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Subscribe: Weekly Football Phrase
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.
Listen Here: first-choice keeper.mp3 Transcript
This week’s English for Football phrase is ‘first-choice keeper‘. The word keeper is a shortened form of goalkeeper, and first choice means the team’s best player in that position, the one the coach chooses ahead of others. The second-choice keeper will be on the bench and will only be used as a substitute. This week the European Championship qualifiers start and England’s first-choice keeper is Joe Hart of Manchester City. First-choice keeper.
