On this football language podcast for learners of English, we look ahead to the 2022 World Cup and at some of the players who may miss out due to injuries. You can read the 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 – we have lots of World Cup resources too. If you have any suggestions or questions then you can contact us at admin@languagecaster.com.   Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'RzC3dDjdSgxGyXuyQ7H4MQ',sig:'mYYEoAu7iK8uI17GmdOqv-CordOx-GDa8maGDd0i4tA=',w:'396px',h:'594px',items:'1438212781',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })}); Football Language Podcast: World Cup 2022 Fitness Concerns DF: Hello everyone and welcome to Languagecaster.com – the football-language podcast for learners of English who love the beautiful game of football. I’m Damian and I am one half of the Languagecaster team and I am based in a really, really wet London, while of course the other member of the team is Damon who is based in Tokyo in Japan – I wonder if World Cup excitement is building there? Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in Hungarian) DF: OK, on this podcast, we will continue with our 2022 World Cup build up and on this show we take a look at the language of injuries. Unfortunately, many players are in danger of missing out on playing in the finals mainly because there have been so many matches played in both domestic leagues and continental tournaments, such as the Champions League in Europe, in a really short space of time. This has meant that players have been over-worked and have had very little time to recover – there are high-pressure matches every three or four days for many of the players from the big clubs. So, we’ll take a look at some of the high-profile players who will or could still miss out on the Qatar tournament. Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in Norwegian) Ruled out DF: OK, so here are some of the players who are definitely out of the tournament. Paul Pogba suffered a knee injury in the summer and is ruled out, while his fellow French midfielder N’Golo Kante will also miss out – he has a hamstring problem, The absence of those two players will be a big blow for France in their bid to regain the World Cup trophy. Portugal are another side that will be weakened due to injuries with forward Diogo Jota set to miss the tournament along with fellow forward Ruben Neves: Jota has a thigh injury and Neves an ankle injury. The Dutch midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum will not play because he fractured his tibia in his right leg, German striker Timo Werner misses out due to an ankle problem and Argentinian midfielde...