Football/Soccer Vocabulary

FOOTBALL (UK)  = SOCCER (USA)

ASSISTANT REFEREE (LINESMAN): an officcial who is at touchlines and who advises the referee.

AWAY GAME: When the team has to travel to play the match at another team’s stadium.

BOOKING: To be awarded a yellow card.

BOOT: to kick.

CONCEDE the goal: when a goalkeeper allows a goal to be scored. 

CORNER KICK: a kick from one of the corners of the pitch.

DEAD BALL: when ball is not moving. All free and penalty kicks must be taken from a dead ball.

DEFENDER: a player who stops the other team from scoring a goal. 

DIRECT (INDIRECT) FREE KICK: a chance for a player from one of the teams to kick the ball from a position shown by the referee and score from the kick directly ( but not to score directly).

DIVING (Dives): an attempt by a player to get an unfair advantage by deliberately falling over and thus deceiving the referee that it was a foul.

DRAW: when the both teams scored the same number of goals (0:0, 1:1, 2:2, etc.).

EQUALIZER: a goal that makes the score equal.

EXTRA TIME: two additional 15 minutes periods after the match has ended in a draw in order to decide the winner.

FOUL: an illegal action taken by one of the players against his opponent.

GOALKEEPER: the only player who can catch the ball by hands and whose role is to stop the ball from entering the goal.

HAND BALL: an offense by playing by hand.

HEADER: hitting the ball with the head. 

HIT THE POST

LOCKER ROOM: A room for the team palyers to change into their uniforms. 

MIDFIELDER: a player who stays mostle in the middle of the pitch. 

OFFSIDE: a football law requiring at least one player from the opposing team to be between an attacker and goal line when the attacker receives the ball from his teamate.

PASS: to send the ball to another player from own team.

PENALTY: a free kick from the penalty spot

PENALTY SHOOTOUT: to have a set of kicks from the penalty spot to decide a winner if the match is still tied even after extra time

PITCH: the playing field.

PROMOTION: when a team won its category and will play in a higher category in the next season.

RED CARD: punishment which sends the player off the pitch.

RELEGATION: the opposite of promotion and a team playing in lower category in the next season.

SHIN PADS

SKIPPER: a captain. 

STANDS: the place where the spectators sit in the stadium. 

STOPPAGE TIME: a period of time added to the end of each half of a football game to compensate for time lost in that half.

STRIKER (Forward): a player who scores the goals. 

SUBSTITUTE: a player who replaces another player

THROW IN: to throw the ball in after it has crossed one of the touchlines

TOUCHLINE: the lines along both sides of the pitch

WALL: a barrier made of players to block a free kick

YELLOW CARD:: a warning to a player for a foul, two yellow cards in one match result in the red car, free yellow cards in a league, tournament (several matches) result in banning from playing in another match

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