>>It's FIFA punishing you for calling the game soccer! I don't know how S. Africa are doing but they deservethe same fate. My daughters' latest ballet teacher is S. African and I met her for the first time last Saturday during a demo of the lids' class. She used a fottball as a prop and kept referring to it as a "soccer ball" for Godssakes! (as "soccer" is a corrupted abbrev. of "associated football" this means she was calling it a "associated football ball")
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>>That's worse than saying PIN Number.
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>So what do you call the ball? A "soccer"? It in't a football. At least not to us.

No, it's a football, with which you play football. Sometimes or erstwhile called a case ball, as it used to be a bladder inside a leather case.

As opposed to the mini rugby ball that you guys fumble about with and play war with.