anti-soccer
anti-soccer adjective: opposing the sport of soccer.
Adjective
anti-soccer (comparative more anti-soccer, superlative most anti-soccer)
- Opposing the sport of soccer.
- There were many concerns as to whether soccer players were being sufficiently disciplined. In Brazil, Lima Barreto and Carlos Sussekind de Mendonça promoted drill and rote training as part of their antisoccer campaign.2023, Matthew Brown, “Controlled Violence”, in Sports in South America: A History, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 150
Noun
anti-soccer (uncountable)
- A corrupted or unconventional form of soccer.
- Clodoaldo condemned the “inefficiency” and “lack of heart” he saw, especially in the midfield. Shockingly, the country of Pelé and the beautiful game had fallen into playing antisoccer—that is, trying to destroy the opponent's game with little thought of putting together effective attacks.⁸⁷2014, Roger Kittleson, “Playing Modern: Efficiency over Art, 1971–80”, in The Country of Football: Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 108
Forms of anti-soccer
| comparative | more anti-soccer |
|---|---|
| superlative | most anti-soccer |
| alternative form | antisoccer |
Origin of anti-soccer
From anti- + soccer.
Questions about anti-soccer
- What does anti-soccer mean?
- Anti-soccer means opposing the sport of soccer.
- What part of speech is anti-soccer?
- Anti-soccer can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near anti-soccer in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: anti-soccer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “anti-soccer.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/anti-soccer. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.