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Football Victoria becomes "AFL Victoria"
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Still though in branding you have to have an international perspective. Soccer is internationally known as football (sorry to the boys down their in myopic Victoria). To distinguish a brand you need to use another term - to me is seems as though it should have been 'Aussie Rules' but I don't know the full story.
Soccer is called Soccer in America so are you telling me that you are going to tell Americans what to do and force them to call Soccer, Football? Soccer is ********, deal with it. Aussie Rules is Football in Australia again, deal with it.
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Another Victory for Football Federation Australia ....
http://footballvic.com.au/default.aspx?s=newsdisplay&aid=115194
According to our governing body, our game is no longer "football".
Get ready for Melburnians and the media to be forced to call our game "AFL" like our friends in Sydney and Brisbane.
This will open the doors for Football Federation Victoria to trade under the banner of Football Victoria, like they've been wanting to do since the advent of the FFA.
Strongest brand my butcake. I wonder how much the AFL paid to stick their gay logo over our state's peak body. While it might not be right now, the end of the old VFL logo is nigh. VFA fans get ready for "AFL Victoria State League" ... SANFL fans get ready for "AFL South Australia" and WA fans get ready for "AFL Western Australia" ... whatever happened to identity in our sport ?
The Soccer people will not be able to call themselves Football Victoria....
"While using the trading name AFL Victoria, the AFL Victoria board will maintain the legal/corporate identity of Football Victoria Ltd"
The soccer organisation in WA calls themselves
http://www.footballwest.com.au/content/view/4/15/
Football West.
No its intentionally run in tandem with the European Leagues
The A-League semi-final went head-to-head with Oz v Poms in Cricket first final & got the same crowd
Consider that this was CLUB football & around THIRD tier on a world scale (ie: equivalent of Serie C, League 1, etc). The cricket was an INTERNATIONAL & of the 'highest' standard for its game.
There were 85,000 ticket requests to Ticketmaster on Wednesday alone, but they could only sell the 25,000 tickets available - the FFA cocked up & the MCG would have sold out EASILY (I heard it was a similar issue for Sydney FC for their GF last year - it should have been at Telstra Stadium)
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racist much?
True, but eventually people could start calling it AFL and forget what the 'F' means.
In truth, Soccer is short for "Association Football" (this is where the word soccer came from) so whenever you say soccer you are really just calling it Association Football.
The fact is that calling the game AFL does take out the word Football, but when you look at the Australian media, they are increasingly calling it AFL and calling the world game football.
Soccer is an American word - I speak English. In english, the beautiful game is called football.
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why do people keep on comparing Aus to America. We are not america. ok, noone likes americans. They are annoying and ignorant people. Don't say its okay to call football "sokka" just because the stupid americans do it. Its football, always has been always will be.
No it hasn't it was called "Soccer Australia" right up to a couple of years ago wasn't it?
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i'm saying what the actual name of the game is. IT's FIFA not SIFA ya fool.
No it's not - It's SOCCER.
It's only Football in the countries where it is the leading sport. In all the other countries, it is SOCCER.
It has never been "Football" in the country. It has always been "Soccer" because it has never been the number one sport, and the number one sport (Aussie Rules) always gets the generic name of "Football."
All that has happened, is that a couple of arrogant SOCCER administrators have tried to force a name change upon us that is unnatural and innapropriate. We are Australians - we call Association Football "Soccer" and we call Aussie Rules and Rugby League "Football" depending on whether you are in the northern or southern states.
People will call a sport whatever they want to call it. Administrators shouldn't go about forcing a name change that goes against the sporting culture of our country, to fuel their own arrogance and their own ego. It's ridiculous.
It's as if they think there is only one form of football or something.
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/football
Main Entry: foot·ball
Pronunciation: 'fut-"bol
Function: noun
1 : any of several games played between two teams on a usually rectangular field having goalposts or goals at each end and whose object is to get the ball over a goal line, into a goal, or between goalposts by running, passing, or kicking: as a British : SOCCER b British : RUGBY c : an American game played between two teams of 11 players each in which the ball is in possession of one side at a time and is advanced by running or passing d Australian : AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL e Canadian : CANADIAN FOOTBALL
2 a : an inflated oval ball used in the game of football b British : a soccer ball
3 : something treated roughly especially as the subject of a prolonged dispute <the issue became a political football in Congress>
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i don't like you dan 26. You need to get out more. Ok. Get a bit of culture in your life. 36 thousand posts. Seriously, you need a woman.
I havn't had 36,000 posts champ.... I'm just being cheeky with the side-bar.
But forget about me.... keep to the topic. By the way, the sport that FIFA runs is actually called ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL. That is the name, and the term SOCCER was invented by the British.
But forget about me.... keep to the topic. By the way, the sport that FIFA runs is actually called ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL. That is the name, and the term SOCCER was invented by the British.
Interesting.
Is no. 1 determined by TV audience? Gate attendances? Participation rates?
It's determined by every day Joe Schmoe. Argue as much as you want, it won't change the pecking order.
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it's football to me still.
I don't know. Any and all?
By whatever measure, Aussie Rules has always and remains number one by a considerable margin in the southern states.
But the true test of what is number one is to see what code gets "naturally" called Football by the general public, in normal conversation. What code gets the generic name of "Football."
That code has always been Aussie Rules or Rugby League depending on what part of Australia you are from.
Why can't people accept, that different people call different sports different things in different parts of the world?
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because football is the only truly national football code in Australia it would be the most popular aussie sport.
The word football in Australia relates to Australian Rules Football, in NSW and Qld it refers to rugby league. Soccer has always been known as Soccer, what's with the obsession with renaming it and confusing everyone. The number one code in any given state should be known as Football, until Soccer takes over as #1 it should remain soccer.
Why don't you people like the term 'soccer' ?, everyone knows what your talking about when you use the term.
Why don't you people like the term 'soccer' ?, everyone knows what your talking about when you use the term.
Well why make a definitive statement that its number 1? (no wonder people get called insular)
It might help to say "...based on Tv ratings & gate attendances it is no.1..."
Nice selective use of the "quote" function you dill.
Did "any and all" not strike a chord with you?
The point is it's number one. Of that, there is no debate.
Why does Rugby League get called Football? Heck let's call Basketball, Football? Maybe even Polo?
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what other football code is a truly national sport. Rugby isn't big in Vic, NT,SA,WA. Aussie rules isn't big in NSW or QLD. Football is big in every state and territory. So no i am not an idiot. And quit laughing.
