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Football Language: Take One for the Team

In this post, we explain the football phraseA ‘Take One for the Team’.Take One for the Team

  • Find out more about this phrase by reading the transcript below.
  • You can also find many more examples of soccer vocabulary by going to our football cliches page here and our huge football glossary here.

Football Language:A Take One for the Team

This verb phrase refers to a situation when a player deliberately fouls an opponent to stop a very dangerous attack. ‘One‘ means a yellow card, so the player knows that their tackle will mean a yellow card. They also think if they don’t foul the opponent the attack may result in a goal, so they decide a foul is a good option. They do it to help the team. When pundits use this phrase it often has a positive meaning: the pundits think it was a logical thing to do, even though it is against the laws of the game.

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