{"id":10120,"date":"2014-06-19T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=10120"},"modified":"2014-06-19T07:41:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T11:41:09","slug":"chinese-soccer-vocabulary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/chinese-soccer-vocabulary\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Talk Sports – Chinese Soccer Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unless you’ve been living under a rock recently, you know that the biggest event in world sports is going on right now – the World Cup<\/strong> (\u4e16\u754c\u676f – s<\/span>h\u00ec ji\u00e8 b\u0113i). In America, we call it soccer, but the rest of the world knows this sport as football<\/strong> (\u8db3\u7403 – z\u00fa qi\u00fa). In case you were wondering, in Chinese, the kind of football that’s popular in the USA is actually called “American style rugby<\/strong>” (\u7f8e\u5f0f\u6a44\u6984\u7403 – m\u011bi sh\u00ec g\u01cen l\u01cen qi\u00fa). This year, the World Cup is going on in one of the biggest countries in the world for football – Brazil<\/strong> (\u5df4\u897f – b\u0101 x\u012b). Although the Chinese team did not make the cut (again), football is still wildly popular in China, and World Cup matches will be watched all over the country. This great article<\/a> from Time talks about the woes of Chinese football, in case you’re interested.<\/p>\n