The glossary contains the words people can use while playing or watching football.
Academy
noun
A football academy is a facility set up to develop young footballers. It's most often thought of as a training school to teach young players how to play football, to meet the club's specific standard.
Example: All of his three sons are members of Manchester united football academy .
Added time
noun
Extra time added to the end of a half to make up for the time spent dealing with injuries, substitutions, etc.
Example: The opener was clocked two minutes into added time at the end of the first half. The board shows four minutes of added time.
Ball boy
noun
A boy who retrieves balls that go out of play during a game such as tennis or football.
Example: I was a ball boy when he used to play for Tottenham Hotspur.
Behind closed doors
phrase
To describe matches played where spectators are not allowed in the stadium to watch.
Example: Last year every football game was played behind closed doors due to corona virus.
Booking
noun
Act of noting the offender in a cautionable offence, which results in a yellow card.
Example: Twenty four players have been booked for fouling Traore already this season.
Box
noun
See Penalty area.
Example: The foul was in the box.
Box-to-box
noun
Players with the ability to influence the game both defensively and offensively or, more generally, at both ends of the pitch.
Example: During his career, he usually played as a box-to-box midfielder, although late in his career he played as a sweeper.
Brace
verb
When a player scores two goals in a single match.
Example: The player did a superb second-half brace.
Cap
verb
Appearance of a player for a national team. Originates from the traditional presentation of a cap to British players who made international appearances.
Example: He already has 15 caps for his country.
Clean sheet
noun
An instance of conceding no goals or points in a match or competition.
Example: Leicester will struggle to match the 15 clean sheets they recorded last term.
Clearance
noun
When a player kicks the ball away from the goal they are defending.
Example: He made an extraordinary clearance in order to not concede the goal.
Dead ball
noun
Situation when the game is restarted with the ball stationary, such as a free kick.
Example: The mutterings ceased when the ball split the posts and landed over the dead-ball line.
Diving
noun
Diving is an attempt by a player to gain an unfair advantage by falling to the ground and, often, feigning injury to give the impression that a foul has been committed.
Example: He received a yellow card for diving.
Extra time
noun
Additional period, normally two halves of 15 minutes, used to determine the winner in some tied cup matches.
Example: The match went into extra time.
Free kick
noun
The result of a foul outside the penalty area, given against the offending team. Free kicks can be either direct (shot straight towards the goal) or indirect (the ball must touch another player before a goal can be scored).
Example: He is a set-piece specialist and regularly takes charge of corner and free kick duties for his team.
Golden goal
noun
The first goal scored during a period of extra time in a football game, which ends the game and means that the team who scored it wins.
Example: The main criticism of golden goal is the quickness of ending the game, and the pressure on coaches and players.
Interception
noun
The action of stopping and catching something or someone before that thing or person is able to reach a particular place.
Example: Leicester player N’Golo Kanté has made more interceptions than any other player in this season’s Premier League season.
Loan
noun
When a player temporarily plays for a club other than the one they are currently contracted to. Such a loan may last from a few weeks to one or more seasons. This often occurs with young players who are commonly loaned to lower league clubs in order to gain valuable experience.
Example: He went on a loan to second division club to play more games this season.
Nutmeg
verb
When a player intentionally plays the ball between an opponent's legs, runs past the opponent, and collects their own pass.
Example: But in the next 15 minutes he nutmegged me three or four times. He was all laughs as he was nutmegged.
Offside
adverb
Relating to the positioning of defending players in relation to attacking players when the ball is played to an attacking player by a teammate. In its most basic form, a player is offside if they are in their opponent's half of the field, and is closer to the goal line than both the second-last defender and the ball at the moment is played to them by a teammate.
Example: The goal was disallowed because she was offside.