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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 16 Jan 2002.
Re: Foosball!

Re: Foosball!

"Michael Herzog" <mic...@nnyconline.de> wrote in message
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> "drsquare" <now...@nowhere.co.uk> schrieb
>
> > I think you'll find it's called "football", unless you're German, in
> which
> > case it's spelt differently anyway.
>
> I don't think you can compare football with fussball / soccer. ;)
> Although if you translate word by word foot and ball become fuss and
> ball.

Sure you can.
Foosball comes from the german word fussball.
And the game itself IS football only in a table sized version.
European football that is .. which is why american also call it table soccer.

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