English Through Football Podcast – World Cup 2014 Spain vs Netherlands

In this short podcast the languagecaster team look back at the 2014 World Cup and in particular the game between Spain and the Netherlands which was recently broadcast on FIFA.com. As there is no football going on anywhere around the world due to the continued Coronavirus outbreak, the organising body of world football are showing classic games from the history of the World Cup using the Twitter handle #WorldCupAtHome and we thought we’d watch those games and look at some of the language that was used to describe the games.You can listen to the podcast by clicking on the file below – you can also subscribe and listen to all our football-language podcasts – there are hundreds of them! If you’d like to show your support for what we do then think about becoming a patron (through Patreon). There is a transcript for this show which may help you to improve your language skills by reading as you listen, or if you are a teacher of English you can use the transcript to make different kinds of activities for your learners. If you have any questions, suggestions or comments then please email us at: [email protected] (Damian=DF).

Introduction

DF: Hello again everybody, 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 keeping safe wherever you are around the world. I am in London where the weather is still clear and sunny but we are, like many others, in lockdown meaning of course that we all have to stay at home.

Now as regular listeners know the languagecaster team is made up of myself here in London and Damon who is based in Tokyo – we have many years of experience of recording a podcast in different time zones – and as I mentioned in our last podcast on Monday we are going to continue producing our football language podcasts over the next few weeks in which we discuss some of the words, phrases, cliches, expressions and sayings from the beautiful game of football. We are in the process of adding more content to our football language website here at languagecaster including a new football language quiz on non-English words in English football, another quiz on football pitch markings, and thanks to my local park for this, while we have also re-posted a listening report from 2011 on Johann Cruyff which includes a transcript and vocabulary support.

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Learn English Through Football Podcast: World Cup 2014 Spain vs Netherlands

DF: Now on today’s podcast we go back to a match from the 2014 World Cup in Brazil between Spain and the Netherlands which really helped to kick start the tournament as it produced one of the bigges...