Learn English Through Football

English Through Football Podcast – World Cup 1982 Brazil vs Italy: In this podcast we continue with our reviews of some of the great World Cup matches by looking at the 1982 second round Group C match between Brazil and Italy. This is another game from the #WorldCupAtHome series from FIFA.com in which we review some of the words and phrases used to describe this wonderful match, while we also go over what happened in the rest of the 1982 competition from Spain. You can listen to the podcast by clicking on the file below while you can also subscribe and listen to all our football-language podcasts. If you’d like to show your support for what we do then think about becoming a patron (through Patreon) [We no longer use Patreon (2022)]. There is a transcript for this show which may help you to improve your language skills by reading as you listen, or if you are a teacher of English you can use the transcript to make different kinds of activities for your learners. If you have any questions, suggestions or comments then please email us at: admin@languagecaster.com (Damian=DF).
Introduction
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DF: Hello again everyone, this is Damian from the languagecaster team and you are listening to the Learn English Through Football Podcast.
We hope, of course, that you are all well and safe. Now as you know, here at languagecaster.com we have been following some of the classic World Cup matches that have featured on FIFA.com’s website in their #WorldCupAtHome series. Now, we have already looked at the match between Spain and the Netherlands from the 2014 World Cup, the quarter-final between the Netherlands and Brazil from the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and the cracker between France and Brazil in the quarter-final of the 1986 World Cup. On today’s podcast we look at the 1982 World Cup second round match between Brazil and Italy which is often described as one of the greatest ever in World Cup history. At the start of the podcast we talk a little about the background of the tournament by looking at some of the context to this match: Who were the star players? What were the big controversies in the competition? Which teams were lucky or unlucky? And which sides reached the second round of matches? After this we look at some of the words and phrases used to describe the game itself before finishing up with...