Joga: soccer site for Americans
Somebody really needs to tell Nike and Google that it’s not called soccer - but football - everywhere in the world, but the U.S.
So that means that this site is just for Americans.
That seems really weird to me and says that this is not a real Google site, but one of those “20% playing around” sites. Why would an International brand create a site just for Americans.
Why put a picture of Ronaldo up there? What happened to the ‘Miracle U.S. female team?’
And they mention “the world”. So why would anybody in the world want to join a site for Soccer - when it’s really called Football?
And shouldn’t a company like Nike - know that? Yet another example of American, isolationist, close minded thinking.
The whole thing reaks of ‘experiment’. And whatever happened to the lawsuit between Google and Affinity Engines - over Orkut? Their ‘other’ social network experiment.
March 18th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
ironically in australia soccer is called soccer as AFL is football… but if u r in Sydney football means rugby, and then there’s union and league. but basically soccer is the third football here, so we call it soccer. not that i want to align with McDonalds on this one
March 19th, 2006 at 12:03 am
Where are you accessing the site from? The US? Does it serve the same text globally? I’m guessing Nike and Google have versions for every country. Could be wrong but I can’t imagine them not having country specific veriosns of the site.
March 19th, 2006 at 12:59 am
http://576871.blogspot.com/2006/03/joga.html
Looks like the site is in multiple languages as this is a Russian version of it. Way to jump to conclusions…
March 20th, 2006 at 6:41 am
“Yet another example of American, isolationist, close minded thinking”
…sounds kind of isolationist and close minded.
March 23rd, 2006 at 11:54 pm
Yet another ignorant rant from Marc Canter.
Try choosing a different region/language. Where “soccer” is called “football” the site calls it “football”. If you choose “North America” and “English” the site will call it “soccer”.
March 29th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
Note the top of the page says that it’s brought to you by “Google and NIKEFOOTBALL.COM”…hmmm…
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