French for Sport – French for Football – Vocabulary for a Football Match

In this lesson, we cover some words you would hear to describe what’s going on during a football match.

Watch the video as many times as you need, until you feel you can give the French translations as we go!

Now we can see what we’ve learned. Look at the English and see if you can provide the French for these words:

Part 1:

attack	Show une attaque
corner kick	Show le coup de pied de coin
defence	Show la défense
draw	Show le match nul
foul	Show la faute

Part 2:

goal	Show le but
hand ball	Show la balle de la main
match	Show le match de football
offside	Show hors-jeu
pass	Show la passe

Part 3:

penalty	Show le penalty
penalty kick	Show le coup de pied de réparation
penalty shootout	Show les tirs au but
red card	Show le carton rouge
save	Show un arrêt

Part 4:

score	Show le score
tackle	Show le tacle
throw-in	Show la rentrée de touche
win	Show la victoire
yellow card	Show le carton jaune

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