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** As a Brasilian saying goes: "Os ingleses inventaram o futebol, os brasileiros o aperfeiçoaram" (The Brits invented football, the Brazilians perfected it).
** Its importance in South America is so big, that the word was changed to fit spanish phonetics (fútbol). (Mexico still uses the unmodified phonetic (futból)).
* Speaking of soccer, The word "soccer", an abbreviation of Association Football, is used in the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, South Africa, Japan, and several other countries to distinguish the different "footballs". However in Britain, the word's country of origin ([http://soccerlens.com/why-do-americans-call-it-soccer/3360/ no, really]), as well as other countries that have soccer... er, football as the number one sport, the word seems to make a lot of people cringe. For some reason though, despite its British origins, the Americans are normally [[
* [[American Football]] is very popular in Canada, mainly this is because Canadian Football; the second most popular sport in the country behind Hockey, is basically quite similar to American Football, with some notable differences. Toronto for example, has plenty of Buffalo Bills fans, and the team has even had games played there. Some Canadians have even pushed for NFL teams in Canada; but due to issues <ref>Mainly the existence of the [[Canadian Football]] League.</ref>, that isn't likely to happen anytime soon.
* While [[Ice Hockey]] was created in Canada and is immensely popular there, it is also popular in Russia, Sweden, Finland, the Czech Republic, and the Northern United States. Not so much in the Southern United States though considering that there is little to no snow in those areas and hockey is obviously popular in places where it snows in the winter, although [[Los Angeles]] and [[DFW Metroplex|Dallas]] are two exceptions.
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