Fergie time and another 10 football phrases that you need to know

12th man

"Twelfth player" is usually called fans that actively support their team, but there is another, less popular value - it is the judge, if he is considered by fans of one team, podsuzhivaet other.

Fans are prone to all sorts of conspiracy theories. Some, for example, believe that half matches league in any contract (i.e. the outcome the agreed in advance), so groups in the social network "VKontakte" there exists enough experts who can accurately predict the outcome of the match "Manchester United" - "Liverpool". Others play for high stakes, believing that one of the teams bribed referee Champions League final.

Some reasons for this do have: periodic investigations prove that match-fixing happens in reality. For example, during the so-called Modzhigeyta (also known as Calciopoli) revealed that the Turin "Juventus" in the 2004/2005 season he bribed judges and agree that, to the right on the games need to work referees. After that, "Juventus" was disqualified and sent to the second league.

But in most cases, the words of the "twelfth player" still idle speculation. That, however, is not particularly scary: if only the fans to let off steam in words, but did not start, for example, to threaten judges in social networks that in recent years there is more and more often.

Anti-football

This term refers to the unpleasant for the fans "closed" (ie defensive) game. "Antifutbol" - this is not leading to a goal to work directly in the creation of the team, and purposeful destruction of the opponent's game.

This term is often used since the early 2000s. Initially, we said so in the first place the players and coaches, related to the Barcelona school: in the "game of antifutbol" in the middle of the zero-point of their rivals accused Frank Rijkaard and Cesc Fabregas. Recently, however, the geography of "antifutbol" expanded significantly. (!), For example, recently coach of Vietnam named because football played by their rivals - the Philippines national team (!).

Clean sheet

Goalkeeper is a match in which he did not miss a single goal, "clean sheet" (by the way, recently in Russian, too, began to say, "klinshit"). He shutout.

According to one version, the name of which means that on a piece of paper (sheet), which specifies the goals against, will be empty - clean sheet. Folk etymology, however, a more physiological, that can be said about folk etymology phrase "clean sheet" in Russian. One of the most important indicators of reliability of the goalkeeper - the total number of "clean sheets" for the season.

fergie time

The situation in which important for the outcome of the match, goal driven into stoppage time. For example, there remains a draw for the 1 to the end of regulation time: 1. It seems that the game will end, and so, but then on 95 minutes, one of the teams manages to score the winning goal. And it's Fergie time!

The expression comes from the legendary coach "Manchester United" Alex Ferguson Fergie. And it can be used as a compliment to Ferguson, who supposedly brought the players so that they did not cease to play and fight until the end, and as a condemnation. In such cases, it stresses that "Manchester United" in Ferguson reportedly pressured judges and bribed them. Therefore, in games, in which the "United" lost, the judge added more time to increase their chances of a goal.

A selection of goals, "Manchester United" in Fergie time

Goal-line technology

goal-line technology - a special technology, which shows the ball crossed the goal line completely or not. According to the rules of football goal does not count if at least some part of the ball is outside of the gate. Define it by eye is often difficult, especially if the situation developed quickly and the ball eventually flew out of the gate.

For example, here here there is a selection of situations where a player passed the ball literally "with ribbons" (ie from the goal line). BUT here are even more egregious examples: in all these cases, the goalkeeper saved the gate, but exactly know this was possible only with the help of goal-line technology.

Many football functionaries resist technological innovation, assuring that they kill "the spirit of the game." A bunch of controversy is videopovtorov system; not immediately found its way into the life and special vanishing spray, which the judge notes wall line. But the system automatically determine the goals - one of the most innocuous of new products, so it is already used practically everywhere.

Golden generation

"Golden generation" refers to a set of very good players who have turned out to be born in one country about the same time. Playing together in the national team, they should in theory be more successful simply due to the amount of talent. But the "golden generation" really say when everyone understands that a very strong team on paper for many years can not achieve great success. Then football journalists and the public as a start to ask: Is this the "golden generation" still did not win?

For example, in recent years more and more often, these words are addressed to the current team of France, Belgium and Argentina. According to one version, the first time began to say that in the beginning of zero is about a group of Portuguese players. They won the youth world championships of the early 1990s and, according to the press view, had achieved great success in the early 2000s in adult football, but never achieved. The most famous of them was Luis Figo.

Hand of God

In a narrow sense - a goal for Argentina striker Diego Maradona in the World Cup quarterfinals in 1986 against England. After the match, a football player was asked if he played up his hand. He said that the goal was scored by "the hand of God in part, in part - the head of Maradona." As it was in fact - decide.

Broadly hand of God - is the ironic name of any goal scored by his hand, which the judge, despite this scored. In football, all extremely rare reviewing the results of matches, for this to happen something extraordinary - for example, if the pitch got a UFO.

But the goal is not a hand is so rare event. So, if the referee counted it, the player can then disqualify the judge - to suspend the match, but the result of the game remain the same. A lot of fans because of that remain unhealed wounds. For example, the French striker Thierry Henry in the qualifying round of World Cup 2010 cleared the transfer arm in the match against Ireland team. The Irish still hate Henry and remember the goal at every opportunity.

Hat-trick

When a player scores three goals in the match, saying that he "made a hat-trick." According to one version, the name comes from hockey: there, if the hockey player threw three goals per game, the audience supposedly thrown on the ice caps and other headgear (hats). According to another - from cricket: according to this version, in the middle of the XIX century one of the famous cricketers he scored three points in a row, for which the admiring spectators bought him a hat.

In football, it is believed that the author of "hat-trick" has the right to pick up a ball as a souvenir. But usually the judge simply collect balls after the match and pass them to the appropriate agency. By the way, it has long been impossible to assign a ball if he came straight to you on the platform: all the balls are counted, so wait for the steward, who will come and take away his. Pro football player, who scored two goals, said that he "made a double," and if four, then "poker."

mexican wave

"Wave" - ​​a way of collective entertainment fans to the stadium. Each person in the row raises and lowers his hands (in another version - stands up and sits down) at the right time - a little later a neighbor. As a result, it seems that the platform is rolling wave.

The name "Mexican wave", probably due to the World Cup in Mexico in 1986, when about this technique support team wrote in the American newspapers. However, the way to "let the wave" appeared on the university stadium of America for at least in the 1960sThus there supporting football players.

Panenka

A special way to beat the penalty. The player runs up, clearly showing the movements of the body, in some of the corners of the gate he will beat. Goalkeeper jumping in this direction, and the player at the last moment just stop and unfolds slowly mockingly send the ball in a high arc. That is, if the goalkeeper previously did not fall, it would be easy to take the blow. "Panenka" - deliberately humiliating the opposing team, and especially for the goalkeeper way to score a penalty. It is named in honor of the Czech Antonin Panenka, who became the author of this trick in 1970. But the real heyday of "Panenka" came in the 90's and zero.

In modern football, full of testosterone, a blow came in the repertoire of many tough players, which was important to dominate the opposition's penalty area. Among them - Andrea Pirlo, Zinedine Zidane, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Sergio Ramos.

To park a bus

It means to sit on the defensive and almost the entire team to stay on their side of the field, relying only on a rare counterattack.

It is believed that this expression in English for the first time used the Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho back in 2004, citing the fact that, so they say, "they say in Portugal." Jose tried this expression to hurt their rivals - the club "Tottenham", bearing in mind that those "parked the bus" and against them has become difficult to play. And it's funny because the main "valet buses" in world football in recent years considered itself Jose.

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