English Through Football Podcast – 1994 World Cup Italy vs Nigeria: In this podcast we continue with our reviews of some of the great World Cup matches by looking at the 1994 World Cup last-16 match between Italy and Nigeria. This is another game from the #WorldCupAtHome series from FIFA.com in which we look back at some of the language around this game and the rest of the 1994 tournament. You can listen to the podcast by clicking on the file below while you can also subscribe and listen to all our football-language podcasts. If you’d like to show your support for what we do then think about becoming a patron (through Patreon). There is a transcript for this show which may help you to improve your language skills by reading as you listen, or if you are a teacher of English you can use the transcript to make different kinds of activities for your learners. We also have an online gap-fill quiz below. If you have any questions, suggestions or comments then please email us at: admin@languagecaster.com (Damian=DF). Introduction DF: Hello again everyone, this is Damian from the languagecaster team and you are listening to the Learn English Through Football Podcast. We hope you are all well and still staying safe in these difficult times – I’m here in London on a typical Spring day: wind, rain and now we have a little sunshine! Now as many of you may know, here at languagecaster.com we have been following some of the classic World Cup matches that have featured on FIFA.com’s website in their #WorldCupAtHome series. We have already looked at the match between Spain and the Netherlands from the 2014 World Cup, the quarter-final between the Netherlands and Brazil from the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the second round match between Brazil and Italy from 1982 and the cracker between France and Brazil in the quarter-final of the 1986 World Cup. On today’s podcast we look back at the 1994 World Cup last-16 match between Nigeria and Italy. Now, for this World Cup I watched the games in two different places: For the first-round group games I was in Málaga in the south of Spain – watching the Ireland vs Italy match was a particular highlight! I then returned to Ireland for the summer and that’s where I watched the rest of the tournament and this game between Italy and Nigeria.  In this podcast, first of all, we look at some of the context and build-up to the finals and then we discuss some of the language used to talk about the game itself before finishing up with a quick look at what happened in the rest of the tourna...