Jonathan Wilson: Grondona backs down amid outcry over combining top divisions

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There was always a suspicion that River Plate's relegation was going to prompt radical changes in Argentinian soccer. There was a hope that it would lead clubs to accept that sensible financial management is a must and a recognition that places in the top flight must be earned. But no. The Argentinian Football Association -- at least initially -- did what it did last time one of the Big Five was relegated (San Lorenzo in 1981) and decided that the system of relegation itself must be at fault. Yesterday, though, the president of AFA, Julio Grondona, in the face of mounting public pressure, backtracked.
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After reading "Argentinian soccer" I feel an urge to shoot someone.
 
Kris said:
What is it that people don’t understand about that? Sports Illustrated is an AMERICAN sports magazine and they call football...SOCCER.

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And I'm from Argentina and I hate the term soccer. Oh, and just in case... we call it FOOTBALL. Or "fútbol", to be more precise.

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Athe~ said:
And I'm from Argentina and I hate the term soccer. Oh, and just in case... we call it FOOTBALL. Or "fútbol", to be more precise.

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and if I were reading an Argentine blog or article I'd understand if they wrote fútbol.
 
Athe~ said:
And I'm from Argentina and I hate the term soccer. Oh, and just in case... we call it FOOTBALL. Or "fútbol", to be more precise.

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And what is wrong with the term soccer, exactly? Let me guess, you kick it with your foot, right, so it should be called football? Care to explain then why it isn't called something along the lines of "pelota de pie" in Spanish and Portuguese? Or why it's called calcio (which means heel) in Italy? Fútbol is a meaningless word in Spanish that is simply the hispanicization of the English word 'football.' At least the term 'soccer' has an actual history. Football was orginally called association football, or assoc. football for short, and eventually was sometimes called 'soccer' (from assoc.) as a nickname (and this is in England, mind you). Because rugby was developing at the same time (and a rugby like sport that eventually became gridiron football), which was also called football, countries where rugby/gridiron was popular (USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, places in the Caribbean, etc.) preferred to use the term 'soccer' instead. I'd rather that be the history behind the word I call this sport than the bastardization of a word in a different language.
 
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Well, to be honest football, or what you call soccer, was the first thing to be called football. Then came Rugby Football and American Football etc... So the term that was originally coined for football and only football in the begining should now be called something else? Crazy

People use a 'net' to catch fish, and in more recent times a there is a football 'net'. So i guess we should rename the fishing equipment so we arnt confused right? Lets call it the fishy catchy device
 
@Curtis: So you call a sport in which you hardly kick the ball 'football', and you call football 'soccer'. Mkay.
 
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