GOOD BYE FOOTBALL WORLD CUP RUSSIA 2018 (2ND PART)

In this post we will study nowadays and the most common expressions used in football during world cup and in our daily life.  I’m talking about the vocabulary present in every game and we lived all the football World Cup 2018. In the end, I’ll give you some details and Football vocabulary and just out of curiosity, some curiosities about the Football World.

 Let’s get started!!💓

WHAT WE LEARN NOWADAYS: COMMON PHRASES AND EXPRESSIONS IN SPANISH COMING FROM FOOTBALL.

HOW TO USE THEM. 

USAR LA CAMISETA (Wearing the shirt): It is very important to wear the colors of the team you like or the colors in the flag or uniform of your country. This also means you have to give all for your company, or an institution, or any mutual project. 

(Colgar los guayos (col)/botines (Argentina) / tenis (Guatemala y México)) To Hang your Soccer cleats : In Colombia, this means to die. Literally. In Argentina they say: To hang your sneakers “Colgar los tenis “. There isn’t a softer way to say this. It also means leave, or retire, stop playing (metaphorically), stop doing something for good.

Dar bola (Give Ball):  Show interest or pay attention.

Sacar la roja (Red card) :Punish someone or kick someone from an activity.

Marca Personal (Personal Check): To control someone’s movements.

Embarró la cancha (Splattered the court with mud): Make difficult any situation.

Gambetear: To dodge a question or a situation.

Pegó en el palo (The ball hit the post) : To get almost a guessing, or to wriggle out.

Marcar la cancha (Out to mark political turf): Establish conditions, setting the rules. 

Pasarla por arriba (Gloss Over) : Gloss over, avoid, or wriggle out something.  

Le metió un golazo (He/She scored a goal): He/She did something difficult or unlikely. Something impossible.

Sudarse la camiseta (Sweating the Shirt ): Do a good job.

¡ Que autogol! (What an own goal): We use this when someone who did something wrong gets it back. 

Some examples for these expressions:  

More Vocabulary: ( Video)   

Mina: It’s an informal way to call a girl in Argentina. 

Volverse loco (Get Crazy): Have an irrational behavior.

Pibe: It’s a name for boys and men both young and adult.  

                                          FOOTBALL  VOCABULARY

I don’t really know how this works in other languages, but in Spanish there are some expressions for football moves. Today, I am going to speak about the more common exressions:

SCISSORS (LA TIJERA O TIJERETA): also known as Media  Chilean. It is a play used in football and consists of the player hitting the ball, lifting his legs in the air and crossing them - hence the origin of the name-, generally in a position parallel to the field and through the instep. Usually, the scissors serves as a pass or auction at a medium distance.

THE HAT PLAY (EL SOMBRERITO): The player kicks the ball over an opponent and and retakes control of the ball.

THE BIKE (LA BICICLETA): It is a dribble that consists of encircling the ball with the foot simulating a strike without it moving from its position in order to unbalance and deceive the opponent.

FLY LIKE A PIGEON (LANZARSE DE PALOMITA): a great stop made by the archer stretching in a lateral jump.  

LA CHILENA: For peruvians it’s called “La chalaca”. It consists of finishing the ball by pulling the body back to kick it at the height of what would be the head.

GREASE (LA VASELINA): Shooting a curve soft ball in the air over one or several players.  The goals made with this move over the goalie and touching ground before scoring are very classy if done softly.

DIVING (EL PLANCHAZO):  Diving to cut the ball with one or both feet in front, raising the toe and entering with the cleats of the boot in front, generally sliding on the grass.

FAINT OR DODGE (GAMBETA O GAMBETEAR): This is an indigenous dance from Uruguay and Argentina where they move their legs constantly and don’t fall ever. This term is used in Mar del Plata for dribbles and dodges. To mock the defender with dodges and dribbles.

CURIOSITIES OF FOOTBALL

The passion for football makes irreverent human beings and in turn believing entities of magic and rituals beyond all understanding, where the everyday becomes strange and religious in a practice given to superstition, let's look at some of these practices made before each match, be it local, national or international:

Make the sign of the cross, kiss a scapular, pray to the Lord: (Santiguarse, besar un escapulario, orar al señor): These actions are done by players from many different disciplines, to feel blessed and bless the game so everything goes well. It is also to invoke the Supreme Being for protection and help them make well for themselves and their own families. 

 First, the right foot: Many players enter the court with their right foot. This comes from an old superstition that everything must start on the right foot so everything goes fine. 

The underpants or the socks worn inside out: According to a very old belief, wearing clothes inside-out will have good luck all day long. It means success.

Underwear with something in blue: René Higuita (former Colombian archer), inventor of the scorpion move, had as a ritual to wear blue underwear. Oddly, this superstition for color blue, comes way back in time. We see that in the weddings (something, old something BLUE). This color means luck, but in medieval times it was related to Forces of the Evil. The merging of these  forces gave some magical and luck characteristics to this color as we believe nowadays.

The grass: This is the battlefield between two rivals. Lately it has gained importance in the magical rituals of the football players. Some pee on it (like cats do, to say they own it), touched or caressed before the game (it’s a belief for positive energy for having a good game), some other players add salt to the court (mostly in Mexico) because to us in this hemisphere, we shoo away bad luck with salt.  

Other Costumes people have: They take the flag to watch the game, and they avoid number thirteen in the tshirts (in Uruguay). Also they kiss the arches.  

💓I hope you enjoyed the reading💓

WRITTEN BY ADRIANA MARTINEZ