#AskAnExpert - The Beautiful Game
And as a result of doing that, I have been able to network and meet people that I couldn't have possibly dreamed of meeting when I first started following the sport all of those years ago. On the tactical side of things, do I know some? Yeah, I think I do. Am I good enough to be a coach of a team? Maybe a peewee team? Certainly not anything higher than that
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:13
And it's confusing to communicate to people about football when you're not talking about football. So can you talk about the evolution of the name football in America? And when do you think it's going to shift or will it ever shift or is it ever going to be easier than it is now? Because right now, if you say somebody, hey, there's a great football game on, they're going to think you're talking about football
They are for the exact same sport. I think the ownership of the word football, especially when it comes to the UK, it's certainly been around for, I would say, the last 40, 50 years. But before that, my understanding is that people used the word football and the word soccer fairly interchangeably and it wasn't really a huge problem to do. So now, when you look at the world and who calls the sports soccer, it really is fairly limited
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:09
That was great. Thank you for the context. And I'm going to continue to call it the beautiful game now that I learned that that's the thing. The beautiful game. Love it