Thursday, June 29, 2006

You Call It Football, I Call It ποδόσφαιρο

This morning, I thought I would put together a list of the words different countries use for football, at no added charge.

Listed below, in order of the most commonly used words, are the 32 countries competing in the 2006 World Cup. I don't know what word Iran uses, and if there are glaring errors, please leave a comment!

football (6; called le football or le foot in CIV, FRA, & TOG)
Côte d'Ivoire, England, France, Ghana, Togo, Trinidad & Tobago

fútbol (6)
Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Spain

futebol (3)
Angola, Brazil, Portugal

soccer (2)
Australia, USA


Fußball (2)
Germany, Switzerland

kurat al qadam (2)
Saudi Arabia, Tunisia

nogomet (1)
Croatia

fotbal (1)
Czech Republic

Iran ???

calcio (1)
Italy

sakka (サッカー) (1)
Japan

voetbal (1)
Netherlands

piłka nożna (1)
Poland

fudbalski (1)
Serbia and Montenegro

chook gu (축구) (1)
South Korea

fotboll (1)
Sweden

футболу (1)
Ukraine

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