what do they call football in spanish?
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 Football is a popular sport among the country 's Southeast Asian neighbors , yet it is overshadowed by basketball , which is the most popular sport in the Philippines . However , football has a long history in the archipelago , dating back to more than 100 years ago when Paulino Alcántara Riestra became the first Filipino and Asian player to play for a European club . He made his debut as a striker at the age of 15 at Barcelona , which made him the club 's youngest and second highest goalscorer behind Lionel Messi . Since then , the first football teams began to form , including the Manila Sporting Club in 1906 , the Sandow Athletic Club in 1909 , and the Bohemian Sporting Club in 1910 . 

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 In Spain , 26 percent of the population supports Barcelona as their primary club , with another 7 % supporting Barcelona while having another club as their primary . Throughout Europe many fans regard Barcelona as their second club . Since the 2003 – 04 season , the club 's membership figures have risen from 100 @,@ 000 to 170 @,@ 000 socis in September 2009 , a 70 percent increase . The sharp rise was attributed to the influence of Ronaldinho and then @-@ president Joan Laporta 's media @-@ strategy , which focused on online media in Spanish and English . As of June 2010 there are 1 @,@ 335 officially registered penyes around the world , representing an 11 percent increase since 2003 . 

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 Within the English @-@ speaking world , association football is now usually called football in the United Kingdom and mainly soccer in Canada and the United States . People in Australia , Ireland and New Zealand use either or both terms , although national associations in Australia and New Zealand now primarily use " football " for the formal name . 

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 In many parts of the world football evokes great passions and plays an important role in the life of individual fans , local communities , and even nations . R. Kapuscinski says that Europeans who are polite , modest , or humble fall easily into rage when playing or watching football games . The Côte d 'Ivoire national football team helped secure a truce to the nation 's civil war in 2006 and it helped further reduce tensions between government and rebel forces in 2007 by playing a match in the rebel capital of Bouaké , an occasion that brought both armies together peacefully for the first time . By contrast , football is widely considered to have been the final proximate cause for the Football War in June 1969 between El Salvador and Honduras . The sport also exacerbated tensions at the beginning of the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s , when a match between Dinamo Zagreb and Red Star Belgrade degenerated into rioting in May 1990 . 

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 Football has been the most popular sport in Peru since the early 20th century . Originally largely exclusive to Lima 's Anglophile elite and expatriates , and secluded from the rest of the city , football became an integral part of wider popular culture during the 1900s and 1910s . Over the following decades , Augusto B. Leguía 's government institutionalised the sport into a national pastime by promoting and organising its development . Consequently , the national football team became an important element of Peru 's national identity . 
