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This week’s football language podcast looks back at the 2023 African Nations Cup tournament in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) and we’ll be looking at the phrase ‘Zombie Football‘. And don’t forget that you can also check out our glossary of footballing phrases here and visit our site to access all our previous posts and podcasts. If you have any suggestions or questions then you can contact us at admin@languagecaster.com.

 



Learn English Through Football Podcast: Zombie Football

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DF: Hello again everyone and welcome to Languagecaster.com – the football-language podcast for learners and teachers of English. My name is Damian and I am here in a other wet and cold London and of course the other member of the Languagecaster team is Damon who is based in Tokyo in Japan. I hope you are all well and enjoying lots of football.

Now recently I watched the final of the 2023 AFCON where host nation Côte d’Ivoire won their third African title – and  congratulations to them. In the final, they came back after going a goal down in the first half against Nigeria but they staged a second half comeback to win the title 2-1 – a remarkable turnaround as they had looked ‘dead’ in the group stages after being beaten twice – they came back from the dead to win the tournament. And so on this football-language podcast we are going to take a look at a phrase that was used to describe the Côte d’Ivoire victory in the AFCON – Zombie Football.

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