Meanings
- uncountableAssociation football, soccer.
2009, Daniel Barthold, The Business of European Football, page 3 https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Business_of_European_Football/lTalDMRCarcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22european+football%22&pg=PA3&printsec=frontcover European football (soccer) is the most popular sport in the world.
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2006, David Gonthier, American Prison Film Since 1930, page 118 https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/American_Prison_Film_Since_1930/DRnuAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22european+football%22&dq=%22european+football%22&printsec=frontcover Mean Machine was the name of the British release of The Longest Yard, but instead of American football, the film is about European football, soccer.
2008, Loek Groot, Economics, Uncertainty and European Football, page 3 https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Economics_Uncertainty_and_European_Footb/fHQnlF2LJawC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22European+football%22&pg=PA3&printsec=frontcover To put it bluntly, European football will become just another American sport; commercialized, organised and managed like American football, baseball or basketball.
- countableThe spherical ball used in association football, especially as contrasted with that used in American football.
While the Streptococcus is like an American football, Staphylococcus is closer to a basketball or a European football in shape.
1985, Canadian Journal of Microbiology, volume 31, page 1078
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