hello welcome to learning English Pro this video is about vocabulary relating to soccer but before we begin make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel and hit the bell to get notified every time we post a new English lesson if you're ready to begin learning about soccer sit back relax and let's start learning English the first thing we need to understand with this game is that is called soccer in American English and football in British English so whichever one is your preference you can use this different nouns like team you can call it a soccer
team or a football team or you could say a soccer player or a football player so let's move on and look at some different nouns associated with soccer or football soccer is played on a field we call a pitch and the pitch is usually covered in grass which is kept short and most soccer games are played outdoors with some soccer games you may play it on an artificial surface we call astroturf and this material can be used sometimes in indoor soccer games indoor games usually consist of smaller teams a team with just five players would
be called a five-a-side team soccer can also be played in a stadium which is for much bigger games like an international soccer game between two different countries and most soccer games have 11 players especially official FIFA games let's take some time to understand in English what positions different players can play in any soccer game is comprised of two different teams which are opposing each other the first position we will look at is the goalkeeper repeat after me goalkeeper the goalkeepers position is at the goal posts goal posts and directly behind the goalkeeper is the net
repeat after me net let's move on to the next position which is defender and there is usually two or three defenders on each soccer team the next position is the sweeper repeat after me sweeper and when this player has the opportunity he or she will run all the way up the pitch with the ball to surprise the other team the next position we will look at is midfielder this position is called this because you are in the middle of the field when you're in this position depending on where you are you could be a defensive
midfielder a central midfielder or an attacking midfielder so as you can see there are subcategories for each position moving on the next position we will look at is a forward and these players are offensive players they play near the opposing team's goal post the last position we'll discuss is a striker this is a player whose job it is to score a goal and the striker brings us to the end of our list of positions in soccer let's move on and have a look at some more nouns relating to soccer and first up we have a
soccer ball which is American English and next up we have a football which is of course British English and of course you can just use the word ball if you prefer our next word describes people who are very enthusiastic about football and in their team in particular these could be called followers or they could be called supporters or they could be called simply fans next up we have a person who is very important in any soccer game the referee repeat after me referee the referee might give you a yellow card if you do something against
the rules or act in a bad way if you do something very serious during a soccer match you might get a red card which means the referee will remove you from the game a referee can also award a penalty shoot-out this gives a player the opportunity to score a goal against the other team repeat after me Elte shoot out our next word is probably the most important noun in soccer the goal repeat after me goal okay let's move on to some verbs relating to soccer along with some example sentences our first verb is to kick
repeat after me kick let's use this verb in a past tense of sentence example the striker picked the soccer ball after the penalty shoot-out the striker kicked the soccer ball after the penalty shoot-out our next verb is to dribble repeat after me dribble and this verb means to run along with the ball let's say it one more time dribble let's use this verb in a past tense sentence the sweeper dribbled the ball up at the pitch towards the goal posts the sweeper dribbled the ball of the pitch towards the goal posts our next verb is
to pass repeat after me pass and our sentence example is the defenders pass the ball to each other the defenders pass the ball to each other and now it's time for our last verb of our video to score repeat after me score and our sentence example is the forward player pass the ball to the striker who scored a goal the forward player passed the ball to the striker who scored a goal and that sentence example brings us to the end of our soccer vocabulary video well done you've learned lots of new English and if you
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