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    Image of Trumpet Trumpet
    06/26/09

    In reply to How FIFA Became The Biggest Sports Game In The World
    Please please please can you stop referring to it as soccer. Football is football and american football is just that. Football was called football long before Americans decided to name a sport, that is hardly even played with feet, football.
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    Image of phicaluk phicaluk
    06/26/09

    @Trumpet: Soccer is short for "Association Football", it's a piece of archaic English public schoolboy slang. See also: calling Rugby Football "rugger". Best not to think about what they call netball.
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    Image of Rod_Z Rod_Z
    06/26/09

    In reply to How FIFA Became The Biggest Sports Game In The World
    Americans, I have shocking news for you: Soccer is the most popular sport in the world!!!


    You may not like it, but it's the truth. So, it's only natural that a game based on soccer becomes "the biggest sports game in the world".

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    Image of Omnimon Omnimon
    06/26/09

    @Rod_Z: That's exactly what is eluded to in the first sentence of the article, Captain Obvious.
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    Image of (Zombie) Kermad (Zombie) Kermad
    06/26/09

    In reply to How FIFA Became The Biggest Sports Game In The World
    So because USA are in the final of the Confederations Cup, now we talk about football games?
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    Image of Neocorey Neocorey
    06/26/09

    @Kermad: This is what I was thinking, but I would LOVE to see other Americans more interested in soccer, MLS has been going downhill since it started, and no one really cares for our soccer team. I tried telling some of my sports buddies about how America, a team who only had 1 win, beat Spain, a team running a 30-something no loss streak, and they just brushed it off...
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    Image of Omnimon Omnimon
    06/26/09

    @Neocorey: It was a landmark win, but interest in the sport will dictate peoples' excitement of any result in said sport.
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    Image of SpishackCola is your Brodie, Brotron, and Brodington! SpishackCola is your Brodie, Brotron, and Brodington!
    06/26/09

    @Kermad:
    Uh, Luke is Austrailan and talks about soccer all the time on here. Now its when the other writers talk about soccer when you should have posted this.


    Anyway, Vaio sums it up pretty well. Too many other well-entrenched sports that soccer had to compete with in the USA for market share, and the perception that since we are never that good we just leave soccer to the rest of the world.

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    Image of Luke Plunkett Luke Plunkett
    06/26/09

    @SpishackCola posts comments Like A Boss: Glad SOMEBODY is paying attention here :)
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    Image of g2dat g2dat
    06/26/09

    In reply to How FIFA Became The Biggest Sports Game In The World
    Read the article in the mag the other day. Very interesting read.


    I had given up on football games in recent years as FIFA was rubbish and Pro Evo became stale in my opionion.


    I am seriously considering picking up FIFA 10 this year.

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    Image of Mike Newlad Mike Newlad
    06/26/09

    @g2dat: You should get FIFA09, the game rocks man - 08 was alright but not great, 09 is great here's hoping 2010 is amazing.
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    Image of Antiterra Antiterra
    05/05/09

    In reply to French Kid Beats 500,000 To Claim World FIFA Title
    Félicitations, Bruce!

    (Or should I say... "Bruce almighty"? Badum-pish!)


    For those who were wondering, the tournament was played on the PS3 and both finalists chose Manchester United.

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    Image of Earthjade Earthjade
    05/05/09

    In reply to French Kid Beats 500,000 To Claim World FIFA Title
    Was the final played on the PS3 or 360?
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    Image of Luke Plunkett Luke Plunkett
    05/05/09

    @Earthjade: Whole tournament was on PS3
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    Image of uchennaokafor uchennaokafor
    05/05/09

    In reply to French Kid Beats 500,000 To Claim World FIFA Title
    Yessh que in a bunch of Ameircan douchebags telling me how much football ("soccer" what-the-hell) sucks ass.
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    Image of uchennaokafor uchennaokafor
    05/05/09

    hehe@uchennaokafor: Hehe American, though I have no hate. I just detest those who try to argue NFL is an actual sport.
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    Image of Mr. Tambourine Man Mr. Tambourine Man
    05/05/09

    @uchennaokafor:


    Isn't NFL to American "foot"ball what FIFA is to football?

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    Image of ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness ShadowOdin of dubious snowiness
    05/05/09

    @Mr. Tambourine Man: No. The NFL is a national organization, while FIFA is international.
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    Image of R1KM4N R1KM4N
    05/05/09

    In reply to French Kid Beats 500,000 To Claim World FIFA Title
    Where was my invite to this?
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    Image of Mike Newlad Mike Newlad
    05/05/09

    @R1KM4N: Only on PS3
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    Image of elevenoverzero elevenoverzero
    05/05/09

    In reply to French Kid Beats 500,000 To Claim World FIFA Title
    inb4 people ask "But can he play real soccer?"
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    Image of Ladi Ladi
    05/05/09

    @elevenoverzero: But can he play real football?


    Call the sport by its name dammit!

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    Image of trunkenmath trunkenmath
    05/05/09

    @Ladi: It was called Soccer first. Short for "Association Football"
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    Image of SHERBO64 SHERBO64
    05/05/09

    @trunkenmath: Wouldn't you have to have association "football" first to be able to shorten it to soccer?
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    Image of SansSanity SansSanity
    05/05/09

    @SHERBO64: logical win!!


    +1 followers to you sir

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    Image of Mit Mit
    05/05/09

    In reply to French Kid Beats 500,000 To Claim World FIFA Title
    I want that controller on that trophy for my PS3.


    You know the one.


    Damn overrated Dualshocks.

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    Image of Ashurahori Ashurahori
    05/05/09

    @Mit: The release says that Wayne Industries originally took the contract to work on the controllers, but the deal went through because of problems with the top br...


    ...wait a minute.

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    Image of Ashurahori Ashurahori
    02/11/09

    In reply to More People Play FIFA Than You Could Possibly Imagine
    I always hear about how popular Madden is, but I've never seen it being sold in European shelves. Not in Portugal, at least. And considering most top ten game lists are made in the american market, it's probably because of that that Fifa isn't anywhere near them.
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    Image of David Whitney David Whitney
    02/11/09

    In reply to More People Play FIFA Than You Could Possibly Imagine
    I'm not a sports fan at all but being from the UK this doesn't surprise me.


    As recently stated, the UK is the "second nation" of video games and sales over here are very strong. Add to that Europe and the insane following football has...


    Actually as a European, I was always surprised how popular Madden was for the mirror reason. I guess I just never realised how big American football is in the USA until a few years ago.

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    Image of Luke Plunkett Luke Plunkett
    02/11/09

    @David Whitney: Plus American Football makes for good gaming, thanks to the strategic edge to the game
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    02/11/09

    In reply to More People Play FIFA Than You Could Possibly Imagine
    I want a crowd controll game taking place in footie stadiums around the world.
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    Image of Prathik Prathik
    02/11/09

    @CRRRUNK still Hated indeed! - crashcommando.org: I think there was one.. it was based around riots though..
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    Image of HenryHSH HenryHSH
    02/11/09

    @Prathik: I want to play that. o.o
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    Image of gtapradeep gtapradeep
    02/11/09

    In reply to More People Play FIFA Than You Could Possibly Imagine
    in PC it really sucks.

    No 10 vs 10.No next gen.

    and when i play online my stats are not getting updated.

    everything ruined.....arghh
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    Image of HenryHSH HenryHSH
    02/11/09

    @gtapradeep: Do you use the mouse to play? Haha.


    I swear one of FIFA PC's bullet points this year was Mouse control or something.

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    Image of jamesjohnson01 jamesjohnson01
    02/11/09

    In reply to More People Play FIFA Than You Could Possibly Imagine
    It's really quite incredible to me that so many of my fellow American friends have no idea that American "football" is a sport solely celebrated and worshiped religiously in America, and even moreso incredible how few of my friends knew that soccer (real football....you use your feet, you know), is much more popular than they think it to be.


    I.E. why David Beckham is more of a household name worldwide than any American football player.

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    02/11/09

    @James Johnson: actually ronaldo or cristiano ronaldo the most known and well loved/hated players of futbol..


    everyones knows thad beckham is a sellout and a cunt xD


    indeed gringos are al lil'helpless in that point of the NFL thing...


    most ppl outside USA have no clue about what's so interesting about NFL... at least baseball is more well known... but still far behind in support in it's home country

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    Image of TokeYo TokeYo
    02/11/09

    @jockve: I'd say Basketball is the most popular US export. I could name dozens (well maybe a dozen) of players. Baseball and NFL however I'm struggling for more than Babe Ruth and Dan Marino(spelling?)and I think most Europeans would be hard pressed to even come up with 1 NFL guy, and certainly couldn't name any current Baseball player.


    But then I certainly wouldn't expect many Americans to be able to name top Snooker or Cricket players.


    I think it's great though that different countries can define themselves through different sports. I recently moved to Spain and here they have Handball and some crazy game where people whack a Tennis ball against a wall with their bare hands... Viva la Differance!

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    Image of HenryHSH HenryHSH
    02/11/09

    @TokeYo: Yep. The NBA is recognizable worldwide, mostly because Basketball is a global sport unlike Football (North America), Baseball (US+Japan) and Hockey (NA+Europe).


    Back when they allowed professional basketball players to participate in the Olympics, people around the world were excited to watch the "Dream Team" kick some ass. :P

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    Image of Alex_Mexico Alex_Mexico
    02/11/09

    @HenryHSH: What? wait wait wait. Baseball is widely known and played in all Latin America, USA and Japan. It IS more widely known that american football, thats for sure! I think baseball is the most popular US sport export.
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    Image of HenryHSH HenryHSH
    02/11/09

    @Alex_Mexico: Eh, still, Basketball is more recognizable.


    @SynicVance: I'm talking about the 1992 Olympics. Look it up.


    @jockve: Not French.

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