English Through Football Podcast – 1986 World Cup Quarter final – France vs Brazil: In this podcast the languagecaster team looks back at one of the greatest matches in World Cup history – the 1986 quarter-final match between France and Brazil. This is another game from the #WorldCupAtHome series from FIFA.com in which we look back at some of the words and phrases used to describe the game itself and of course we review what happened afterwards in the rest of the 1986 tournament.

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Introduction

DF: Hello again everybody, this is Damian from the languagecaster team and you are listening to the Learn English Through Football Podcast. Yes, we hope everyone is well and safe, and of course still staying indoors as we wait for football to return – hopefully very, very soon.

Now as many will know, here at languagecaster.com we have been following some of the classic World Cup matches that have been featuring on FIFA.com’s website in their #WorldCupAtHome series. We have already looked at the match between Spain and the Netherlands from the 2014 World Cup and the quarter-final between the Netherlands and Brazil from the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and on today’s podcast we look at the 1986 World Cup quarter-final match between France and Brazil. We start off by looking back at some of the context to the match – how did the sides reach the last eight – and then we look at some of the words and phrases used to describe the game itself including in the ‘penalty shoot out‘, before finishing up with a look back at how the rest of the tournament finished.

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Background

DF: Now, the 1986 World Cup was the second time that Mexico had hosted the tournament (the first was in 1970) after first-choice hosts Colombia had dropped out due to economic reasons. 24 sides took part in the competition and this number was reduced to 16 after the group stages which did not really see too many shocks. The hosts Mexico,