Use this list of terms drawn from the game called soccer in the United States and European football everywhere else as a crib sheet as you watch Wold Cup coverage.
Take a deeper look at the vocabulary of European football that's making its way into the US with World Cup Vocabulary: From "Pomposity" to "Bewilderment".
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