Ball skills

English teachers representing!

Ha, that is not a soccer ball or a football. It is a beach ball with a bad print job! But kudos on the fun photo just the same.

You can often see people doing little performances there for the camera in the brief interlude before the lights change again. Getting a bit unoriginal by now, but usually fun all the same!

i would love to play one on one with the chic, she seems pretty good.

U.S. residents in Japan kick a soccer ball at Shibuya’s famous scramble crossing in Tokyo on Monday morning, to celebrate their country’s 5-2 victory over Japan in the Women’s World Cup final in Vancouver.

A 5-2 victory is one way to see it. Or a 5-2 massacre, especially that 1st half. Congratulations USA. That put the cherry on top of a great 4th July weekend holiday-

Just to clear things up, soccer is played with a football, not a soccerball.

Just to clear things up, soccer is played with a football, not a soccerball.

I think if there is a name for the ball, today it has the right to be called a soccer ball.

any more of these pranks I wonder if the Japanese will be confused into thinking the "Lovely Game" originated in the USA much as they do with Halloween

The female player looks every healthy, fit and worthy of conversation. Wish idiotic fellow country people of the UK would stop whining about 'It's not soccer' well, yes it is. Soccer was what we in the UK first called the game, from Association Football, before it became known as football. If the game should be called ANYTHING it should be either fußball or futebol but certainly today: Soccer.

think if there is a name for the ball, today it has the right to be called a soccer ball.

"Soccer" is a contraction of "Association Football", which is distinguished from Rugby Football or American Football. The ball used in soccer is by definition a football.

How do we know these are US residents?

How do we know these are US residents?

Because no other human beings would have the gall to behave like this in public...

What would happen if Japan wont the super bowl (unlikely i know ;o) and then went celebrating in time square? Pride and arrogance are not the same thing.

@Ah-so, (Ain' that right!) it is as much a soccer ball as a football. Dude!

It's a "togger bollock". Nobody else remember that?

woops typo, i wanted to say:

What would happen if Japan won the super bowl (unlikely i know ;o) and then the Japanese went celebrating in time square? Pride and arrogance are not the same thing.

Or worse, what if Japan won and the fans go on social media and say something like "Revenge for Hiroshima! Banzai! Banzai! Banzai!".

cough US fans cough Pearl Harbor cough.

What would happen if Japan won the super bowl (unlikely i know ;o) and then the Japanese went celebrating in time square?

NY considers itself an international city, so won't have a problem with it.

Any city that considers itself an international city shouldn't have a problem with it.

Lostrune2, are you American by any chance? LOL

@ Lostrune2

"NY considers itself an international city, so won't have a problem with it.

Any city that considers itself an international city shouldn't have a problem with it."

This does not mean that if Japan won a huge global sporting event and went to Time Square and gloated as the above pic shows the AmerKians doing it would not be seen as rude immature and down right arrogant. Oh but were talking about AmeriKia so its ok... and yes i know i spelt it with a K

^ Nope, NYers won't care. They know they're a multinational city. And the rest of America knows NY is a multinational city, so they accept such things could happen in NY.