Talk:North American Nations Cup

Use of the term soccer

Soccer is the term for the sport used in Canada and the United States. In both of these countries, football is a sport played on the gridiron by men wearing helmets. As the NAFC Championship included two countries - Mexico and Cuba - who use the term football and two countries - the United States and Canada - which used the term soccer, then football (soccer) is a useful term spanning both usages. Mohrflies (talk) 23:54, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

The NAFC (North American Football Confederation) like CONCACAF (COnfederation of North, Central America and CAribbean of Football) was a multinational 'Football confederation which included the United States Soccer Federation and the Canadian Soccer Association, the term soccer is used in the articles where the USSF and CSA are the ruling authority, but NAFC and CONCACAF are a higher authority than the US and Canadian bodies, in such related articles the term used is "football" or "association fotball". I'm agree that half of the NAFC former member associations use the term soccer, but NAFC and CONCACAF are in a worldwide level.--201.171.223.174 (talk) 18:31, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

You missed the point. This is a matter of clarity for the readers. The term soccer, not football or association football, is understood by Wikipedia readers in Canada and the United States. In a similar way, Wikipedia's Spanish language article on Major League Soccer calls it, "La Major League Soccer (MLS) es la primera división de fútbol en Estados Unidos y Canadá." The Italian language article on MLS states, "La Major League Soccer, spesso abbreviata in MLS, è il campionato di vertice di calcio del sistema di lega statunitense e canadese." Calcio is Italian for kicking, the common term for the sport in that country. In conclusion, for the sake of the readers for whom the sport is soccer as well as those readers who use the term football, let's go with football (soccer).Mohrflies (talk) 20:05, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Ok, I'm to use football (soccer). I want to point that NAFC is under the worldwide point of view, not just to the US and Canada, that's why I standarized the term in the 6 articles. What I tried to explain above is that all the football (soccer) articles under the US and Canadian soccer federations is where the term soccer is used (without football), but all the other articles use football, association football or football (soccer). Take the Bermuda example, being the Bermuda Football Association a member of CONCACAF and FIFA, most of the Bermudian related articles use football, association football or football (soccer) except in Bermuda Hogges Football Club because it plays in the American USL Second Division. Cheers, --201.143.19.18 (talk) 21:47, 21 May 2009 (UTC)