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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Hey!
Ah, that was naughty.
What are you watching right now?
What? Sorry?
What are you watching right now?
Oh, I'm watching the football game.
It's the Champions League.
Because I came in your room today with the...
I thought it was like a radio.
Oh really?
Yeah.
And I hear this cheering in the announcement seats.
I came in and you were playing this football.
Yes. I don't play football. I watch football.
Right, you were...
They are playing.
Right. You're watching football on screen.
Yes.
And what is this?
This is the Champions League quarter final game.
The first leg.
First leg.
Yeah.
Actually there's a first leg and second leg in the quarter final.
So they go like... if we were teams, the first leg will be held in your city.
Okay.
And the second leg will be held in my city.
So they're going to fight twice.
Yes.
Okay.
And what a great turn.
Look at...
Yeah, that's what I do.
Actually I woke up at 3 in the morning today.
3 in the morning?
Fuck.
It was two games today.
Yeah.
So I watched the first one live and now I'm watching the second one.
Ah, okay, okay.
Yeah.
So this is Manchester City versus what?
Bolshev Dolmen.
Bolshev Dolmen.
Yes.
Okay.
From Germany.
Okay.
How big is the game?
What do you mean how?
Is this like super big?
It is.
It's like super big.
Wimbledon in tennis kind of position?
Yeah.
It's that big.
It's Wimbledon in tennis.
It's World Series for baseball.
It's Olympic for ping pong maybe.
It's the biggest competition.
Nice.
Like this, you know, World Cup and Champions League.
The two biggest competition in football world.
And how far is this tournament?
How far?
What do you mean how far?
Like how many more they have to win in order to be the champion?
Because it's now quarter final.
So they have to win this quarter final and semi final and the final.
Quarter final.
Okay.
So we got three more.
I mean three more tournaments.
But the match will be like one, two, three, four, five.
Okay.
Because first leg and second leg on quarter final and first leg and second leg in semi final.
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And the final is just one match.
There's five more games.
Gotcha.
So who do you, who's your favorite member?
Member?
The player you mean?
The player.
Kevin.
Kevin what?
Kevin De Bruyne.
Thank you.
I mean it's not you Kevin.
There's a player called Kevin De Bruyne.
De Bruyne?
De Bruyne.
Fine.
De Bruyne.
De Bruyne.
Okay.
It's from Belgium so it's a little bit Frenchy.
What about him?
He's a great player.
He just scored and he's the midfielder.
Do you know what it is?
Midfielder.
He positions in the middle.
Somewhere in the middle right?
Yes somewhere in the middle.
Right.
He goes to the, just in front of the goal and also just in front of their own goal.
And run everywhere.
And what he does is control the game actually.
Okay.
He has to distribute all the passes and make your team move as they have to be moved.
Okay.
Okay.
You know according to all the tactics.
And someone like the coach, head coach on the ground, in the ground.
So he manages all the team and controls the whole game.
Is he the captain?
Not today I think.
Oh yes he is.
He is the captain.
Yeah.
And also the coach of Manchester City is Pep Guardiola.
I don't know how to pronounce it.
Okay.
He's my favorite coach actually.
What about him?
He's a really kind guy.
That's nice.
He is a really kind guy.
Okay.
And he speaks so many languages and he's really really good at making tactics and beat, you
know, beat teams in the competition.
He's a really good manager.
Right.
When you look at a game like this, what are you fascinated by?
Like the, for example, the individual techniques or the team plays and the strategies or is
there any other thing that you're looking at that fascinates you?
Well the technique, the skills, techniques, the personal techniques and skills and whole
tactics, the teamwork, and yeah basically that's all.
Okay.
If there were, you know, the crowds.
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Crowds?
Crowds, I mean the fans.
Okay okay okay.
There's not any fans in today's game but if there were, the fans, looking at fans are
really fun too.
Like hearing the cheering and...
They're aggressive, right?
Yeah, sound, boost, all the teams.
Look at this, he's the captain.
Oh there you go.
Yeah.
The one with the yellow patch on his arm.
Yeah, that means captain.
Okay.
Yeah.
Who's your favorite team then?
Out of all the...
Liverpool.
Liverpool?
P.K.
Okay, describe to me what happened for the audience.
Okay.
Free kick.
A little distanced free kick given to Manchester City and...
And what's happening right now?
Let the audience understand what's going on here.
Okay.
Look at that.
After the free kick, the ball went into the penalty area and the defender has to clear
the ball out and try to kick the ball so that he put his legs a little higher and there's
one player, there's one Manchester City player trying to get the ball by his head.
Okay.
So that there's one ball trying to, heading the ball by head and there's one leg which
is high and it was a dangerous play.
Right, right, right.
So he decided to be as a foul.
Okay.
So and it was all in the penalty box so the...
What?
Arbitral, you say?
How do you say?
Shimpan?
Arbitral?
Referee?
Referee, yeah.
Referee gave a penalty kick for Manchester City.
Okay.
So the referee has to make sure by seeing VAR, the video assistant, if his judgement was
really right or not.
Okay, okay, okay.
So he's looking at it right now.
Yeah, yeah.
And to me it doesn't look like it actually hit him.
Does it?
No, I don't think it...
It's a fake play.
I mean...
He faked it.
Yeah.
To try to get the penalty kick.
But actually...
But it hit his leg though.
Yeah, yeah.
But actually putting his legs high like that...
That itself is dangerous.
It's already a dangerous play so it could be a penalty.
But I don't think that's dangerous enough.
It was just like that high.
Okay.
Just that high and it didn't touch at all.
So...
It looked like...
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This might be turned.
Not a penalty.
But it looked like it hit his leg though.
When the yellow guy pulled it up.
It hit the other guy's leg.
Is that dangerous?
Is that bad?
What do you mean?
Is that a penalty kind of act?
For...
When it hits the leg.
The other guy's leg.
The guy behind him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's a penalty.
Of course, of course.
Got it.
But maybe this is gonna be...
What happened now?
Oh, he's calling the two guys.
Oh, no foul.
No foul.
Okay.
Because it didn't touch at all.
And, you know, the legs wasn't that high level.
So...
What was the yellow guy saying?
What?
What's he...
What is the yellow guy?
Why is he not satisfied?
He should be happy that the foul was cancelled, right?
Yeah, but he was saying from the beginning that this wasn't a foul at all.
So he is claiming that the blue guy should be punished because of his...
Fake.
Fake behavior.
So he...
He, you know...
The yellow guy is saying that blue guy should get a yellow card.
Okay.
Because of that behavior.
So that's why he's not happy.
But...
But the referee saw in the VAR that the blue guy actually kind of faked the whole thing, right?
Why did he not get the yellow card after the referee knowing that it was fake?
Well, because it wasn't that heavy fake actually.
You know, it was just...
You know...
It was kind of dangerous.
Okay.
Obviously.
Obviously.
So he had to avoid his leg like this.
And, you know...
It was fake though.
It wasn't that bad fake.
Got it.
So...
Okay.
It wasn't that extreme level.
Got it.
It was just...
You know...
It wasn't that bad fake.
If the blue guy was like screaming in agony, then the referee would be like, "Okay, you're overreacting."
Yeah.
And also if the blue guy like claimed to the referee that the yellow guy's leg kicked me,
and this is the...
The kizu, and look at this, and look at this, and say things like that, then the referee will punish him.
But it was just, you know...
In a movement really fast.
So if someone looked like that, you would be surprised a little bit.
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So it's not that bad.
How would you interpret after when he fell down on the floor?
After he fell down, he was like holding his head.
Yeah.
Actually.
Looking like his head was in pain.
Yeah.
Which should not have happened because it didn't really touch it.
Yeah.
The ball touched it.
The ball touched it.
The ball touched it.
But you know, it was fake though.
It was fake.
Yeah, right.
Fake was there.
So it wasn't, you know, great.
But the degree of fakeness was at an acceptable level.
It happens in hood boy.
Right, right.
I see that a lot actually.
Yeah, right.
Like rolling around the ground.
Right.
Looking like you're in pain.
Exactly.
You stood up and go to play.
So, you know.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's right there.
It wasn't that...
I mean...
It was very like high motion, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that was...
But actually he tries to make it dramatic.
As if...
Yeah.
Like...
He slid himself in the crowd.
He just cannot slip and keep it.
Right, right, right.
But tried to get the foul.
He was hoping for someone to hit his head.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh my god.
Who died?
Yeah.
This just happened in hood boy.
What's the dirty side of hood boy?
Football culture.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh.
Let me show you a little...
Is that time maybe?
Yeah.
Okay.
You show me in the next episode.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, we'll talk about this. Thanks for listening guys
Bye bye.
