Archive for September, 2010

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Club football returns to Europe this week with domestic leagues around the continent re-starting which will then be followed by the Champions League group stages next week. We have 6 of the biggest games from around Europe to predict. This week’s guest predictor is Mimi who is a Stuttgart fan.

The European Championship qualifiers started last week and there were good performances from England, Germany, Holland and Italy who won both of their games comfortably. However, Portugal have had a dreadful start to their campaign with a defeat and a home draw, while there was bad news for many Premier League players as Defoe, Dawson, Walcott, Van Persie and Kuyt all suffered what could be long-term injuries. This weekend sees the return of European league football, while on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week sees the return of the Champions League group stages. These stories and more all feature on this week’s languagecaster.com’s weekly football podcast. For more football news come to our site, read the posts, listen to our main reports and check out our links section. continue

The European Championship qualifiers are up and running and on this week’s show we feature this and many other stories on languagecaster.com’s weekly football podcast. For more football news come to our site, read the posts, listen to our main reports and check out our links section. continue

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On this week’s podcast we ask two England fans what they think about Fabio Capello and England. Remember you can also:

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Each week on languagecaster’s podcast we feature a main listening report and on this week’s show we ask a couple of football fans what they think of the ‘new look’ Fabio Capello’s England team. You can listen to the report by clicking the link below and can also read the transcript. Explanations of vocabulary in bold appear at the foot of the post.

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Damian: Right, it doesn’t seem so long ago since we were watching the World Cup, now, of course, we’ve got a new tournament, the European Championships kicking off and England are playing Bulgaria and Switzerland. There’s been a real movement in the English press at the moment about the manager Fabio Capello, so we’ve asked a couple of England fans their thoughts on the manager. Jonathan, how are you doing?
Jonthan: Very well Damian thank you.
Damian: OK, the European Championships are about to start this weekend, what’s your feeling on the new England?
Jonathan: The new England? Well, hopefully they will have bounced back from their World Cup – not a very successful World Cup I guess for a number of reasons … and my opinion of Capello as manager? Well, I think it would be foolish to get rid of him now but I think there was a point when most English fans were quite disappointed by the fact that he was… seemed to be quite stubborn, especially in selecting formations and players. continue

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A new coach for Japan, a glaring miss by Manchester City’s captain, and Ibra slams Pep. These stories and more feature in this week’s the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, which can be heard on our weekly podcast. Vocabulary support can be found for the words in bold at the foot of the post.

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Good news for Japanese football fans as Alberto Zaccheroni is named as the new coach of the national side. The 57 year old is the first ever Italian manager of the Asian powerhouses and he will be looking to try and maintain the progress that the side made during their recent successful World Cup campaign. The former Milan and Juventus coach will bring lots of experience to the team though this is his first ever post as a national team coach. He has stated that his main aim is to qualify for the Brazil 2014 World Cup but before that there is the not so small matter of the Asian Championships taking place in Qatar early next year. continue

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Some big international games this week as the European Championship qualifiers start. On this week’s predictions we feature four of these matches and try to predict which teams will be making a good start to their campaigns. This week’s guest predictor is Chris, a Leeds fan.

Current Score: DB 3 | DF 8 | Guest 5

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Every week during the 2010-11 season, the languagecaster team explain a football phrase or cliché. Click on the link below to hear the word or phrase and you can also read the transcript below that. You can find many more examples by going to our football phrase page here football clichés here and our huge football glossary here.

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