Futbol

Catholic University of Costa Rica





Linguistics





Analysis about soccer’s language





Nancy Alfaro Solís





Luis Antonio Otarola





Lawrence Vega





August 18, 2012















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Introduction



Soccer is a passionatesport that has much information through events for these reasons it is cataloged as a universal language because it does not matter where it is playing, people from all the world understood what is happened. Add to that people called this sport like an art, duo to it had been much paint in the creation of plays, fans’ faces and the game in general.

“Play soccer should always be so attractive,you must play offensive, and it should be a show.” Johan Cruyft.

Soccer is more than just a sport, it is a feeling (something different) and lives with many people in the world, duo to, in the following assignment, you are going to find the analysis of vocabulary and the expression ways that people usually used when they are watching or playing a soccer game. For example, the expression thata broadcaster use while he is narrating a soccer game or phrases that the fans sang for their teams either opposing team.

“Patea más un pollito dentro de un canasto” Manuel Antonio “Pilo” Obando

Also, in a match the strong language, the racism and the nick names are used for the fans and soccer player´s both on and off the field.

“He is more beautiful than me, but I am better playerthan he” Samuel Eto’o refers to David Beckham.

The assignment contains five chapters in which you are going to find interesting information about colloquial language of soccer through many investigations in radio, games, summaries, books, and so on if you really are lover of soccer.

“Every team who treat well the ball, treat well the viewer” Jorge Valdano







• Soccer’sDefinition



Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. At the turn of the 21st century, the game was played by over 250 million players in over 200 countries, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field of grass or green artificial turf, with a goal in themiddle of each of the short ends. The object of the game is to score by driving the ball into the opposing goal.

In general play, the goalkeepers are the only players allowed to touch the ball with their hands or arms (unless the ball is carried out of play, where the field players are required to re-start by a throw-in of the game ball), while the field players typically use their feetto kick the ball, occasionally using other parts of their legs, their torso or head. The team that scores the most goals by the end of the match wins. If the score is tied at the end of the game, either a draw is declared or the game goes into extra time and/or a penalty shootout, depending on the format of the competition. The Laws of the Game were originally codified in England by the FootballAssociation in 1863 and have evolved since then. Association football is governed internationally by FIFA—Fédération Internationale de Football Association (English: International Federation of Association Football) which organizes the FIFA World Cup every four years.

The rules of association football were codified in England by the Football Association in 1863 and the name association football was coined todistinguish the game from the other forms of football played at the time, specifically rugby football. The term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as an Oxford "- err" abbreviation of the word "association".









• Soccer History

The history of association football, known simply as football, is cited from 1863, year of foundation of The Football...