This is one story you will find hard to believe: that in Australia, the land down under, the people play football _the round type, sounds almost unbelievable. This is because the Aussies have always been playing football for younks but the shape of the balls has always been that of an olive (kana in chinese, zaitun in Malay) (oval, eggshaped, ovate, oviform, ovoid, elliptical, whichever word you want to choose)
You and I in Kulim and elsewhere in Malaysia, indeed the old world over have been kicking the round ball on the padang or any open spaces adjacent to the schools or our homes since we could run. All we needed was some shoes or school bags, or poles to mark the goal posts and we would run chasing the ball all over the space until someone intercepts it. This goes on all the time, morning, noon or evening like crazy.
The confusion is that the games they play in Down Under have always been called football whether it be rugger, rugby league or Aussie rules. Incidentally, Aussie rules, as far as I and many new comers are concerned, is stupid because it is rough and does not appear to have any rules. My friends will dispute that but to say the least the game looks chaotic.
So, to avoid confusion, the Aussies insist on calling the new game that they have adopted as soccer , or football - the round type. Hence the derivative socceroos.
The game, football of the round type will dominate the scene in the near future indeed it already has a very large following .
The Aussies are madly in love with sports, indeed sports of any type except badminton because they are not good at it. Their body mass prevents them from being agile.
The Aussies are sport mad
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8 years ago
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