Us guys in good 'ol America are having a great time sitting back and laughing about how you guys are getting so worked up about a soccer (and yes, I called it SOCCER) tournament.  

LoL, if you want me to come back on that comment and start flaming america fine, you guys can't care anymore because despite having an ok team, you can't make it out of the group stage (campare it to the NBA, first theres a league, and then theres the "playoffs, where you win to go through if you lose, your out, unless you lose the semi finals you play in the match for 3rd place))

ad for all those people agruing bout rooney and ronaldo, its all because of Sven, his 4-1-4-1 system is totally not englands style england is a 4-4-2 team AND GERMANY IS GOING OT WIN, and i have to laugh so much that france beat brazil, lol in my eyes i'm half satisfyed, only a european team can win now, although ill be very unhappy if france win. And btw unlike the "superbowl" this tournament is held once every four years, 1.6 billion people are watching it LIVE(theres 6.5 billion people in the world, calculate how many of these people actually have a TV and you get pretty much any , i wonder how many others are watching it on replays because of time difference, anyhoes, all the amaericans care about is being scared, if you watch the news in america you can tell they're scared about something (can't post racist comments here)

Soccer is a strange abbreviation of "Association Football" if I remember it right.

I believe the word was used to differentiate from other football-like games in
the early times after the rules for football as we know it now were written down.

The name Association Football is still around, for example in "FIFA".

FIFA = Fédération Internationale de Football Association


Edit: Yep, I was right. Here's an excerpt from the Wikipedia article:

lol I was hoping someone would take the bait.      

Here goes nothing.  First, if you're trying to insult us, bad try, because none of us care what you wackos in Europe think.  If you're trying to insult our soccer team, just look at your "NFL Europe".  Compared to the original NFL, you're a pathetic joke, almost a mockery.

Also, the NBA comptes every year, which means we get trophies faster.  Plus, since its all in the US (with a few notable exceptions in Canada) basketball is much less likely to start an international war (which, if my memory serves me, has happened on at least one occasion in soccer).

The entire nature of American sports differ from Europe in the fact that ours is simply more organized.  We work of a schedule and follow it like clockwork.  

Oh, and we dont care how many people watch the sports events, what we care about is that the superbowl matters to us in fact and tradition, while the world cup has no bearing on us whatsoever.

Wow.  You actually care?  I'm just arguing to raise my post cout.  Go figure.    

Tuesday, 21:00 CET, Dortmund

Germany vs. Italy

WHoa whoa whoa no need to be insulting    

Heh I was hoping for the penalties, it would be more dramatic that way
A very even game tho, both teams could have won it