In this post, we explain the football phraseA ‘Spill the ball’.
- 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: To spill the ball
DF: If a goalkeeper makes a save and then allows the ball to escape his or her hands we say that the ball has been spilled, that the keeper has spilled the ball. The could mean that a forward who is following in can take advantage and score with a tap in.
This phrase was brought to our attention from one of the friends of the show Amadeu in Brazil who asked about the phrase ‘to spill’ from the following example: “Bale took a shot that was spilled by Sociedad goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli, and Ronaldo then managed to finish off the chance.”
Example: Germany drew first blood in the 19th minute when Josephine Henning headed home after Italian keeper Laura Giuliani spilled the ball following Dzsenifer Marozsan’s free-kick (The Local.it, July 2017).
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Nice job guys. Good to know about parry a shot as well. Thank you.