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Learning English Through Football
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Learning English through Football - for all students of the beautiful game. Soccer language, football cliches and phrases for English language learners. And we have a weekly football-language podcast ⚽️
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Latest Football Language Podcast: Extend their lead learnenglishthroughfootball.com/learn-englis... #FootballPhrase #FootballLanguage #LanguageofFootball #ESL #LearningEnglish #FootballPhrase #LivManC #teachingEnglish #ELT #ESOL #EFL #SoccerVocabulary #LearnEnglishThroughFootball
February 9, 2026 at 10:45 AM
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This week's English for Football phrase is: Scorpion Kick learnenglishthroughfootball.com/weekly-footb... #FootballLanguage #LearnEnglishThroughFootball #SoccerLanguage #FootballPhrase #ScorpionKick #LanguageofFootball
Weekly Football Phrase: Scorpion Kick - Learn English Through Football
This podcast's weekly football phrase is the noun 'a scorpion kick'. This is used to describe a particular kind of shot.
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February 6, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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learnenglishthroughfootball.com/learn-englis... In this week’s #LanguageofFootball podcast we look at language from the Champions League group stage, inc. ‘bullet header‘ #FootballLanguage #ESL #futbol #LearningEnglish #FootballPhrase #teachingEnglish #SoccerVocabulary #LearnEnglishThroughFootball
Learn English Through Football Podcast: Bullet Header - Learn English Through Footbal
In this week's football-language podcast we look back at some of the language from the final round of games from the 2025-26 Champions League
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February 1, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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Latest football language podcast: AFCON missed penalties learnenglishthroughfootball.com/learn-englis... #learnenglishthroughfootball #FootballLanguage #learnEnglish #AFCON25 #Senegal #Morocco
Learn English Through Football Podcast: Missed Penalty (AFCON 2025) - Learn English Through Footbal
In this week's football-language podcast we look back at the AFCON final between Morocco and Senegal and discuss missed penalties
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January 25, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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We've added lots of football-language quizzes to our site. learnenglishthroughfootball.com/community/fo... #FootballLanguage #FootballLanguageQuiz #Football #LearningEnglish #SoccerExpressions #ESOL #EFL #ELT
Football Language Quiz (2)
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January 9, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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What does 'sweep into the quarter-finals' mean? Nigeria swept into the quarter-finals of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon)... #FootballLanguage #AFCON2025 #LearnEnglishThroughFootball #nigeriavsmozambique

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To sweep into the quarter final
Nigeria swept into the quarter-finals of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) with a commanding 4-0 victory over Mozambique in Fes (BBC.co.uk 2026) ...
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January 6, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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Football Language Podcast: The seven stages of being a football manager learnenglishthroughfootball.com/listening-re... #FootballPhrase #FootballLanguage #LanguageofFootball #ESL #futbol #LearningEnglish #teachingEnglish #ELT #ESOL #EFL #SoccerVocabulary #LearnEnglishThroughFootball⚽️⚽️
Football Language Podcast: The seven stages of being a football manager - revisited - Learn English Through Footbal
Seven stages of being a football manager: On this week's language podcast we look at language to describe the role of a football manager
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January 6, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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Football Expression: (the Managerial) Merry-Go-Round learnenglishthroughfootball.com/football-glo... #FootballPhrase #FootballLanguage #LanguageofFootball #ESL #LearningEnglish #teachingEnglish #ELT #ESOL #EFL #SoccerVocabulary #LearnEnglishThroughFootball⚽️⚽️
Football glossary: managerial merry-go-round
Managerial Merry-go-roundWhen managers lose their jobs or resign and move to other clubs. This can start a process where one manager...
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January 6, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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What does 'ride their luck' mean in football #AFCON2025 #FootballExpression #LearnEnglishThroughFootball #FootballLanguageLearning
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Ride their luck
Ten-man Mali rode their luck to beat Tunisia 3-2 on penalties and reach the quarter-finals of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (BBC.co.uk Jan 4 2026) ...
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January 4, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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What does the phrase 'clinical finishing' mean?
#FootballLanguage #LearnEnglishThroughFootball #FootballLanguageQuiz #Clinicalfinisher learnenglishthroughfootball.com/community/fo...
What does the phrase 'clinical finishing' mean?
What does the phrase 'clinical finishing' mean? You can find the answer below.
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December 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Latest Football Language Forum Post: To squeeze past #FootballLanguage #LearningEnglish #LearnEnglishThroughFootball #FootballPhrases #AFCON25 #nigeriavstanzania #FootballLanguage learnenglishthroughfootball.com/community/af...
Nigeria squeeze past Tanzania
If a team squeezes past another team in a game it means that they have won but maybe had some trouble winning the game. To squeeze past someone mea...
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December 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Latest Football Language Podcast: To latch on to learnenglishthroughfootball.com/weekly-footb... #FootballLanguage #LearningEnglish #LearnEnglishThroughFootball #FootballPhrases #TeachEnglish #ListeningPractice #AFCON2025 #FootballLanguage
Weekly Football Phrase: (to) Latch on to - Learn English Through Footbal
This podcast's weekly football phrase is a verb phrase' to latch on to'. This is used to describe a player controlling the ball.
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December 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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New Football language forum post: To reckon - how do we use this verb when making predictions? learnenglishthroughfootball.com/community/la... #FootballPhrase #FootballLanguage #LanguageofFootball #ESL #LearningEnglish #teachingEnglish #ELT #ESOL #EFL #SoccerVocabulary #LearnEnglishThroughFootball
To reckon
To reckon means that someone has an opinion on something or they feel that something will happen. It is like an informal way of saying 'I think'. We...
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December 23, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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learnenglishthroughfootball.com/learn-englis... #FootballPhrase #FootballLanguage #LanguageofFootball #ESL #futbol #LearningEnglish #FootballPhrase #AFCON #teachingEnglish #ELT #ESOL #EFL #SoccerVocabulary #LearnEnglishThroughFootball #AFCON2025 ⚽️⚽️
Learn English Through Football Podcast: AFCON 2025 Preview - Learn English Through Football
In this week's football-language podcast we look forward to AFCON 2025 which starts this weekend in Morocco. We will look at...
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December 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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This podcast’s weekly football phrase is to throw under the bus. which is a phrase used by Mohamed Salah in comments this week. learnenglishthroughfootball.com/weekly-footb...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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In this week’s #LearnEnglishThroughFootballPodcast we look at language from the 2026 World Cup draw and the phrase, ‘to be drawn‘. learnenglishthroughfootball.com/learn-englis...
#FootballPhrase #FootballLanguage #LanguageofFootball #futbol #2026WorldCup #LearningEnglish
#EnglishForFootball
December 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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In this week’s #FootballLanguage podcast we look at language from Copa Libertadores Flamengo and Palmeiras: ‘flying header‘. #FootballPhrase #LanguageofFootball #CopaLibertadores #Flamengo #FlamengoPalmeiras #LearnEnglishThroughFootball #LearnEnglish learnenglishthroughfootball.com/learn-englis...
Learn English Through Football Podcast: 2025 Copa Libertadores Final - Flying Header - Learn English Through Football
In this week's football-language podcast we look at some language from the Copa Libertadores final between Flamengo and Palmeiras.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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learnenglishthroughfootball.com/weekly-footb... #FootballPhrase #FootballLanguage #LanguageofFootball #ESL #futbol #LearningEnglish #FootballPhrase #atthedeath #FIFAWC #teachingEnglish #ELT #ESOL #EFL #SoccerVocabulary #LearnEnglishThroughFootball ⚽️⚽️
Weekly Football Phrase: At the Death - Learn English Through Football
In this football phrase of the week we look at some language from the recent 2026 World Cup qualifier between Hungary and Ireland...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Check out the latest episode of Learn English Through Football - Group Decider Listen to the full podcast here play.headliner.app/episode/3012...
#FootballLanguage #LearnEnglishThroughFootball #FootballLanguagePodcast #groupdecider #HungaryvIreland #2026WorldCup #Ronaldo
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November 19, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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#FootballLanguagePodcast: Claim a spot learnenglishthroughfootball.com/weekly-footb... We look at expressions connected to 'qualify' after the recent 2026 World Cup qualifiers #FootballPhrase #FootballLanguage #LanguageofFootball #LearningEnglish #FootballPhrase #LearnEnglishThroughFootball #ELT
Weekly Football Phrase: Claim a spot - Learn English Through Football
In this football phrase of the week we look at expressions connected to the word 'qualify', including 'claim a spot' after the recent 2026...
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October 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Vairāk par vārdu un tā izrunu meklējiet livonian.tech/meklesanas-r..., ierakstot vārdu “sūomli”.

To learn more about this word and hear its pronunciation go to livonian.tech/en/search-re... and search for “sūomli”.

#līvõkēļ
At the top of the image is the Livonian word "sūomli". Below it are its Latvian translation "soms" and its English translation "Finn". In the middle of the image is an example sentence using the word in Livonian: Sūomlizt broutšizt tuņšlõ līvõ kīeldõ. Below the Livonian sentence on the left is its Latvian translation: Somi brauca pētīt lībiešu valodu. Below the Livonian sentence on the right is its English translation: The Finns traveled to study Livonian. On the bottom right is the hashtag: #līvõkēļ
September 25, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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In this 2021 #FootballLanguagePodcast for learners of English we looked at language from the Ballon d’Or #FootballPhrase #FootballLanguage #LanguageofFootball #LearningEnglish #FootballPhrase #FIFA #TeachingEnglish #LearnEnglishThroughFootball
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Learning English Through Football Podcast: 2021 Ballon d'Or - Learn English Through Football
In this football language podcast, we look at some of the language used to describe the winners from the 2021 Ballon d'Or awards.
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September 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”.

So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
September 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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This week we look at the phrase 'stoppage time goal' after the Champions League kicked off this week. learnenglishthroughfootball.com/learn-englis... #stoppagetimegoal #footballlanguage #learnenglishthroughfootballpodcast #learnEnglish #footballphrase #Englishlearning #ChampionsLeague
Learn English Through Football Podcast: Stoppage Time Goal - Learn English Through Football
In this week's football-language podcast we look at the phrase, 'stoppage time goal' after some late goals in the Champions League this week
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September 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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learnenglishthroughfootball.com/learn-englis... sine big goalkeeping mistakes in this week’s #ChampionsLeaugue: errors, gaffes and blunders! Here’s our football language podcast on the language of goalkeeping errors! #learnenglishthroughfootball
Learn English Through Football Podcast: Goalkeeping Gaffes and an Olimpico - Learn English Through Football
In this football language podcast we are looking at 'goalkeeping gaffes', as well as the term to describe scoring directly from a corner
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September 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM