Football Language Podcast: World Cup 2010 Brazil vs Netherlands
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Apr 04, 2020
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00:07:50

World Cup 2010 Brazil vs Netherlands: In this podcast the languagecaster team looks back at the 2010 World Cup quarter-final match between the Netherlands and Brazil which is another game from the #WorldCupAtHome by FIFA.com

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English Through Football Podcast – World Cup 2010 Brazil vs Netherlands: In this podcast the languagecaster team looks back at the 2010 World Cup quarter-final match between the Netherlands and Brazil which is another game from the #WorldCupAtHome by FIFA.com and which was shown last weekend. We look at the background to that match, as well as some of the words and phrases used to describe the game itself and of course we review what happened afterwards in the rest of the 2010 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. If you have any questions, suggestions or comments then please email us at: admin@languagecaster.com (Damian=DF). Introduction DF: Hello again everybody, 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 keeping safe wherever you are. As you may know, the languagecaster team has decided to follow some of the matches being shown on FIFA.com in their #WorldCupAtHome series. We have already looked at the match between Spain and the Netherlands from the 2014 World Cup and this week we take a look at the quarter-final match between the Netherlands and Brazil from the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. We start off by looking at some of the background to the match, and then we look at some of the words and phrases used to describe the game itself including the cliche ‘game of two halves‘. We wrap up with a review of what happened in the rest of the 2010 tournament. Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in Portuguese from Brazil) Background: World Cup Quarter-Final – 2010 Brazil vs Netherlands DF: This was the first ever World Cup to take place in Africa and it was the first tournament for many years that I watched while in London which meant that as South Africa is only an hour ahead in time zones I was not watching games late into the night. Of course, I was disappointed that Ireland had not made it – they had been beaten by France in a play-off in a controversial manner – I’m still angry about it. But I remember that I organised my holidays in such a way that I was able to watch every game throughout the tournament – great days indeed! There were some shocks early on in the tournament – both finalists from four years previously failed to make it out of their respective fi...

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