Talking Football. The Language of the Game: From the Bicycle Kick to the Olympic Goal
M. Muñoz
M. Muñoz · AI-narrated by Martin (from Google)
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Talking Football tells the story of a sport that built its own language as it traveled the world. Every phrase football fans repeat without thinking — bicycle kick, nutmeg, olympic goal, tiki-taka — carries a hidden history of migration, misunderstanding, and invention. This book traces those words back to their real origins, separating documented fact from the beautiful legends that football journalism loves to repeat. It follows the sport's English vocabulary — football, corner, offside — as it crossed oceans and was translated, resisted, or absorbed differently in Spain, Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay, Colombia, Italy, and Germany. Readers meet the bandage-maker whose patients gave the world the word for a football fan, the Basque striker whose nickname became a trophy category, and the goalkeeper whose single penalty save turned his surname into a verb. Written for anyone who has ever shouted at a television during a match, this is a linguistic history told by people who understand that football talk is never just talk — it is how a global game keeps reinventing itself, one borrowed, mistranslated, or invented word at a time.
Talking Football tells the story of a sport that built its own language as it traveled the world. Every phrase football fans repeat without thinking — bicycle kick, nutmeg, olympic goal, tiki-taka — carries a hidden history of migration, misunderstanding, and invention. This book traces those wor...
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