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2022 World Cup Language Podcast Day 11: Peach of a Free Kick (Mexico vs Saudi Arabia)

Today’s World Cup language podcast looks at the phrase, ‘a peach of a free kick‘ which was used to describe the second Mexican goal in their 2-1 victory over Saudi Arabia. You can read the transcript for this podcast below, while you can also check out our glossary of footballing phrases here and visit our site to access all our previous posts and podcasts. If you have any suggestions or questions then you can contact us at admin@languagecaster.com.

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2022 World Cup Language Podcast Day 11: Peach of a Free Kick (Mexico vs Saudi Arabia)

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DF: Hello again everyone and welcome to Languagecaster.com – the football-language podcast for learners and teachers of English. I’m Damian and I’m based here in a chilly London and of course the other member of the Languagecaster team is Damon and he is based in Japan. Indeed, you might have heard him on yesterday’s World Cup language podcast when explaining the phrase ‘side footer‘ – this was from the Ecuador versus Senegal game on day 10 of the tournament. On today’s World Cup language podcast – this is of course day 11 – I am going to explain the phrase ‘a peach of a free kick‘ after Mexican player Luis Chávez‘ wonder strike against Saudi Arabia in their Group C game.

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Martin’s opener from close range and Chavez’s peach of a free-kick gave them hope, but two disallowed goals crushed any optimism of advancing out of the group. (BBC.co.uk, November 30 2022)
This is how the BBC reported on the first of Mexico’s two goals in their 2-1 win over Saudi Arabia. So, this goal gave Mexico a two-goal lead and a chance of qualifying for the knock-out stages although it was not to be as in the final moments their opponents grabbed a consolation goal. But this set piece goal from Chávez was beautiful – even though the free kick was over 25 meters out from goal, Chávez hit the ball with power and accuracy as he curled it over the wall and into the corner of the net (the top bins?). A stunner. So, if something is described as being like a peach, which of course is a fruit, then it usually means it is really positive; it is something really beautiful or wonderful – just like Chávez’ goal. In football, this phrase can be used with a goal, so, ‘a peach of a goal’ – or a cross or pass ‘a peach of a pass‘ which means the pass (or centre) was really beautiful. Unfortunately for Chávez, and for Mexico, their two disallowed goals meant they could not make it out of the group for the first time in eight finals. Sorry about that Mexico.

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DB: Yes, you are listening to languagecaster and that message was from a Spain supporter – I wonder how they’re feeling? It would be great to hear from anyone else who might like to share this message, ‘you are listening to Languagecaster.com‘. Don’t forget there’s a transcript to this short podcast and there’s lots of vocabulary support which you can access by coming along to our site. We think it’s a great resource for those learning and teaching the language.

OK, that’s it for this podcast in which we looked at the phrase ‘a peach of a free kick‘ which was used to describe the second Mexican goal in their win over Saudi Arabia. Let us know if you see a peach of a free kick or peach of a cross or peach of a goal from another game in this tournament. And, we’ll be back with some more World Cup football language tomorrow. Enjoy all the football and we’ll see you then. Bye bye!

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