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vfl | soccer |

As an initialism vfl

is (historical|australia|sport) victorian football]] league; an australian rules football league formed in victoria, australia, in 1896; renamed the [[w:australian football league|australian football league (afl) in 1990 after expansion to other states starting in the 1980s.

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.

vfl

English

Initialism

(Initialism) (head)
  • (historical, Australia, sport) Victorian Football]] League; an Australian rules football league formed in Victoria, Australia, in 1896; renamed the [[w:Australian Football League, Australian Football League (AFL) in 1990 after expansion to other states starting in the 1980s.
  • * 2006', Ian W. Shaw, '' The Bloodbath: The 1945 '''VFL Grand Final , Scribe Publications, ISBN 9781920769970.
  • * 2006 , Ross Booth, 58: The economic development of the Australian Football League'', Wladimir Andreff, Stefan Szyma?ski (editors), ''Handbook on Economics of Sport , page 553,
    • The VFL began with eight clubs: Carlton; Collingwood; Essendon; Fitzroy; Geelong; Melbourne; St Kilda; and South Melbourne.
  • * 2009 , Kate Darian-Smith, On the Home Front: Melbourne in Wartime: 1939-1945 , page 164,
    • The professional Victorian Football League (VFL') matches attracted more than 100000 spectators weekly from 1939 until 1941. In 1942, however, the ' VFL lost half of its football fields to ancillary and military services.
  • (Australia, sport) ; a second-tier regional (country area) Australian rules football league operating within Victoria; derived from the historic Victorian Football Association, from which the future AFL broke in 1896.
  • (US) Vocabulary Football League.

    • Usage notes

    Where historical continuity is desired (such as when compiling statistics), the organisation that is now the AFL is often referred to as the VFL/AFL'''''. The now VFL may be referred to as the '''''VFA/VFL .

    Anagrams

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    soccer

    English

    (wikipedia soccer)

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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.

    • Usage notes

    *football (meaning "soccer") is more commonly used in the UK.

    Synonyms

    * association football * football

    Derived terms

    * soccer mom

    Related terms

    * rugger

    See also

    * (Association football)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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.
    • The rule seems to have encouraged players to soccer the ball along the ground.
  • * 2008 , John Devaney, Full Points Footy?s WA Football Companion , 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.
  • * 2010 March 27, Michael Whiting, “Lions give Fev debut to remember”, AFL - The official site of the Australian Football League .
    • 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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