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Spanish football vocabulary explained
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All of the vocabulary and phrases you need to know
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Hola Hola. Como estamos soy Pablo de Coffee Break Spanish y hoy vamos hablar de football. Football or soccer if you prefer. A si que get ready because you are going to learn the vocabulary and phrases you actually need to talk about football in Spanish. Vamosaya. To begin, let's imagine we are arriving at a football match. So the first thing we would do is we actually walk into el estadio. That's the stadium. You can also say el campo de football, though this refers more to the pitch itself. And I'm thinking of another word for pitch, which is la canca. I really like this one and it's more used in Latin American Spanish, but it's again the same pitch. Perfecto. Que mas? Ah. The people attending very important are los inchas or los aficionados, the fans. And you can also use la aficion for the fan base as a whole. What else? On the pitch, of course we have los jugadores, or you can also say los footballistas. These are footballers on the side. Tendremos. We will have el entrenador. That's the coach, which normally is super stress, of course, and somewhere in the middle trying to keep order of everything, we have el arbitro, the referee. I say trying because as you well know, the fans will probably have strong opinions on his decisions. Vamos a hablar un poquito de las posiciones de los jugadores. Just the essentials. So first of all in goal. We got elsewhere, portero. And that's the goalkeeper. And let me tell you something, commentators actually love saying el guardameta for goalkeeper as well. And this is literally the guardian of the goal. Then we have el defensa, this is an easy one. The defender. And in midfield, el centro campista. Or you can also say el medio centro midfielder. And of course, up front we'll see el delantero, which is the forward or the striker. Now a question for you. Do you know how we call the player that has scored the most goals at the end of the season? We call that player el pichichi. And basically pichichi was the. The nickname of a famous Basque player from the, I think, early 1910s. And Pichichi basically became a synonym for top scotter. Now let's get into the real phrases you may hear and that you could use while watching a football match. So imagine your team are playing well and all of a sudden there is a great ball through the midfield. You can say que base or menudo passe, which is something like what a pass. That is a good pass. Then the ball could come in from the white and you would say, buen centro, buen centro. And that is good cross and then go. Or something like that. If I were actually, of course, watching my team at some point celebrate properly, of course. And after a goal, you can also use this one, che go lazo. And really interesting, because notice here we are adding the suffix a to go, which makes it more intense. It's like saying, what a great goal. And of course, talking about golatos. I still remember iniestas go lato. Of course, in the World cup final in 2010, when Spain won against the Netherlands in the extra time. I remember there was a public viewing with a giant screen in a wee square in my town, and it was just amazing. I think I will never forget that night. Trust me, Vale pues el partido sigue. And a few minutes later, someone goes down, but very dramatically, possibly too dramatically. Then you could say seat or se diro. And this is he dived or he faked a foul. And there's also another expression for when a player is faking a foul, which is pistina, un pistinaso. You probably recognize the word pistina in it, which means swimming pool. But actually here the suffix ato changes the meaning to a big dive. And as you well know, some players have genuinely missed their calling as swimmers. Now, el arbitro, the referee, has a decision to make if he gives the foul and you actually disagree, you are going to say arbitro e so no es falta, which would translate as referee, that is not a foul. And if you add a jester, it's even better. Now, if the tackle was actually harsh, you can say, which is something like, what a tough tackle. After this, if a card comes out, it could be una targeta amarilla, a yellow card, or una targeta roja, a red car. And if for some reason the referee hasn't shown a car, but you actually believe that that player should be booked, you, you can say, eso es una tarjeta comuna catedral, which I love this one, which means that's a card the size of a cathedral, or how is that not a card? And as you can see, we Spanish speakers don't do small comparisons. And then after the foul, la falta comes a free kick, and this is tiro libre. Or you can also say sake. The falta, you can choose. At some point, there might also be a corner. And very interestingly, we actually use the word corner in Spanish as a loan word from English, of course, but the proper equivalent is un sace de es quina, literally a kick from the corner. And if the referee has missed it, you can say, That should be a corner. Now, I want you to visualize or to picture this. The other team have score, but the position of the player before the goal is a bit unclear. He could be offside. And how do we say offside in Spanish? Do you know fuera de juego? So you would say esta en fuera de juego. Claramente. He's clearly offside. The good news is that this can be checked with el bar, of course. And that's not a bar I'm talking about, it's the var. And in Spanish, this is a masculine noun, el bar, because it stands for el video arbitrage, the video referee. And el bar can also be used to. To check a potential penalty. And a penalty is un penalty. Or you can also say un penal, whatever you prefer. And when the decision that the referee has made goes against your team, we use this phrase, que robo. What a robbery. And of course, if you do the gesture, even better. Generally, I would say this is one of the most versatile phrases in Spanish football, trust me. Muy bien. With el pitido final, the final whistle, it all comes down to three possible outcomes. So tu equipo gana, your team win, tu equipo pierde, your team lose. O el partido termina en empate. So the match ends in a draw. But if it's a knockout match, this would lead to to la proroga. I love how this word sounds. La proroga, which is extra time. And after that potentially we could have lost penalties, the penalty shootout, which in my opinion is essentially organized collective suffering. So hopefully it doesn't get to that. Then after a great match, when you're commenting the actual game with someone else, you can say che partida, what a great match, what a big match. And see that asso suffix again doing its thing. Or you could also say che partido mas malo if the game was, well, not great. Now, before finishing, you need to know the question to ask any Spanish speaking football fan, which is the que aquipo eres quipo eres, which means which team do you support? Yo soy del Valencia, in case you were wondering. Muy bien, pues es estodo. That's your football vocabulary essentials in Spanish. Espero que telos pasado Muy bien, escuchando este episodio. It's been an absolute pleasure to talk to you about 2 of my language learning and football. Hasta bronto y happy Coffee breaking Adios.
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