The qualifying rounds for the 2024 European Championship tournament in Germany begin this week and on this short football language podcast we take a look at some of the language used to describe the qualifying rounds by focusing on some key numbers. 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. 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:'QoVGxIZdTGdoJ1lziRhypQ',sig:'X_wXZ5LBJvVQ0VfdB_hWPlil5zkeNBSY9qEvxSIyvZs=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1345012991',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});   Learn English Through Football Language Podcast: 2024 European Championship Qualifiers in Numbers DF: Hello again everyone and welcome to Languagecaster.com – the football-language podcast for learners and teachers of English. I’m Damian and I’m here in London where spring has arrived finally, so this of course means it is wet and windy here in the UK! The other member of the Languagecaster team is Damon who regular listeners to the show will know is based in Japan. I wonder if he is starting to see any signs of Spring in Tokyo yet? He also posted a recent podcast on the phrase ‘to secure’ and looked at the expressions ‘to secure the title’ and ‘to secure the points‘ as well as ‘to earn’ – you can find this and lots of other resources on our Learning English Through Football site here at Languagecaster.com. Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in Czech) OK, I hope you are all doing well and enjoying all the football. It’s been a tough couple of weeks for us Tottenham fans after the manager Antonio Conte appeared to have lost the dressing room after publicly criticising the players – you can come along to our site to explore the meaning of this phrase ‘lose the dressing room‘ in more detail along with hundreds of other football-related phrases in our glossary. Now, one of the phrases that we have talked about recently on our site is ‘the international break‘ which is a period of time when domestic football in some of the top leagues and divisions around the world takes a break as players go and play for (or represent) their countries in international competitions and friendlies. There are games taking place all over the world – there are qualifiers for the 2023 African Cup of Nations and for the CONCACAF Nations League – that’s of course for countries fro...