Spanish football vocabulary explained
6/8/202613 min
Whether you're watching a match or chatting with friends, football comes up a lot in the Spanish-speaking world. In this episode, Pablo covers the vocabulary you need, from the basics like 'el estadio' and 'el árbitro' to the phrases fans shout at the screen.
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First 90 secondsPablo· Host0:00
Hola, hola. ¿Cómo estamos? Soy Pablo de Coffee Break Spanish, y hoy vamos a hablar de fútbol. Football or soccer, if you prefer. Así que get ready because you are going to learn the vocabulary and phrases you actually need to talk about football in Spanish. Vamos allá. [music playing] To begin, let's, uh, imagine we are arriving at a football match. So the first thing we would do is we actually walk into el estadio. That's the stadium. You can also say el campo de fútbol, though this refers more to the pitch itself. And I'm thinking of another word for pitch, which is, uh, la cancha. I really like this one, and it's more used in Latin American Spanish, but it's again the same, pitch. Perfecto. ¿Qué más? Ah, the people attending, very important, are los hinchas o los aficionados, the fans. And you can also use la afición for the fan base, uh, as a whole. Uh, what else? On the pitch, of course, we have, uh, los jugadores,