How to Speak Soccer: From Assist to Woodwork: an Illustrated Guide to Pitch-Perfect Jargon
By Sally Cook and Ross Macdonald
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How to Speak Soccer covers all of the terms and definitions that fly around the field and includes fascinating bits of trivia.
Soccer, the world's most popular sport, has a growing fan base with millions of enthusiasts. Whether you're a newcomer to this exciting sport or a longtime fan, in How to Speak Soccer authors Sally Cook and Ross MacDonald share the definitions to over 150 terms, plus a range of amusing trivia. Learn about the history of the World Cup, where red and yellow cards come from, and much more!
-Diving Header: When a player dives horizontally to head a ball at knee-height
-Rainbow Kick: A trick kick that is done by flicking the ball with the back of the heel and over one's head. It is usually employed to avoid a sliding tackle.
-Rocket: A shot that is struck with immense power.
Sally Cook
SALLY COOK is the author, with James Charlton, of How to Speak Baseball and Hey Batta Batta Swing!: The Wild Old Days of Baseball, illustrated by Ross MacDonald. She and Ross MacDonald have also coauthored How to Speak Golf and How to Speak Football. She coauthored, with legendary football coach Gene Stallings, Another Season: A Coach's Story of Raising an Exceptional Son, a New York Times bestseller.
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How to Speak Soccer - Sally Cook
HOW to SPEAK
SALLY COOK and ROSS MACDONALD
From Assist to Woodwork:
An Illustrated Guide to
Pitch-Perfect Jargon
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Table of Contents
About the Authors
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INTRODUCTION
Soccer has been a favorite sport all over the world for many years, and its popularity in America has been rapidly growing for decades. For soccer, as with any sport, getting acquainted with the lingo greatly increases the enjoyment of the game.
For example, you may be confused when you hear fans go on and on about cards.
Are they talking poker or soccer? How about when a reporter refers to group of death,
striker,
booking,
or sudden death
? You might possibly think you’re listening to a homicide investigation. When an announcer speaks of a nutmeg
or a banana kick,
is he offering up some ingredients for dessert? Nope, the announcers, reporters, and fans are most likely just speaking a little soccer.
In this book we’ve pulled together the most commonly used vernacular and paired some of these terms with zany illustrations that are as intriguing as the language. We’ve also included various players’ nicknames and teams’ nicknames. Here you’ll find amusing stories plus some history of the sport. We hope that after reading How to Speak Soccer, you’ll be able to converse with your fellow soccer devotees in no time.
ADDED TIME
Minutes tacked on before halftime or at the end of the game, at the referee’s discretion, due to excessive flopping, fouling, or injuries during the course of play, which causes play to stop although the clock does not. Added time makes up for the time that is lost while the play was stopped. It is unavoidable, which explains why you will usually see play continue after the clock has reached ninety minutes. Also called stoppage time or injury time.
ADDED TIME
AGGREGATE
The combined score of two games. Many of soccer’s most important club competitions are played on a knockout basis or in an elimination tournament. To decide which teams will play against each other, a draw is conducted. The two clubs drawn as a pair play each other twice, a home and an away game. The winner is then decided by simply adding together the scores from the two games. That is the aggregate score. For example, if the score in one Manchester United vs. Arsenal game was Manchester 2, Arsenal 1, and the second game was Manchester 5, Arsenal 0, the aggregate score would be Manchester 7, Arsenal 1.
If the aggregate score is tied, then the