Sven Tumba played for the Swedish National Team in both hockey and football. He was also a professional golfer.
If you live in Vancouver Island and have been in any sports store you will have seen lacrosse equipment. It’s usually right next to the hockey gear. But no, you’re not likely to stumble across a lacrosse game any more than you will stumble across a hockey game, given that it’s almost all box lacrosse and played indoors.Newsy Lalonde! Arguably the best ever!
Indeed. I've spent a quarter century in B.C. and have never seen lacrosse equipment even! Heck, i once saw a rugby match. I once saw a cricket pitch. (I say match and pitch uncomfortably because i want to say game and field but i have seen those sports ON TV / ON LINE in New Zealand & India!
Lacrosse in Canada? I feel more likely to see Big Foot than it in my province.
also, Canadians, South Africans, New Zealanders, Australians and in fact, the only English first speaking country is the UK that call it football. The UK only started calling that since 1980, before that, they also called it soccer, you know because the Brits invented the word.Kari Eloranta played football (the one which Americans call soccer) in the top Finnish league in 1980s.
Did he play football and hockey at different times?
I lived on Van Isle from kindy to mid-Grade 5.If you live in Vancouver Island and have been in any sports store you will have seen lacrosse equipment.
Where I grew up we'd heard of lacrosse and that's about it. But there are healthy pockets of lacrosse all over the place, largely dependent on a few passionate people who keep the game running. The Thompson-Okanagan Junior Lacrosse League (including the Kamloops Venom) has been running for a quarter century, and yes, there's a minor lacrosse system in the loops.I know for over a decade since then i hadn't seen a lick of anything lacrosse-related in Kamloops, B.C.
Which is why most English clubs older than that are called SC, or Soccer Club.The UK only started calling that since 1980, before that, they also called it soccer
Ah, ... so like we were saying...Where I grew up we'd heard of lacrosse and that's about it. ...
My elementary school years was in one of the small port towns in the North Island region, hours up from Campbell River.On the Island, lacrosse is mostly concentrated in Victoria (Nanaimo isn't as strong) but even then, I'm surprised that someone from here wouldn't have come across it, even a little.
Yup true but not the entire storyWhich is why most English clubs older than that are called SC, or Soccer Club.
False. There never was a rugby association. That always referred solely and unmistakably to the Football Association, the governing body in soccer. The Rugby Football Union was created only several years later by clubs that explicitly rejected the association football rules but nevertheless wanted unified rules of their own.Yup true but not the entire story
The word soccer was created to different between Rugby and Soccer. Both used the same shorten abbreviation of the word Association Football (late/early 1800s/1900s) which became confusing so one became Ruggers and the other Soccer. You’d drive or train into town and see a sign that said “Assoc. FC” but didn’t know which football it was.
Almost ‘Tross but wrong as usual.
Ahhh kid, it's one thing to be wrong but to be smug and wrong takes it to another level. Does your country have google? Eh A'Trosser?False. There never was a rugby association. That always referred solely and unmistakably to the Football Association, the governing body in soccer. The Rugby Football Union was created only several years later by clubs that explicitly rejected the association football rules but nevertheless wanted unified rules of their own.
The word "soccer" originated in England in the late 19th century as a shortened version of the term "association football". The term was used by students at Oxford University in the 1880s to differentiate between "rugger" (rugby football) and "assoccer" (association football). The term was popularized by British players who adapted the word "association" into slang terms like "assoc" and "assoccer". The first syllable of "association" was often skipped, leaving "soc", to which the "-er" ending was added, creating "soccer". The term was widely used in England through the first half of the 20th century, but most British people stopped using it around 40 years ago, possibly in response to its increased use in the United StatesFalse. There never was a rugby association. That always referred solely and unmistakably to the Football Association, the governing body in soccer. The Rugby Football Union was created only several years later by clubs that explicitly rejected the association football rules but nevertheless wanted unified rules of their own.
ohhhh google still works in my countryFalse. There never was a rugby association. That always referred solely and unmistakably to the Football Association, the governing body in soccer. The Rugby Football Union was created only several years later by clubs that explicitly rejected the association football rules but nevertheless wanted unified rules of their own.
You're entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts. Rugby was never a part of association football but the rejection thereof. As such, association football was always separate of rugby.Ahhh kid, it's one thing to be wrong but to be smug and wrong takes it to another level. Does your country have google? Eh A'Trosser?
The word "soccer" originated in England in the late 19th century as a shortened version of the term "association football". The term was used by students at Oxford University in the 1880s to differentiate between "rugger" (rugby football) and "assoccer" (association football). The term was popularized by British players who adapted the word "association" into slang terms like "assoc" and "assoccer". The first syllable of "association" was often skipped, leaving "soc", to which the "-er" ending was added, creating "soccer". The term was widely used in England through the first half of the 20th century, but most British people stopped using it around 40 years ago, possibly in response to its increased use in the United States