Talk:United States Soccer Federation

Why is it called Soccer and not Fotbol?

    - Because 'Fotbol' is not a word...

Interestingly, this may be an archaic carry over from England where the game originated (in the present form). It is known in Football in England. However it used to be known as "soccer" in public schools (in the UK 'public schools' are the expensive, private, fee paying schools, not the state funded schools). "Soccer" is an abbreviation of "Association" - Association Football - in the same way that public school boys refer to Rugby Football as "Rugger". I believer the abbreviation of a longer word to a short one ending in "-er" was popular at the turn of 1900 (though this last fact I cannot prove). So it looks like as the game was forming in the USA, it took "Soccer", also presumably to differentiate from their local version of Football (which we in the UK call "American Football" to differentiate it from 'real' football ;-) ).

Because the Americans are smart who think that their word for football sounds "cool". The have a Mickey Mouse culture and they have to label things, such as football, with childish terms in order to attract kids to the sport. Americans are a bunch of clowns.

Blatter should step in and force the U.S. Federation to acknowledge the game as Football. No more of this Mickey Mouse nonsense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.129.39.30 (talk) 09:25, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

I guess Blatter would have to step in in the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and all the other countries which refer to the game as soccer. While he's at it he'd have to do something about the Italians who refer to the game as calcio, which roughly translates to "kick". Is it really worth getting your knickers in a twist about something as trivial as this? The majority of the anglophone world calls the game soccer, accept it, shut up, and move on.

Cups Won

i think there should be a section for cups won (US Open Cup, CONCACAF Gold Cup, etc.). Streamless 15:06, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Soccer an american take on british slang for associated. The word associated is from associated football. So they say...

Leagues

There is no mention of the Pacific Coast Soccer League or the National Premier Soccer League in this article. NHammen 04:24, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Criteria for "Current Players"

What is the criteria for the inclusion of one player over another? Why is Hartman listed but not Reis? Reis was a World Cup alternate, Hartman was not, Why is Quaranta listed? I think for the men the players should be the core players on the actual roster and alternates roster for the most recent tournament/game, same for the women. Batman2005 21:01, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I'm going to be bold and delete the current players, as this information is already covered in much more depth on the National Team pages from both genders, I'll provide a link to those respective pages. I don't see the need to include the information twice in wikipedia. Batman2005 21:04, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed

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Presidents

1913-15 Dr.G.R.Manning, 1915-17 J.A.Fernley, 1918-19 P.J.Peel, 1920-23 G.Healey, 1924 P.J.Peel, 1925-26 M.W.Johnson, 1927-28 A.M.Brown, 1929-32 A.Patterson, 1933-34 E.A.Schroeder, 1935-36 J. J.Barriskill, 1937-38 J.Triner, 1939-41 H.S.Callowhill, 1942-45 T.E.Sager, 1946-48 H.H. Fairfield, 1949 W.J.Geisler. Libro0 (talk) 22:23, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Foundation

The organization was not a result of a merger of the AFA and AAFA. Rather, in an attempt to go national, the AAFA with help from the Allied American FA of Philadelphia called a meeting on April 5 (a second meeting was held on June 21) involving numerous associations across the country where the USFA was formed. Both the AFA and AAFA had applied for membership to FIFA in order to be recognized as the national body. After the USFA was formed they withdrew the AAFA bid and replaced it with the USFA bid and were thus recognized as the national body by FIFA at their August 1913 meeting. The AFA later became a member association of the USFA. Libro0 (talk) 22:58, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Organization

I find it odd that this article, like the USSF website itself, has no information on the organization leadership or structure. It is as if USSF is a consumer product. Who holds important positions? Are they appointed or elected? Does it have a Board of Directors and who are they? Who elects them? Also any financial worth or public records?

I may attempt to supply this info at a later date, but maybe somebody has this material at hand and can supply it to improve the article. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peterapoole (talk • contribs) 20:04, 26 June 2011 (UTC)