JOHANNESBURG - Soccer City Stadium (91,141)

[KingmanIII]

Originally Posted by CharlieP

Gaelic football fans in Ireland call it soccer, and rugby fans in South Africa call it soccer, since they follow a different kind of football. You do realise there are different kinds of football, don't you?

Exactly.

This concept is foreign to people from countries where association football is the most popular form of football.

[Lydon]

Originally Posted by cazorliax

Sorry men, i dont know where did you get that info but neither the Irish nor the Puerto Ricans call it Soccer and even do South African people call it soccer this is an international tournament ruled by FIFA, and even the US people called it Football on every oficial post on World Cup 94

South Africans call it soccer, and so has every Irish person I've spoken to.

Let's put it this way: we don't care what FIFA call it. FIFA don't have to maintain the stadium for the rest of it's existence after 2010 now do they?

[flierfy]

Originally Posted by CharlieP

Gaelic football fans in Ireland call it soccer, and rugby fans in South Africa call it soccer, since they follow a different kind of football. You do realise there are different kinds of football, don't you?

There is just one game in which the ball is predominantly played by feet and deserves to be called football therefore.

[CharlieP]

Originally Posted by flierfy

There is just one game in which the ball is predominantly played by feet and deserves to be called football therefore.

That's pretty much irrelevant when the name football came from the fact that it was played on foot.

[flierfy]

Originally Posted by CharlieP

That's pretty much irrelevant when the name football came from the fact that it was played on foot.

You play almost every game on your feet. So what's your point?

[Shezan]

lovely structure

[cazorliax]

Originally Posted by flierfy

There is just one game in which the ball is predominantly played by feet and deserves to be called football therefore.

Thank u men, you do understand what i'm talking about, and about the comment of the guy who said that there's no difference from the name football with all other sports because they're played on your feet, " Well you're right men, so from now on it's gonna be football tennis, football basketball, football baseball, etc. because they're played on your feet right???? and to the other guy well, i've just met a few irish but one of them told that AND I QUOTE he hated the yankees because they didn't stand the fact that Footaball is the one we all play, not soccer and that there football was what i guess we all called american football "

But nevermind i dont wanna turn the subject of this thread, i just wanted to make my point and i did and i guess you all make yours, and once again i want to let South African people know that the stadium is amazing and that they should be very very proud of it

[Durbsboi]

We call it Soccer, nuff said....

anyway "FOOTBALL CITY" sounds abit daft IMO

[Quintana]

So does Soccer City to be honest.

[Mo Rush]

Originally Posted by AUS4EVER

It reminds me of the proposed Perth stadium.

you mean previously proposed.

[CharlieP]

Originally Posted by flierfy

You play almost every game on your feet. So what's your point?

Yes, but back in medieval times most sports enjoyed by the nobility involved riding a horse - hunting, falconry etc., so they called the violent melée that peasant folk were allowed to indulge in on religious holidays "football", partly as a term of status because the commoners didn't have horses.

All the early forms of football were different, but were generally a mass wrestle to try and get a "ball" from one end of a field or a town or whatever to the other. Kicking at the ball was pretty hazardous given the quality of both balls and footwear in those days and was often banned.

Later it wasn't just peasants and villagers who played "football", as the English public schools introduced the sport as an outlet for boys' energy - in most cases this was still a mass scrummage swaying one way and another across a field, but at some schools it could only be played in a confined space within the cloisters, so a kicking game was developed. In the 19th Century, when efforts really began to unify all the various codes, some people preferred the Cambridge rules where handling was generally banned, some preferring the more traditional rules popularised by Rugby School. Most forms of football today can be traced back to either of these two factions.

Sorry, I've forgotten what my point was.

[Jenstz]

Any new photos of interior??? thanks

[Mo Rush]

[sollo]

[miguelon]

its good ti have a massive, football only stadium for a WC final, sure Berlin Olimpic is beautiful, but it had a track and 20,000 less seats,\

the color of the seats looks very good, a good change from the blue-gray-red, that almost all new stadiums have.

Well done South Africa, hopefully you will have thousands of mexican fans, including myself

[Lydon]

Originally Posted by Quintana

So does Soccer City to be honest.

I love Soccer City. It's different and unlike Football City, it makes use of assonance.

[JimB]

Originally Posted by Lydon

I love Soccer City. It's different and unlike Football City, it makes use of assonance.

Sorry to be pedantic but I think you mean "alliteration" (where two adjacent words start with the same letter or sound).

"Assonance" is when two adjacent words have similar sounding vowels or consonants - but not both. An example of assonance would be (instead of Soccer City): Round Town (similar vowel sound) or Bold Build (similar consonant sound).

Here endeth the lesson...

[Mo Rush]

image hosted on flickr

[bing222]

the seats are in already

[Lydon]

Originally Posted by JimB

Sorry to be pedantic but I think you mean "alliteration"

My bad...I indeed meant alliteration