in soccer (football) why the "bicycle kick" (or "huguina") is popular called "chilena"?
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The only thing I can say to you is that word sounds an Italian word : " CILENA " . It means Chilean , or " CHILEAN WAY " . Could mean the style of the kick .\nIn Italian : ch = ci .
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Soccer is a wordplay on the word association as in the following text:\n\n"Soccer" was originally called "association football" during the formation of the Football Association in England in the 1860s. This was to maintain a distinction from the other football game being organised in England at the same time based on the handling codes, whilst Association Football conformed to the dribbling codes. The other football came to be known as "rugby" football, named after the Rugby School in England.
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Soccer is popular because of the tension that builds up during play.  Scoring a goal is like winning at chess.  The intricate strategy required to beat the offside trap and score while not being fouled or committing a foul is incredibly difficult.  So when someone scores, it's an incredible release and when you watch it you just go nuts.  Plus, the atmosphere at matches is incomparable.  Fans go crazy!  You just have to experience it to understand it.
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Garrincha (Brazil) \n\nIn Chile 1962 he was ejected in the semifinal against Chile at the 83 minute he scored 2 goals in that match and Brazil won 4 - 2 \n\nAnd he played the final (as starter) against Czechoslovakia Brazil won 3 - 1
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Folha seca - Falling leaf.  The Portuguese phrased used in Brazil to refer to the swerving free kick invented by the wonderful Didi to circumvent the defensive wall.  It was so named because of its unpredictable curving quality, much like the eddies of a falling leaf.\n\nIt was in the hurly-burly of Brazil's national championship that Garrincha perfected a repertoire of beguiling free-kicks , becoming the scourge of goalkeepers everywhere with his bamboozling dead ball efforts. \n\nThe banana kick and the'falling leaf' shot - so-called because the ball swerved twice during its flight towards goal - were to become Garrincha's trademarks.
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Soccer was originally called "association football,"but the existence of the game of American football made differentiation between the sports difficult. Therefore, the term "association football"became known as the word soccer, which is derived from the word assoc. It is the most widely played team game and the most popular spectator sport. It is played by two teams each consisting of 11 men on a rectangular field (110 m x 73 m) having a goal of 7 m wide and 2 m high at either end. At the start of a soccer game, the soccer ball, a spherical leather football, is 27 to 28 inches (69-71 cm) in circumference and 14 to 16 ounces (396-454 grams) in mass. The goalkeeper is the only player that is allowed to handle the ball. The remaining players are permitted kick, dribble, and pass the ball with their feet, head, and trunk. A goal is scored when the ball is sent between the opponent's goalposts.\nSource-Sam
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The international game known as Football (or Futbol) - what Americans refer to as "soccer" - has only gained popularity in America in the last few years, and has never been a popular spectator sport here.  Although American football does involve hand-touching, it is one of the few games played here that involves kicking the ball, so that's probably where the name came from.
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Yeah it's popular in Europe too.\nLots of kids in those countries play soccer.  Soccer is even popular in the United States.  I see lots of vans and SUVs with soccer logos on the bumpers.  Lots of soccer moms and lots of leagues.
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I luv soccer.And the person who said "its called foot ball"is worng cuz its spelt fute ball.
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Created by a Chilean player named David Arellano who died trying this same feat from injuries to the head against Portugal in 1928
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In France, Soccer is called Football!!!!!\nSource-Sam
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Futbol, it is the most popular sport in the world.
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first of all it is not "soccer" its football, futbol or futebol and it  is the most popular sport in the whole world..... everyone plays it.... who likes it? the whole world.... who likes it the most? i would have to say the Brazilians the have the jogo bonito..
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Soccer, it's a game where everyone can really get invovled even if you suck. I love playing with alot of my really good friends and my really bad friends too just the same. Overall it's just a funner game.
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The word "soccer" is a colloquial abbreviation of association (from assoc.) and first appeared in the 1880s. The word is sometimes credited to Charles Wreford Brown, an Oxford University student said to have been fond of shortened forms such as brekkers for breakfast and rugger for rugby football. In the late 19th century the word soccer tended to be used only at public schools; most people knew the game simply as football.\n\nFootball is more commonly known as soccer in certain English-speaking nations where the word "football" refers to a rival code of football developed within that nation, specifically Australia, Canada, Ireland and the United States, and also in areas where Rugby football is more popular than association football, such as Australia, New Zealand and the white communities of South Africa. In these countries "football" was often included in the names of the earliest leagues and governing bodies of the sport, but as that word became increasingly associated with other domestic forms of the game, soccer became more widely used.\n\nFootball, in its modern form, was exported by Britons to much of the rest of the world and many of these nations adopted this common English term for the sport into their own language. This was usually done in one of two ways: either by directly importing the word itself, or by translating its constituent parts, foot and ball. Most Romance languages use the word football, albeit with a different pronunciation and occasionally a different spelling: the (Spanish fútbol, Portuguese: futebol, and the French, le football is often shortened to le foot. \n\nIn Germanic languages (other than English), the term is usually translated (for example, German: Fußball, Norwegian: fotball, Swedish: fotboll, Danish: fodbold and the Dutch: voetbal. \n\nIn Italy, football is called calcio, from calciare meaning to kick.\n\nAnd Kick-Off, Field Goal and Punt are all terms to describe American Football whereby a player uses his foot to make the ball go in a certain direction.  So, American Football is played with the feet but it is played with the feet about as much as world football/futbol is played with the hands via the goal keeper or other players on a throw-in.  My question would be why is it termed football (in the rest of the world) when the goalie can use his hands all the time (provided he is in the 18 yard box) and other players use their hands to make a throw in?  It is a mixture of both hands and feet as well as your head, chest, thigh etc.  In my opinion soccer/football should be called "body ball" taking in the total amount of your body that actually touches the ball, unlike rugby and american football...just a thought.
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I've never heard of this and I'm from Ireland, however there is a special kick in the game of Rugby called a "Garryowen" where the ball is kicked high in the air with the anticipation that it will be caught by the advancing team. Garryowen is a place in Ireland.
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Soccer, game played by two teams on a rectangular field, in which players attempt to knock a round ball through the opponents’ goal, using any part of the body except the hands. Generally, players use their feet and heads as they kick, dribble, and pass the ball toward the goal. One player on each team guards the goal. This player, the goalkeeper, is the only player allowed to touch the ball with the hands while it is in play.\n\nSoccer is a free-flowing game that has relatively few rules and requires little equipment. All that is needed to play is an area of open space and a ball. Much of the world's soccer is played informally, without field markings or real goals. In many places, the game is played barefoot using rolled-up rags or newspapers as a ball. Soccer is the world's most popular sport, played by people of all ages in about 200 countries. The sport has millions of fans throughout the world.\n\nOnly in the United States and Canada is the game referred to as soccer. Outside these countries the sport is commonly called football, or fútbol in Spanish-speaking countries, where the game is particularly popular. The official name of the sport is association football. \n\n****************************************************\n\nHistory of Soccer -\nBefore World Cup Soccer\nThe modern form of soccer originated in England in the early 1830's. The sport grew among working-class communities and was seen as a way of keeping young and energetic kids out of trouble at home and in the school; they could