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In this football language podcast we look back at some of the phrases that emerged from the 2020 Women’s Olympic Final between Canada and Sweden, including ‘sudden-death‘ and ‘decisive penalty‘ which came from the Guardian report. You can read a 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.
Learn English Through Football Language Podcast: 2020 Women’s Olympic Final
DF: Hello everyone, this is Damian from the Languagecaster.com team – I hope you are all doing well. Now we’ve been taking a short break over the summer but in today’s show we look at some of the words and phrases from the 2020 Women’s Olympic final between Canada and Sweden that took place in Yokohama, Japan. Some of the words we look at include: sudden-death and decisive penalty which were used to describe the Canadian win in the penalty shootout to claim their first ever gold medal.
Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in Swedish).
- decisive penalty
- back-to-back silver medalists
- sudden-death penalty shootout
- cancelled out
- first-half strike
- force the game beyond 90 minutes
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Good Bye
DF: Yes, you are listening to languagecaster.com – that message was in Dutch. Don’t forget that there’s a transcript to this podcast and lots of vocab support which you can access by coming along to our site. OK, that’s it for this short podcast – we hope you enjoyed our look at the phrases from the 2020 Women’s Olympic final and congratulations again to Canada for winning their first Olympic title. Don’t forget you can find lots of football language on our site here at languagecaster.com, including a huge glossary of football expressions, cliches and terms. Enjoy all the football this week and we’ll see you again soon. Bye bye.