They clap, jump, cheer, boo, bathe in the sea of tears or swim on the Laola wave. Football fans thrive on emotions that need no words. When people still talk about football, the vocabulary varies greatly from country to country. Krone+ breaks language barriers at the European Championships and shows why you should talk to English people about hairdryers, to French people about furniture and to Spanish people about cucumbers.
“What kind of tea do football players drink?” – “Penal tea.” Badumm-tsss…
Okay, maybe there are better methods than starting an international fan conversation with a (bad) joke.
There are probably plenty of options at this point. 2.7 million visitors are expected in the ten stadiums for 51 European Championship matches and in Germany alone around seven million guests in the fan zones and at public viewings. Then there is a colorful potpourri of different nations, dreams, hopes, idiosyncrasies – and languages!
With our overview you can also impress fans from different European Championship countries with sport-specific vocabulary and phrases:
Source: Krone
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