Talk:United States Soccer Federation

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Why is it called Soccer and not Fotbol?

    - Because 'Fotbol' is not a word...

Interestingly, this may be an archaic carry over from England where the game originated (in the present form). It is known in Football in England. However it used to be known as "soccer" in public schools (in the UK 'public schools' are the expensive, private, fee paying schools, not the state funded schools). "Soccer" is an abbreviation of "Association" - Association Football - in the same way that public school boys refer to Rugby Football as "Rugger". I believer the abbreviation of a longer word to a short one ending in "-er" was popular at the turn of 1900 (though this last fact I cannot prove). So it looks like as the game was forming in the USA, it took "Soccer", also presumably to differentiate from their local version of Football (which we in the UK call "American Football" to differentiate it from 'real' football ;-) ).

[edit] Cups Won

i think there should be a section for cups won (US Open Cup, CONCACAF Gold Cup, etc.). Streamless 15:06, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Soccer an american take on british slang for associated. The word associated is from associated football. So they say...

[edit] Leagues

There is no mention of the Pacific Coast Soccer League or the National Premier Soccer League in this article. NHammen 04:24, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Criteria for "Current Players"

What is the criteria for the inclusion of one player over another? Why is Hartman listed but not Reis? Reis was a World Cup alternate, Hartman was not, Why is Quaranta listed? I think for the men the players should be the core players on the actual roster and alternates roster for the most recent tournament/game, same for the women. Batman2005 21:01, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I'm going to be bold and delete the current players, as this information is already covered in much more depth on the National Team pages from both genders, I'll provide a link to those respective pages. I don't see the need to include the information twice in wikipedia. Batman2005 21:04, 15 June 2006 (UTC)