🇪🇸 Spanish Vocabulary — 04 Jul 2026

"The touch to control the ball was prosaically sublime, everyday brilliant, just another one of the Messi things."

"It felt like a moment of double take, a glitch in the show reel."

"before the release of that final whistle, Martínez into another in extremis at his near post,"

"the familiar devotional celebrations."

"Underlying much of this is a barrier which women often encounter, but that has no real equivalent for men: family disapproval."

"However, the biggest responsibility confronting him will be to lead and defend Iran in an existential battle, with the US-Israeli combine pounding his country relentlessly."

"The camera on the tripod was working, but the man was nowhere in sight."

"the huge shallow stands filled with the devotional hordes, the sense of event glamour crackling around the pale blue Miami dusk."

"whose career has been a meander through the margins of professional football, who plays for love and small change in this company."

"the Cape Verde players who held the attention in that moment, walking a little disconsolately about at one end, still ready to run, ready to play, but eliminated from this World Cup at the end of its most wonderfully dramatic game."

"the Miami Stadium is another massive throbbing concrete campus, with a craning tubular semi-roof, and an endless acreage of baking tarmac on all sides that was thronged for hours before kick-off with the strolling ceremonial march of the blue and white shirts."

"the Miami Stadium is another massive throbbing concrete campus, with a craning tubular semi-roof, and an endless acreage of baking tarmac on all sides that was thronged for hours before kick-off with the strolling ceremonial march of the blue and white shirts."

"Messi was on the field for 120 minutes in thick, sapping humidity, and had his least influential game of the tournament overall."

"to take him clear of the retreating defence, to the grand old amphetamine crazed mouse days of his youth,"

"the ball seeming to hang in the damp Florida air, a perfect white orb, following that delicious parabola into the far corner."

"In a way they are this World Cup, a place of shifting tides, mobility and postcolonial realignment."

"epic subplots and violent tonal contrasts, from the Messi-Vozinha double header, to the elite cinematic brilliance of Cape Verde’s second equalising goal deep into extra time."