suusj wrote:

Hope that they play well tonight and tommorow

You mean Heracles vs RKC?  Yeah, me too!

Suusj wrote:

nope didn't mean those.

but he, PSV is playin glike sh....t they won I know but they played like they were in the bothem 3..., and they lost wednesday, so that's good for ajax. Then twente who had a tie (is that how you call it???).

So all ajax has to do is win . they are 3 point ahead of all the others and all the others already played. Playing de graafschap, it's gotta be like 10 - 0 . On the other hand. When you think it's an easy game... well will see .

Yep, even I can't believe PSV won last night! Haha! After a while the were 1-2 behind on AZ! And then in the last seconds 3-2!

Yeah, Ajax has a good position! They just win today from the Graafschap. But you never know indeed! One thing is for sure, it's a damn exciting season this year!

Here's an interesting origin of the name soccer:

"Soccer's etymology is not American but British. It comes from an abbreviation for Association Football, the official name of the sport (for those of you who have never heard the team "Association Football" before, it was named after the Football Association, which still governs English soccer, to differentiate itself from the other major type of football, Rugby Football, which was named after the Rugby School. FIFA, the world governing body of soccer, is French for the International Federation of Association Football… F-I-F-A). For obvious reasons, in the 1880s and 1890s, English newspapers couldn't use the first three letters of Association as an abbreviation in their pages, so they took the next syllable, S-O-C. With the British penchant for adding "-er" at the end of words: punter, footballer, copper, and, of course, nicknaming rugby, "rugger," the word "soccer" was soon born, over a hundred years ago, here in England, the home of soccer. We adopted it and kept using it because we have our own indigenous sport that we call football."

Ref: http://www.usembassy.org.uk/rss/transcr … 2006a.html

There seem to be at least five countries that call the sport of soccer (internationally known as football) "soccer", and those are Australia, South Africa, Canada, Ireland and the United States of America. Any others?

spocklogic wrote:

Here's an interesting origin of the name soccer:

"Soccer's etymology is not American but British. It comes from an abbreviation for Association Football, the official name of the sport (for those of you who have never heard the team "Association Football" before, it was named after the Football Association, which still governs English soccer, to differentiate itself from the other major type of football, Rugby Football, which was named after the Rugby School. FIFA, the world governing body of soccer, is French for the International Federation of Association Football… F-I-F-A). For obvious reasons, in the 1880s and 1890s, English newspapers couldn't use the first three letters of Association as an abbreviation in their pages, so they took the next syllable, S-O-C. With the British penchant for adding "-er" at the end of words: punter, footballer, copper, and, of course, nicknaming rugby, "rugger," the word "soccer" was soon born, over a hundred years ago, here in England, the home of soccer. We adopted it and kept using it because we have our own indigenous sport that we call football."

Ref: http://www.usembassy.org.uk/rss/transcr … 2006a.html

There seem to be at least five countries that call the sport of soccer (internationally known as football) "soccer", and those are Australia, South Africa, Canada, Ireland and the United States of America. Any others?

WOW!! You really looked into it! Did not know this facts.
Got a bit whiser today, thanks!

#Paul, ajax won. I heard it was not there best game but hey, 3 point are in the pocket!

Well I geuss it is almost over for believing in a big party in Eindhoven. Well I'm lucky that I still have queens night to celebrate :p but maybe there is a slight chance???? :p

Paulovic wrote:

Let's take two minutes of silence here for the death of Piermario Morosini, please! So sad what happened this weekend! :-(

That was pretty sad. Poor guy had already gone through more than his fair share of personal tragedy at only 25 years old.

On a football note, I'm a supporter of Yeovil Town which, if they were in the Dutch league, would probably be about third right now. Dutch football is pretty dreadful. National team's pretty good, mind. I watched them beat England at Wembley a couple months back. Not that beating England is exactly a great achievement but still.

The U.S. men's soccer team's failure to qualify for the Olympics in 2012 is not good for the future of the sport in the USA, having also failed to make the Olympics in 2004. In addition to absence in the under-20 World Cup in 2011, the Men's world cup teams in USA generally fail to get it done on an international stage. The Women's team has always been fairly competitive, even winning it all in 1999. This actually boosted the sport greatly in USA, but interest has waned in the last decade because the men's team can't seem to compete well. It's inexplicable how a country the size of the USA can continue to disappoint in Soccer. Without some success (by the Men) the sport will never fully blossom in the USA. This latest failure to make the Olympics is a worrying trend...

Your viewpoint is well taken, George, and thanks for the input. The sport is actually more popular with younger people than older Americans since it has become part of school sports programs. Maybe in time it will gain popularity and become more of as national sport with the coming generation in the USA.

So Ajax won yesterday!! :-D. SOrry paul, it's 2 in a row for us hahha (Like I did anything to win :p).

So another question. Who is going to win the European championship? We have the worst postition to start! With germany and Portugal (remeber that one with over 20 yellow/red cards?) and Germany, as always, it's so bitter sweet... So I hope they do good but I don't think we will be doing annything special....

Well you are  a PSV supporter right?

LZ786 wrote:

we indian are now days busy in watchin indian premeare league. CRICKET

Sorry, but this is off topic