Culture Class:World Cup Chinese

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The 2010 FIFA World Cup is the 19th FIFA World Cup, the premier international association football tournament. It is being held in South Africa. If you are trying to learn Chinese, why not get in touch with these soccer terms in Chinese when you feast your eyes on the match.　Now we provide you the professional soccer terms and the related short forms in Chinese for all you want to know and also the way to use Chinese language in World Cup. Let's start!

shè                                        mén
Shots Greece mustered only a couple of blocked shots and appealed desperately for a late penalty when Gekas' shot hit a defender.
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jiǎo                                       qiú
Corner Kick Heinze's goal came in the sixth minute, when he took advantage of weak defense to power in a shot from 12 yards off Juan Sebastian Veron's corner kick.
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rèn                             yì                              qiú
Free Kick Ki Sung-yong's seventh-minute free kick went over a group of players and to an unmarked Lee Jung-soo at the far post to tap in and convert South Korea's first chance on goal.
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diǎn                                      qiú
Penalty Kick The visual effect in sport is extremely important. If the signal stops at the penalty kick, the viewers will kill us.
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yuè                                          wèi
Offside A player is in an offside position if he is in his opponents' half of the field and is closer to his opponents' goal line than both the ball and all but zero or one of his opponents.
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huáng                                         pái
Yellow Card The Brazilian referee issued five yellow cards during Italy's 2-0 first-round victory over Ghana.
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hóng                                         pái
Red Card Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez did not comment on the red card.
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wū                           lóng                              qiú
Own Goals The Dutch took the lead through a fluke own goal in the 46th when Denmark defender Simon Poulsen headed a ball off the back of teammate Daniel Agger and into the net, when trying to clear a cross from Robin van Persie.
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xiǎo                           zǔ                              sài
Group Phase Argentina will face Greece, Nigeria and South Korea in the group phase.
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jué                                                 sài
Final The World Cup final is being transmitted live to over fifty countries.
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足球常用汉语口语

jīn tiān de bǐ sài yī dìng jīng cǎi。

Today's game will be exciting！

shì a ，jīn tiān shì a gēn tíng duì hán guó。

Yeah, Argentina will play against Korea tonight.

nǐ kàn hǎo nǎ zhī qiú duì ？

Which team do you root for?

a gēn tíng ，tā men jué duì shì gè qiáng duì 。

Argentina has an incredibly strong team.

nǐ jué de a gēn tíng duì lǐ shuí de qiú jì zuì bàng ？

Who is the best player in the Argentinean squad.

dāng rán shì méi xī 。

Of course Messi.

bǐ sài kāi shǐ le ，

The match kicked off.

yī guā yīn shè mén le 。

Gonzalo Higuaín got a good shot.

hǎo qiú ！

Nice shot!

bǐ fēn shì sì bǐ yī ，a gēn tíng duì yíng le ！

Argentina was the winner by a score of 4-1 over South Korea.

nǐ zuó tiān kàn le bā xī duì kē tè dí wǎ de bǐ sài ma ？

Did you watch the Brazil vs Ivory Coast match last night?

kàn le ，hěn jī liè 。

It was really a good match.

shuí yíng le ？

Who won?

bā xī yíng le ，jìn jí shí liù qiáng 。

Brazil won and will be going to the second round.

gēn bā xī duì bǐ ，kē tè dí wǎ duì shì ruò le xǔ duō 。

Compared with Brail, Ivory Coast is not as good.

jǐ bǐ jǐ ?

What was the score?

sān bǐ yī 。

3:1

nǐ jué de nǎ gè duì huì shì guàn jūn ？

Which team do you think will become champion in this year’s World Cup?

xī wàng shì a gēn tíng 。

Hopefully Argentina.

mǎ lā duō nà hé tā de duì wǔ jué duì yǒu kě néng jǔ qǐ dà lì shén bēi 。

Maradona and his squad most likely will hold the Cup.

bú guò ，zài zú qiú bǐ sài zhōng ，yī qiē jiē yǒu kě néng 。

However, the game of soccer is full of possibilities.

zhè jiè shì jiè bēi yǐ jīng yǒu hěn duō yì wài le,

There were many surprises in this year’s World Cup already.

suǒ yǐ ，yě xǔ huì chū xiàn hēi mǎ yě shuō bú dìng 。

So a dark horse may appear.