In Germany they call soccer Fußball (pronouced FOOS-ball). This is funny because that's our English word for a table game with hard plastic men lined up on metal rods with big heads and blocks for feet spinning very fast and knocking a ball into a goal. One can imagine a world in which this was always how German-English language relationships worked. For example, the German word for farming is Landwirtschaft. In English, landwirtschaft would be our word for hard plastic men lined up on metal rods with big heads and blocks for feet spinning very fast and planting crops.
Soccer is one of Germany's most cherished pastimes.
These foosball players wish they weren't suspended from metal rods.
Photo: Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL) via Flickr (CC)
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