World Cup: Soccer / Football vocabulary

Perhaps it is the most practiced sport in the world today, but do you know this vocabulary about soccer?

Talvez seja o esporte mais praticado no mundo hoje, mas você conhece esse vocabulário sobre futebol?

Vocabulário:

• Atacante: Striker/Forward;
• Árbitro: Referee/Ref
• Camisa: Jersey;
• Cabeçada: Header
• Caneleiras: Shinguards;
• Chutar: To kick;
• Chuteira: Cleats;
• Cobrança de pênalti: Penalty Kick;
• Cruzamento: Cross;
• Driblar: To dribble;
• Escanteio: Corner Kick;
• Futebol: Football (British) Soccer (American);
• Intervalo: Hafl-time
• Lateral: Throw-in;
• Marcar um gol: To score a gol;
• Trave: Post, goalpost;
• Travessão: Bar, crossbar;
• Tiro de meta: Goal kick

Positions on the field(American English) -Pitch (British English)

• Atacantes: Forwards/Strikers : Their main function is to score goals;
• Meio Campo: Midfielders can help the forwards and the defenders;
• Defensores: Defenders. They have to stop the other team’s forward;
• Goleiro: Goalkeeper have to save the goals!

Vejamos algumas dessas palavras em uso:

Chutar: To kick

• Neymar kicked towards the goal.

Driblar: To dribble

• Vinicius Junior is a great dribbler.

Marcar um gol: To score a goal.

• Brazil scored 4 goals against South Korea;
• South Korea scored only one goal against Brazil.

Trave: post, goalpost:

• The Spanish soccer player hit the post and Spain lost the match!

Travessão: bar or crossbar.

• The South Korean striker kicked the ball over the crossbar.

Outras frases do futebol:

• Brazil vs Croatia will be played on Friday 9 December 2022, with kick-off scheduled for 12 pm;
• Brasil x Croácia será disputado na sexta-feira, 9 de dezembro de 2022, com início marcado para o meio-dia;

• A player was sent off;
• Um jogador foi expulso;

• It’s a draw!
• Está empatado.

• Four – one for Brazil;
• Quatro a um para o Brasil.

• Neymar returned from injury and converted a penalty.
• Neymar voltou de lesão e converteu um pênalti.

And who do you think will win this World Cup? Is hexa coming? Any guesses?

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