Girls play soccer between between 1918 and 1920. (Library of Congress) New Zealand's largest newspaper is deeply conflicted. With the World Cup underway in Brazil, should The New Zealand Herald refer to the "global round-ball game" as "soccer" or "football"? The question has been put to readers, and the readers have spoken. It's "football"—by a wide margin. We in the U.S., of course, would disagre
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