• Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    4 days ago

    Apparently soccer is offensive even though I grew up in AYSO. i got in the habit of calling them association football and gridiron football, respectively.

    I thought the corruption of the leagues and the fanatcism of the US is bad and scary. Then I learned about FIFA. i had no idea.

    • trolololol@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      FIFA is not European, just because its headquarters are there.

      The kind of corruption you see there is more typical of South America. And it was a Brazilian who took it from yet another sport to the scale it is now.