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- "Amanhã vou jogar futebol."
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In Portuguese "futebol" doesn't mean both sports. It means that played with feet only, and a round ball. The other is called "futebol americano".
Yeah, and only americans call futebol soccer (while the rest of the world says football)
That's not true. It's soccer in a lot of countries, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, parts of Africa, Ireland, etc...
Nonsense. Lots of people call it soccer, e.g. the South Africans. And the British invented the term and used it well into the 20th century, then abandoned it. Now they go around complaining that others still use it. Without fail, anytime i ask a Brit what the actual name of the sport is, i get a blank stare. (It's association football; the "soc" in association is the origin of "soccer", by analogy with "rugger" for Rugby.)
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Can someone tell me how we know the first person singular is assumed by this sentence which uses neither eu or a conjugation of jogar?
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Probably for not being a confusion between "american football" and "soccer". Indeed, europeans never say "soccer" :)
