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Just to clarify, as I myself was confused, this Fantasy Football is not American Football, but ... actual football which Americans refer to as soccer.

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5.7 billion people refer to it as football, 300 million refer to it as soccer. Any time you see the word football and any non American person, it's probably talking about association football.

But that doesn't correctly represent the proportions of hacker new readers that would call it soccer. Since this web site was started in the u.s. and is almost entirely English speaking that heavily selects users from English speaking countries, both north America, and in particular the u.s., and especially silicon valley.

I would't be surprised if majority of HN views are from outside North America as of now. There are likely more English speakers in Bangalore than in Silicon Valley.

So what? A thousand trillion people could speak some way, and it wouldn't make it somehow illegitimate for a village of 100 people to speak a different dialect.

More people in the world eat rice than bread, does that mean cultures that eat bread are wrong?

In English, though, the distribution of meaning of the word “football” is more like:

340 million: Grid Iron

60 million: soccer

15 million: Aussie Rules (proper footy)

10 million: Rugby League

5 million: Rugby Union

Probably some Gaelic Football in there too for good measure.

And Australians... and Canadians say soccer.

Australia and New Zealand are officially now using 'football' rather than soccer for association football.

The Australian football or footy is something else, a bit like rugby.

Yes but their National 'soccer' association now calls themselves Football Federation Australia, in line with international usage.

And the national team[1] is “the Socceroos”

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_national_soccer_te...

If you're talking about the shape of the ball, yes. Otherwise, no.

But with Orcs and wizards? I'd expect something like Blood Bowl from that name.

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