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You're listening to the Footglitch Podcast. Love football, learn English.

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Hello and welcome to the Footglitch Podcast. This is a brand new podcast about football

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and English. And in this episode zero, I would like to introduce myself to you and also the

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concept of this show. So first of all, my name is Zdenek and my full name is Zdenek

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Lukas and I'm from the Czech Republic. Some people call it Czechia these days as well.

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So Czechia or Czech Republic. And I used to play football, not at a very professional

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level, but I really enjoyed it a lot. Now, I'm also an English teacher, a professional

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one. I have a master's degree in English teaching and I have taught English in four different

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countries, including the United Kingdom and recently also Vietnam. My favorite way to

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teach my students is through a conversation about football. I believe that if you share

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your passion with someone, you can make great connections and as a result, you learn much

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faster than you would normally learn in the traditional way with a textbook or, you know,

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with a lot of grammatical exercises. So let's say this is kind of my way. And I've always

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toyed with the idea of tying or uniting English and football, connecting these two subjects,

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English and football. You know, for example, my master's thesis, which I wrote at university

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in my final year, is about analyzing the language of English football commentators. So as you

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can see, I've always been kind of crazy about trying to connect English and football. So

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I thought since now I have about four clients, one to one students with whom I speak English

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about football, only that that's all we do in our lessons. And I have to say, these are

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my favorite lessons. I thought I might as well just start a new podcast. This is not

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my first podcast, by the way, I also have Zdenek's English podcast, which is another

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English podcast. So I thought, OK, let's start something new. Let's see how it goes. So hopefully

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it will go well and you like it. And the plan on this podcast is to talk about football,

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of course. Now that is the Czech national team, Czech football, but also the Premier

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League, which is my favorite league at the moment. I could also occasionally talk about

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other leagues as well, European leagues mainly. And I'm planning to have episodes in which

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I have some guests on as well. And these could be football fans, people from the football

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field, let's say of different teams. It could be international teams. It could be club football,

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anything really. I think this this podcast will have a lot of flexibility in terms of

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what I can do on it. But the idea is I'll be talking about football so you can if you

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are an English learner, you can develop your listening skills. Right. And hopefully this

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will help you with your confidence, with your vocabulary as well, and ultimately your fluency

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too. Also, because I'm a teacher, you see, I can't just have a chat about football or

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just interview someone without trying to teach something. Right. I'm a teacher. I'm an English

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teacher. So I might as well attempt to teach some things too. Mostly it's going to be vocabulary,

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whether it's words, fixed phrases, idioms, a lot of different things. It could be football

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related stuff, but also something people can use outside football. So even if you're not

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interested in football, you may actually learn something useful here. Hopefully that is the

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idea anyway. And when I have more listeners, because obviously this is a new podcast, so

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I'm going to start with five, ten listeners, mostly my friends or people who listen to

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my other podcast. So when I do have more listeners, I will start publishing extra podcasts for

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subscribers. So basically people who decide to support me and this podcast and they get

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extra episodes in return. And in these episodes, I would or I will teach vocabulary, grammar,

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pronunciation, anything that I find interesting and useful. So since this is the first episode,

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episode zero, the pilot episode, I might as well show you what I can do. So let's keep

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it simple, though. Let's talk about football. As you know, football is the sport, right?

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Everybody knows that. But it can also be the ball, the actual ball. Yes, that's right.

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You refer to the ball as football in English. So that's something a lot of people don't

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realize just like a volleyball would be a ball that is used for volleyball, right? Yeah,

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it makes sense. So obviously in the USA and possibly in some other countries too, they

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don't call it football because you see they have American football. That's why they came

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up with another word for it soccer. So it's possible that some of you listening to this

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use that term more than football. European people mostly are going to use the word football.

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That's for sure, especially in the UK. Nobody's going to say soccer. They're actually going

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to laugh at that word. So I'm basically showing you another way you can say the word

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football. You can say soccer. But then there is a short version of football. It's like

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kind of a slang term that people in the UK use sometimes. And that's footy. Just footy.

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I'm going to watch some footy this weekend. Or what are you up to? Well, just some footy

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and stuff. Yeah, footy. And then you've got words that you have got some expressions like

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a kickabout, for example. A kickabout is just not such a serious match. It's just you go

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with a couple of friends outside, maybe build your goals from bags or anything available

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basically. And you play on grass anywhere. Sometimes it's not even grass. And it's called

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a kickabout. Sometimes you don't even have even sides, maybe five against four, something

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like that. It's just not a serious match. You just play with friends. And then when

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it gets dark, wrap it up. And then of course there are some other expressions like five

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aside, six aside, which means you've got some matches where on each side there are five

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players. And six aside would be six players. Obviously the football as we know it, it's

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going to be 11 aside, right? 11 players, including a goalkeeper on each side. Sometimes there

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is a referee as well, obviously, when it's professionally done. And when it's at the

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top level, you also have VAR, video assistant referee. So we're definitely going to talk

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about this topic on this podcast in the future. Okay, so that's pretty much all I wanted to

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talk about today. I wanted to introduce myself. I wanted to tell you about this podcast. And

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I wanted to kind of show you how I may teach on this podcast. So hopefully you liked it.

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If you did, please make sure you share this with your friends. It's absolutely crucial

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for the success of this podcast and for my motivation as well indeed. Because if I see

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people respond positively, if there is positive feedback, then I'm going to keep producing

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more and more episodes because I see there is demand for it. Okay, we will see what happens,

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but I'm going to speak to you soon. Until next time. Bye.