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Alexi Lalas refuses to call it football: 'It makes you look like a weak poser'

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Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn ImagesAlexi Lalas has never met a hill he didn’t want to die on, and this week’s hill is, of all things, vocabulary. A fan pushed back on the Fox Sports studio analyst for repeatedly saying “soccer” instead of “football,” arguing that even American players make the switch in overseas interviews as a basic show of respect for the global game, but Lalas was unmoved. “Yeah…that’s not gonna happen,” he wrote. “I call …
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Awful Announcing broke the news on Saturday, June 20, 2026.
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