Talk:South Africa national soccer team

Soccer?

Since South Africans call soccer soccer, shouldn't the title be the South African national soccer team? Joziboy 27 Feb 2006, 18:54 UTC

The governing body is the South African Football Association, so I think football should remain. Perhaps there should be a divert from South Africa national socccer team. Dancarney 22:22, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, the article should use "soccer" instead of football. First, the article has a South African English tag, as it's about a South African topic. Second, "soccer" the "Association" in Association Football, so it's just as accurate as "football", and more specific. Paulgush (talk) 20:59, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

RfC at Talk:Soccer in South Africa

A request for comment regarding the usage of "football" or "soccer", which applies to this and other South African football articles, has been opened at Talk:Soccer in South Africa for anyone who is interested. S.A. Julio (talk) 01:24, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Indeed. The outcome of that debate was that "soccer" should be used on the basis of South African English. The argument that "football" appears in the name of the govenring body, South African Football Association, but that "soccer" doesn't are mistaken because soccer is in fact short for "association". More importantly it's irrelevant. Wikipedia has a policy that articles should be written in English matching the nationality of topic. It's that simple. On that note, I'm about to make the article conform to its South African English tag. Paulgush (talk) 21:47, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

Requested move 16 June 2021

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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Elli (talk | contribs) 22:15, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

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• South Africa national football team → South Africa national soccer team
• South Africa national under-23 football team → South Africa national under-23 soccer team
• South Africa national under-20 football team → South Africa national under-20 soccer team
• South Africa national under-17 football team → South Africa national under-17 soccer team
• South Africa national development football team → South Africa national development soccer team
• South Africa women's national football team → South Africa women's national soccer team
• South Africa women's national under-17 football team → South Africa women's national under-17 soccer team

– The past arguments against moving the page two or three years ago are not as strong as they once were. Australia's governing body is called Football Australia but the page is titled: Australia national soccer team as that is the most popular term in the country, like is the case in South Africa. The page for association football in South Africa uses the term "soccer," and if the name for this page were moved, it would provide for greater uniformity. Finally, the word "soccer" is the more popular term in South Africa and because the page requires the use of South African English and vernacular, it would make sense to change it to soccer. Iamawesomeautomatic (talk) 21:27, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page moves. GiantSnowman 11:27, 17 June 2021 (UTC)

• Support to match outcome of this RfC. GiantSnowman 11:30, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support per RFC and consistency. SnowFire (talk) 16:00, 17 June 2021 (UTC)
• Support per RFC. Seany91 (talk) 08:02, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

GHANA 1-0 RSA

OK i didn't see that match i saw highlights if i was referee there i should said "let me think about it ...". Ok i know it hard ref thet big match and what people didn't think about is that if referee said "no" then the Ghanians will to fight for the penalty. I'm not a South African i'm an German. Ayew scored that penalty and if FIFA say let's restart the match Ayew will be angry and disappointed . Percy Tau shpuld have got many penalties but let's see what does CAF and FIFA will say Tank you 41.115.16.139 (talk) 04:35, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

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