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.
Some examples for these expressions:
Dar bola (Give
Ball): Show interest or pay attention.
Sacar la roja (Red
card) :Punish someone or kick someone from
an activity.
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💓
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| WRITTEN BY ADRIANA MARTINEZ |
