Soccer vs Nonsoccer - What's the difference?
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Association football]], a game in which two teams of eleven players contend to get a round ball into their opponent's goal primarily by kicking the ball with their [[foot, feet.
(Australian rules football) To kick the football directly off the ground, without using one's hands.
* 1990 Geoffrey Blainey, A Game of Our Own: The Origins of Australian Football , 2003, Black Inc. Publishing, p73.
* 2008 , John Devaney, Full Points Footy?s WA Football Companion ,
* 2010 March 27, Michael Whiting, “Lions give Fev debut to remember”, AFL - The official site of the Australian Football League .
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That is not soccer or not related to soccer.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 4, author=The Associated Press, title=Italian Games Postponed After Officer Dies in Riots, work=New York Times
, passage=A minute’s silence was held in Italy over the weekend at all nonsoccer sports events. }}
As a noun soccer
is association football]], a game in which two teams of eleven players contend to get a round ball into their opponent's goal primarily by kicking the ball with their [[foot|feet.As a verb soccer
is (australian rules football) to kick the football directly off the ground, without using one's hands.As an adjective nonsoccer is
that is not soccer or not related to soccer.soccer
English
(wikipedia soccer)Noun
(-)Usage notes
*football (meaning "soccer") is more commonly used in the UK.Synonyms
* association football * footballDerived terms
* soccer momSee also
* (Association football)Verb
(en verb)- The rule seems to have encouraged players to soccer the ball along the ground.
page 334,
- West Perth seemed on the verge of victory, only to succumb by 4 points after a soccered goal from Old Easts with less than half a minute remaining.
- Fevola showed the best and worst of his play after dropping a simple chest mark, only to regather seconds later and soccer the ball through from the most acute of angles.
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