Football is a sport, but also a language.
All you have to do is listen in a stadium or a bar on a match night: there blooms a tasty jargon of creativity.
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When a goalkeeper makes a mistake, for example, he
wears "peach skin gloves"
, that is to say he lets the goals go too easily in the cage. When a player scores brilliantly, he
"makes the nets cry"
, no more and no less. The bad player, booed by the furious bleachers, is called, in football parlance, a
"bourrette"
. The word corresponds, in the dictionary, to a
"coarse silk which surrounds the cotton"
, a
"waste of natural silk"
, informs the CNRTL. This poor player is also wearing the nicknames
"knitter"
or
"bench shine"
.
On the occasion of the presentation of the Ballon d'Or, which rewards the best footballer in France of the year, test your knowledge of these words and formulas that make football.
Will you be the best player?