Snickers Brazil sparked a lively debate about the meanings of the word “football” during the most important match in the United States’ national football championship – for which, it should be said, Brazilians are the second-largest audience outside the U.S. The spot also spoke to fans, reinforcing the global concept “You’re not you when you’re hungry.”

 

It all started when the hashtag #FutebolSQN [“It’s not soccer”] was launched in the land of soccer, Brazil, and led to the following question: why use the word “football” for a sport that’s played with your hands, and not with your feet [“foot”], and which uses an oval object instead of a round one [“ball”]? It started sweeping across social media on the day of the hotly awaited match. Like most of the countries around the world, Brazilians also call soccer football [“futebol”].