#62 Commentator terminology explainer: Zone 14, half turn, sixes and sevens, under the cosh, and many more!
Soccer 101
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4.9 • 853 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode, Taylor breaks down two different senteces that are each chock full of soccer phrases and terms that are commonly used but not always commonly understood.
Terms discussed/explained in this one:
- The zones on the pitch (specifically Zone 14)
- Parking the bus
- Down the channels
- Overlapping run
- Inverted winger
- The Mixer
- Half turn
- Sixes and sevens
- Professional foul vs Cynical foul - When to use which
- Under the cosh
- Unplayable
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome everybody to Soccer 101. |
| 0:13.5 | My name is Taylor Rockwell, and on this week's episode, we're going to be taking a look at commentator terminology. |
| 0:19.4 | That's how I'm phrasing it. |
| 0:22.4 | Basically, we've got a threatening summer gauntlet of soccer ahead of us, and it can be sort of impenetrable at times, especially |
| 0:28.0 | if you're new to the game. But even if you're a crafty veteran, when you've got the |
| 0:31.6 | Euros, when you've got Cop America, when you've got the Gold Cup, then the Olympics, we had the |
| 0:35.3 | Nations League. There's tons of soccer going on with lots of different presenters saying lots of different things. And a lot of those things |
| 0:42.7 | are reliant on terminology or shorthand turns of phrase that, again, if you aren't as familiar |
| 0:47.9 | with them, if you aren't culturally steeped in some of the usages, then maybe they don't make |
| 0:53.2 | as much sense and make it harder to |
| 0:54.6 | understand what's happening. So my thinking was that with the summer we've got coming up, |
| 0:59.6 | if you want to be prepared, but maybe you're not quite sure what some of the kind of more |
| 1:03.1 | common words and phrases might be, then we're going to take a look. I asked Twitter. I got |
| 1:08.8 | some suggestions. I've put them into two different sentences that |
| 1:12.9 | we're going to break down. So I'll read the sentence. Then we'll take it piece by piece. Here is the |
| 1:17.4 | first sentence. Manchester United was not able to get much going in Zone 14, mostly because |
| 1:23.9 | West Ham's defense parked the bus. So United were forced to attack down the channels, |
| 1:28.6 | using overlapping runs instead of inverted wingers, and then sent crosses into the mixer. |
| 1:33.5 | All right, we've got our sentence. Let's take it piece by piece, starting with Zone 14. |
| 1:38.5 | We had a lot of questions about this, and we should note there are actually 18 zones. |
| 1:42.9 | It's just Zone 14 that tends to be the one that we talk about. If we take a normal football pitch, I'm going to ask you to change your perspective at various points in this one. But if you take a normal pitch, you're standing in one goal facing the other. So you've got the whole field ahead of you vertically. That's how we're talking about it vertically. If you imagine basically it being divided into left, center, and right, so we've got |
| 2:03.6 | three divisions on the field. |
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