aussie Rules rules!

Originally Posted by DDT

Aussie Rules rules!

Oh yeah, that popular global sport!

Football

Originally Posted by Ramil

Russian football is the joke alike the English cuisine.

CSKA 1-0 Arse-nal!

Originally Posted by GabCNesbitt

Originally Posted by Ramil

Russian football is the joke alike the English cuisine.

CSKA 1-0 Arse-nal!

Did you see many russians in CSKA? It's more like Brazilian team!

Welcome to real world football Where the drive to win supercedes they drive to have all Russians on the team!

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

Welcome to real world football Where the drive to win supercedes they drive to have all Russians on the team!

Sorry, kalinka, but I can't understand the second sentence. Can you translate it to Russian, please?

Originally Posted by Basil77

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

Welcome to real world football Where the drive to win supercedes they drive to have all Russians on the team!

Sorry, kalinka, but I can't understand the second sentence. Can you translate it to Russian, please?

добро пожаловать в настоящий футбол! Где стремление выигрывать больше чем желание держать в команде одних русских!

EDIT:

Добро пожаловать в настоящий футбол_! Где стремление выигрывать больше чем желание держать в команде одниx русских!

Спасибо за перевод! Но я бы предпочёл, чтобы легионеров брали как в английском чемпионате - только классных игроков, кто играет в своих национальных сборных. А у нас понабрали всякий сброд. Неужели такого-то класса игроков нельзя тут найти?