>>>>Happy new year, soccer fan. That has to be a fast track into heaven.
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>>>Happy new year too, Mike, but fast track into heaven as a fútbol fan? I think you do not know how my team Independiente is performing in the last decade(s), seems to me a fast track into hell :)
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>>LOL
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>>Best wishes to you for 2009 anyway. There is probably a soccer term I don't know. Gola?
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>???, aka gol - comes form goal. Also enac (enats - from hands), fudbal (or ??????/futbol in Russian), "lopta je u autu" (the ball is in the out), stativa (goalpost vertical; the horizontal one was called precka, a rung), bek (back), levi, desni half i centarhalf (left & right half + centerhalf).
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>So we took the English term[inology], adopted and adapted it, and now we have a perfectly domesticated set of words - fudbal, fudbaler, fudbalski trener (~ trainer), fudbalski stadion (stadium - we do have "stadijum" but that applies to diseases) and then you come and tell us we got it all wrong, it's not football, it's soccer? Not going to fly.

Have you made a New Year's resolution to stay curmudgeonly? ;)

Happy new year, however you choose to be.