Clash with European season creates Olympic soccer headache

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It’s not soccer but football,when you refer what we play in Europe.

Plus the majority of the world do not use the word soccer.

We’re not all Americans.

William77...

The word soccer is actually a British English word.

Rugby football was nicknamed "rugger" and Association Football was called "assoccer" but became soccer as it was easier to pronounce.

As for Olympic Soccer/football..... Seriously. nobody cares. Its irrelevant to football fans.

This from AP is just nonsense. Even without Covid, soccer never would have been the event that connects Tokyo with the rest of the nation. AP just looks foolish when they publish stuff like this. Baseball, judo, volleyball (as in 64) or even karate are the sports that have the potential to do that in Japan. Nobody here cares about Olympic soccer, oh sorry, Football.

Well, a golden opportunity for the host to win gold.

@William

Well. as the readers for this site would be a diverse bunch that’s probably why they use the word soccer instead of football.

In Australia we call it soccer because football refers to Australian rules football, in America football refers to their style (gridiron)

Of the seven stadiums, five are away from the Tokyo area, with Sapporo about a 100-minute flight north of the capital.

Whatever happened to "the compact Olympics" Tokyo promised?

Scheduling could've been a lot easier if it were in October but you can thank NBC for that.

Let’s clear up this nomenclature issue, shall we?

Bunch of overpaid prima donnas kicking a ball around: football (UK) / soccer (US)

Bunch of big guys who have to wear a ton of padding to basically play rugby: football (US) / American Football (UK)

Bunch of guys who would eat the preceding two groups for breakfast: rugby.

It’s not soccer but football,when you refer what we play in Europe.

We're not in Europe. It's called soccer in Japan.

@ tristis

Which rugby,League or union?

@ tristis

Which rugby,League or union?

In terms of toughness? Six and two threes.

In terms of entertainment? Union. League is too full of people who use words like “ecky -thump” and “aye appen”.

Wow! A lot of salty soccer fans out there!

All this article aside, what stands out for me is that this sport, call it what you want, is clearly the mostly likely to be a super spreader with the sheer numbers of players, countries & their stars coming form OTHER countries, sadly it makes for a dangerous tourney that is spread ALL OVER Japan!.......

@GW The recent England v Scotland game in the Euros led to 2,000 Scots getting Covid after travelling down to London for the game. This in a country where 50% have been totally vaccinated and there were only 25,000 people at the game.

So yeah, there certainly could be a problem.

Football is great, I’m looking forward to watching it. Shame last nights England match was so late, it sounded jolly good fun.

Some worry that this could be a super spreader, but it won’t. The supporters in Japan do not act the way the Scottish ones do.