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SamuelG (Voir le profil) 3 juin 2013 03:31:14
Kazimir (Voir le profil) 3 juin 2013 05:57:44
PlaidMouse (Voir le profil) 3 juin 2013 07:50:40
Mi sxatas futbalon, sed mi pli sxatas bazpilkado (basbalo) ol futbalo. Persistu en via sercxado!
Plej bonaj deziroj al vi,
PlaidMouse
johmue (Voir le profil) 3 juin 2013 08:13:04
PlaidMouse:I enjoy watching soccer and discussing it with friends (though not in Esperanto yet; need to change that!), though I must admit I enjoy baseball more. Surely there must be soccer/football fans who speak Esperanto in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America! Keep looking and don't give up hope.Appearingly there is not much enthusiasm about soccer in european Esperantujo. In ten years of esperantoing mostly in Europe I remember two events where soccer was somehow a topic. One was in 2010 during Somera Esperanto Studado. It happend in a week during the Soccer world championship and the participants would watch the soccer matches together including discussions about soccer terminology. For example whether "off side" should be in Esperanto according to english "ofsajdo" or a literal french translation "eksterludo".
In 2011 during IJK en Kiev a team of international youth esperantists played against a local youth team and lost 7 to 3 or something like that.
That's all that I remember about soccer in my personal esperanto experience.
One further remark: Osmo Buller, the general director of UEA (world's esperanto assocciation) is said to be a strong supporter of Feyenoord Rotterdam.
PlaidMouse (Voir le profil) 3 juin 2013 08:42:31
johmue:Appearingly there is not much enthusiasm about soccer in european Esperantujo. In ten years of esperantoing mostly in Europe I remember two events where soccer was somehow a topic.Thank you for sharing this information Johmue. I'm surprised by this and find it fascinating. I wonder if there is some type of reverse correltion between Esperanto as an interest and soccer/footbal as an interest.
johmue:One further remark: Osmo Buller, the general director of UEA (world's esperanto assocciation) is said to be a strong supporter of Feyenoord Rotterdam.This is good to hear (that Mr. Buller is a soccer fan). I like Nagoya Grampus myself.
johmue (Voir le profil) 3 juin 2013 08:57:12
PlaidMouse:I don't think that there is that correlation. Probably there are a lot of Esperantists who are also soccer fans. But not at the same time. I agree that it's an interesting phenomenon that Esperantists discuss about all kinds of (often for many people strange) topics but not about soccer.johmue:Appearingly there is not much enthusiasm about soccer in european Esperantujo. In ten years of esperantoing mostly in Europe I remember two events where soccer was somehow a topic.Thank you for sharing this information Johmue. I'm surprised by this and find it fascinating. I wonder if there is some type of reverse correltion between Esperanto as an interest and soccer/footbal as an interest.
erinja (Voir le profil) 3 juin 2013 15:16:18
I am a soccer fan but there is no point to discussing the DC United with a European. They have likely never heard of my local team and unless they support a large team, I may not have heard of their team. I don't follow European soccer and I barely even follow US soccer, though I like it. Discussing sports is more interesting when you are talking about the same league.
If you had an event take place at World Cup time, it's a bit different perhaps, since everyone can discuss the international game together.
On off side - it's fuori gioco ("eksterludo", outside of the game) in Italian. Seems like many Euroepan languages use a translation of this idea so I think I'd say eksterludo rather than 'ofsajdo' in Esperanto.
SamuelG (Voir le profil) 3 juin 2013 15:26:52
I was thinking about creating a twitter page (all in Esperanto) of updates on Soccer scores/news around the world. What do you all think? johmue (Voir le profil) 3 juin 2013 15:37:43
erinja:If you had an event take place at World Cup time, it's a bit different perhaps, since everyone can discuss the international game together.Yes. Actually we could discuss last night's match USA against Germany. I haven't watched it though
SamuelG:I support [...] Shalke in the BundesligaSchalke? You're serious? Sure? ... Go away!
Borussia Mönchengladbach SamuelG (Voir le profil) 3 juin 2013 16:02:19
johmue:Schalke!! and oh yeah that win against Germany yesterday.erinja:If you had an event take place at World Cup time, it's a bit different perhaps, since everyone can discuss the international game together.Yes. Actually we could discuss last night's match USA against Germany. I haven't watched it though
SamuelG:I support [...] Shalke in the BundesligaSchalke? You're serious? Sure? ... Go away!
I am kidding, Germany didn't have their strongest squad out there, and we did. Also Ter Stegen made an AWFUL error, your goalie for Mönchengladbach. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl54z30wM58