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The American World Cup Introduced Ad Breaks—and Everyone Absolutely Hates It (www.wsj.com)

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As the World Cup landed in the U.S. for the first time in three decades, international soccer fans have been acquainting themselves with the distinctly American pleasures of barbecue, highway traffic jams and Texas summers.

But there’s one American tradition that fans of the world’s most popular sport simply cannot tolerate. This summer, World Cup games have introduced commercial breaks smack in the middle of each half.

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[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Fusseball?

[–] meowcar420@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's german for football and the ß is pronounced as voiceless double s

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

So it is fusseball?

Or like, fooseball?

[–] meowcar420@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

fooseball

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

voiceless double s

Figures Germans would even have a special letter for SS but afaik it's not voiceless

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone -2 points 2 weeks ago

I think they mean table football, which is often called fussball.