different between soccer vs futsal

English

Alternative forms

• socker, socca

Etymology

British English; Colloquial abbreviation for association football, via abbreviation assoc. +? -er (slang suffix); earlier socker (1885), also socca (1889), with soccer attested 1888.

Compare contemporary rugger, from Rugby, and note vulgar connotations of analogous *asser if abbreviating on first syllable. Similarly constructed coinages from the same period include: brekker (“breakfast”), fresher (“freshman”) and footer (“football”). See Oxford -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?k.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?k.?/
• Rhymes: -?k?(?)

Noun

soccer (uncountable)

1. association football

   Synonyms: (UK, formal, rarely used) association football, soccer football, (ambiguous) football; see also Thesaurus:football

Usage notes

• football (“soccer”) is more commonly used in the UK, Ireland, and many other places in the world, with the exception of the US, Canada, Australia, and South Africa.

Derived terms

• soccer mom

Related terms

• rugger

Descendants

Translations

Verb

soccer (third-person singular simple present soccers, present participle soccering, simple past and past participle soccered)

1. (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.

References

Further reading

• soccer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Association football on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Croces, escroc, scorce

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.kœ?/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): [s?.k?], [s?.kaœ??]

Noun

soccer m (uncountable)

1. (Canada, Quebec, Louisiana) soccer (association football)

Synonyms

• football m

See also

• football américain
• football canadien

Anagrams

• escroc

English

Etymology

From Portuguese futsal, a blend of futebol de salão (literally “hall football”).

Noun

futsal (uncountable)

1. A form of soccer played indoors, with five players per team.

Synonyms

• five-a-side football
• indoor soccer

Translations

Anagrams

• faults, flatus, ustalf

Czech

Noun

futsal m

1. futsal

Further reading

• futsal in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Portuguese

Etymology

Blend of futebol de +? salão, literally hall football.

Noun

futsal m (uncountable)

1. futsal (form of soccer)

   Synonym: futebol de salão

Spanish

Etymology

From Portuguese futsal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fut?sal/, [fut??sal]

Noun

futsal m (uncountable)

1. futsal (form of soccer)

   Synonyms: fútbol sala, fútbol de salón, fútsal, futsala, microfútbol