What are some football terms?

Answer 1

Soccer, or Association Football, is a game with a lot of history, and as such, quite a vocabulary unto its own. Here are a few examples.

Parts of the Field

"the 18" - A nickname for the Penalty Area, or the lines that delimit it

"the 6" - A nickname for the Goal Area, or the lines that delimit it

"the D" - A nickname for the Penalty Arc, or the area inside it

"the spot" - A nickname for the Penalty Mark

"the mark" - Another name for the Penalty Mark

"mouth" - The entrance to the goal, formed by the goal posts and cross bar

"stanchion" - The apparatus that supports the netting up and away from the mouth, so as not to impede or endanger the keeper or other players

"corner" - Sometimes used to refer to the area formed by the corner of the field and the corner arc, but properly just refers to the actual joining of the touch and goal lines; also, the corner kick restart

Players and Team Officials

"keeper" - The goalkeeper

"captain" - The (often de facto) leader of a team, who is also a player; the captain usually calls the coin toss and represents his teammates when speaking with a match official

"striker" - A player whose primary duty is to score goals

"winger" - A player whose primary duty is to set up plays for strikers

"midfielder" - A player whose primary duty is to keep the ball in the offensive half of the field for the wingers and strikers

"defender" - A player whose primary duty is to prevent the other team from organizing a play, and hopefully getting the ball to the midfielders

"sweeper" - A player whose primary duty is to assist the goalkeeper by clearing the ball at all costs

"sub" - Another name for a substitute

"coach" - The person who primarily trains and guides players in strategy and tactics

"manager" - Usually, a person who handles technical aspects such as substitutions, statistics, supplies, and satiety (glorified water-boy)

"physio" - Refers to the team's doctor or physical trainer, tasked with both preventing and treating injuries

Other People on or around the Field

"ball boy/girl" - A person, usually employed by the home club, who helps keep the flow of the game by providing replacements for balls that have been kicked far off the field

"outside agent" - Any person who is not an official, player, substitute, or substituted player

Match Officials and Officiating

"ref" - The referee, sometimes any member of the officiating crew

"blue" - Any member of the officiating crew

"CR" - The referee ("Center Ref")

"AR" - An Assistant Referee

"linesman" - Properly, a club volunteer helping out when there is a missing AR, but is sometimes used to refer to a proper AR as well

"flag" - May refer to the corner flags, the optional halfway flags, an AR's flag, or to the AR who is holding a flag

"4th" - The 4th Official

"AAR" - An Additional Assistant Referee, used in some parts of the world to assist the Referee with goal line and goal area calls

"RAR" - Reserve Assistant Referee, a standby official who is qualified to replace an injured AR

"book(ing/ed)" - Cautioned and shown the yellow card

"retire(d)" - Sent off and shown the red card

"stoppage" - The additional time a referee may add to the end of any timed period of play in order to account for substitutions, injuries, and other unduly-long periods of time when the ball is out of play; in professional games, there is always stoppage

Plays, Penalties, and Miscellany

"play the whistle" - A directive that players should always continue to play until the referee stops play with his whistle, unless the ball has obviously left play out of bounds; not all injuries or rule infractions on the field will automatically cause the referee to stop play

"jump ball" - Borrowed from Basketball, refers to a dropped ball, during which none of the players contesting for the ball will typically jump (the ball is in play as soon as it touches the ground)

"comeback" - The fact of winning a match when the winner had been behind in goals at halftime

"over the line" - Offside

"freebie" - A direct or indirect free kick

"hat trick" - Three goals scored by a single player in the same game

"dive" - The act of "simulation": intended deception against the ref(s) by exaggerating the seriousness or existence of a foul or misconduct

"professional foul" - The act of intentionally committing a foul so as to prevent a goal-scoring opportunity

"steal" - The act of gaining possession of the ball when it was clearly in an opponent's possession, particularly by a clever maneuver, but usually not by intercepting a pass or long ball

"encroach" - To fail to respect the proper distance from the ball or other position as required by the Laws for certain restarts

"shield" - The use one's own body to prevent an opponent from playing the ball

"pull" - To use the bottom of the foot to "pull" the ball backward, instead of kicking it

"volley" - To play the ball high into the air, often several times in succession

"shot" - An attempt to score a goal that has a reasonable chance of success

"save" - The act of a goalkeeper blocking or catching a promising shot

"parry" - Use of the keeper's arms or hands to deflect, rather than play, the ball; important because it does not count as keeper's possession or play, but it does qualify as a touch

"fake" - To use one's body or head to confuse a defender as to one's planned route of movement (or that of the ball)

"statue" - To stand very near to a dead ball to force the referee to enforce the required distance, as well as a ceremonial restart; not legal and may result in getting booked, but is often done to give the statue's teammates a chance to sort out their field positions

"header" - To use one's head to play the ball, especially in a goal-scoring play

"short" - A team must play with fewer than 11 players on the field if any have been sent off, or were given permission to leave the field of play to tend to an injury or kit problem

"kit" - The required equipment of all players: shirt with sleeves, shorts, socks, shoes, and shin guards

"boot" - A player's shoe, often with cleats or deep treads and specifically engineered for the sport

"nil" - Traditionally used to denote a score of zero goals, such as "the white team is up 2 - nil"

"southpaw" - Borrowed from Baseball, refers to a player who kicks primarily or more skillfully with the left foot

"hack" - The act of clipping or tripping a player from behind

"hand-ball" - A very inaccurate term for the foul of deliberately handling the ball

"pass-back" - A slightly less-inaccurate term for the act of a keeper handling the ball after it has been deliberately kicked to him/her by a teammate

"double-touch" - The act of playing/touching the ball by the same person who put it into play (throw-in, goal kick, etc.) before another player has touched it; also, the act of a goalkeeper handling the ball after having released it from his/her possession and before another player has touched it

"home-and-away" - The aggregate score of two or more matches played between the same pair of teams at each other's home fields; also, the tie-breaking method calculated in that way

This list is not all-inclusive. While it is indeed very long, there are many more terms that are used less-frequently, or only in certain countries or within certain teams or clubs.

Answer 2

The flea flicker, boys this is America's sport, go long

Answer 3

Pitch = field

touch = sideline