English Through Football Podcast – 1990 World Cup Netherlands vs West Germany: In this podcast we continue with our reviews of some of the great World Cup matches by looking at the 1990 World Cup last-16 match between West Germany and the Netherlands. This is another game from the #WorldCupAtHome series from FIFA.com in which we look back at some of the language around this game and the rest of the 1990 tournament.

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Introduction

DF: Hello again everyone, this is Damian from the languagecaster team and you are listening to the Learn English Through Football Podcast. We hope you are all well and still staying safe. I’m here in London where the weather is bright and very warm and hopefully the weather is good where you are.

Right, on today’s podcast we continue with our series of watching some of the classic World Cup matches that have featured on FIFA.com’s website in their #WorldCupAtHome series and on today’s podcast we’ll feature a game from the 1990 World Cup between West Germany and the Netherlands. We have already looked at the match between Spain and the Netherlands from the 2014 World Cup, the quarter-final between the Netherlands and Brazil from the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the second round match between Brazil and Italy from 1982, the cracker between France and Brazil in the quarter-final of the 1986 World Cup and the 1994 World Cup last-16 match between Nigeria and Italy. So, in this podcast, we’ll look at some of the background to the 1990 World Cup and and then discuss some of the language used to talk about the match between the Dutch and the Germans; before ending with a review of what happened in the rest of the tournament.

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1990 World Cup: Background

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