[EVENT] 2010 Global Soccer Festival

[TheDrop]

yes you could, which is the reason sports terminology doesnt mean shit.

[Amro]

[TheKnight]

I do wonder, my sister has a Spain flag, but when she got a hat it has something like Ireland flag/colors on it -.-'

[Amro]

I do wonder, my sister has a Spain flag, but when she got a hat it has something like Ireland flag/colors on it -.-'

you get random hats, just keep exchanging till you have one which you want

[sklein]

but the hats expire in 20th July ... dont???

and i have flags in my inventory and idk what to do ... wait till we know a world cup winner? xDDD

[Gladiator_RN]

but the hats expire in 20th July ... dont???

Yup the hats will dissapear after world cup.

[fckerr]

I bought a portugal one for 2m

[Timmeh]

You eurofags just call it what you want. That shit will forever be known as soccer for the northern western hemisphere.
You say football I think of patriots jets giants packers
you say soccer I think of Egyptians.I don't know any soccer teams I find the game seriously boring

OFT:

Football is the most popular sport in the world and is known globally as that. Glady stfu and gtfo, dumbass.

They carry the ball in their arms in your version for the most of gameplay, they use their "feet" rarely.

OTP:

Sounds good, an events an event and I'm not complaining.

[Bananaman]

Did you know that in Japan they call it soccer?

Im just saying.

[Goseki]

The Game is called Football. Soccer is just a sign of the USA's ignorance. Countries that were heavily influenced by the US shows signs of this. It's kinda like a sign of an illness.

[TheDrop]

The Game is called Football. Soccer is just a sign of the USA's ignorance. Countries that were heavily influenced by the US shows signs of this. It's kinda like a sign of an illness.

*sigh*
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php ... rd-soccer/

read it, learn it, and shut up

[Bananaman]

The Game is called Football. Soccer is just a sign of the USA's ignorance. Countries that were heavily influenced by the US shows signs of this. It's kinda like a sign of an illness.

*sigh*
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php ... rd-soccer/

read it, learn it, and shut up

Also take a look at this:
http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world- ... 70110.html

-Or just read the text below-

Elsewhere, football is football. The round-ball sport, the beautiful game, with its biggest prize to be handed out here on July 11.

Soccer? Pah, a silly American term created by a nation that has its own national obsession.

No country has been snootier toward the USA’s use of the term “soccer” than England. Before the Group C opener between the two sides in Rustenburg, the Sun newspaper even ran a spoof front page urging Fabio Capello’s side to win the “soccerball world series.”

But let’s take a halftime break here.

Coupled with their team’s humiliating exit from the World Cup it might be another rude awakening to the Brits that soccer isn’t an American term, it is actually an English one. And it isn’t some modern fad that shows disrespect to the world’s most popular sport, it dates back to the earliest days of the game’s professional history.

Indeed, until the last few decades, even Englishmen would routinely refer to their favorite pastime as soccer, just as often as they would say football.

Clive Toye, an Englishman who moved to the U.S. and became known as the father of modern American soccer, bringing Brazilian legend Pele to play for the New York Cosmos, takes up the story.

“Soccer is a synonym for football,” said Toye, who helped launch the North American Soccer League in the late 1960s. “And it has been used as such for more years than I can count. When I was a kid in England and grabbed a ball to go out and play … I would just as easily have said: ‘Let’s have a game of soccer’ as I would use the word ‘football’ instead. And I didn’t start it.”

To trace the origin of “soccer” we must go all the way back to 1863, and a meeting of gentlemen at a London pub, who congregated with the purpose of standardizing the rules of “football,” which was in its infant years as an organized sport but was growing rapidly in popularity.

Those assembled became the founding members of the Football Association (which still oversees the game in England to this day). And they decided to call their code Association Football, to differentiate it from Rugby Football.

A quirk of British culture is the permanent need to familiarize names by shortening them. “My friend Brian Johnston was Johnners,” said Toye. “They took the third, fourth and fifth letters of Association and called it SOCcer. So there you are.”

So forget that English condescension and carry on calling it soccer, safe in the knowledge that you’re more in tune with the roots of the sport than those mocking Brits.

take that Eurofags (and I say that term with love )

[magisuns]

ton of garbage

stop trying to be a troll and stick to ur usual banter

[lotri]

On topic, reward is a 3-hour buff, not a scroll =S. Turns out I wasted a 150% buff that way -.-"

[majincooler]

I had 31 Spain flags on my Wizard.

I wonder what am I going to win. Heard it's an EXP boost that can be stacked with PP.

[lotri]

It's a 3-hour exp buff that you can't pause. So only turn in your flag when you're about to go party/solo. Also, you can get different buffs depending on which country's flag you have. It's not just the winning team's flag that gives you a reward. I know a few people who NPC'd their flags when that team lost.... xD