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Goalkeepers can often be overlooked when talking about the best football
players, but a great goalkeeper can inspire the rest of the side to play with confidence and help
them perform better than they look on paper. this was surely the case with Lev
Yashin, quite arguably the best goalkeeper at any World Cup.
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After the World Cup qualifiers have finished and the dust has settled, languagecaster.com
returns to it's World Cup Stars series. We've already talked about Pele and Maradona, this week
it's the turn of a goalkeeper. Come along to the site at languagecaster.com to find out who we
feauture and for lots more.
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The dust from the World Cup qualifiers has settled, and this week we have Part III in our series
on the World Cup greats the Russian, Lev Yashin.
- Read our football news review in the good, the bad and the ugly
- Check out a new football expression in English for Football
- Follow the weekly predictions battle between Damon and Damian in the Predictions
competition
- For learners of English check out our Football Language Resources page with:
- Football glossary (a huge collection of football vocabulary, football cliches and football
phrases)
- Worksheets and transcripts from previous podcasts
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Well in World Cup qualifiers week it was good for Spain, England, Brazil and Paraguay who all
booked their places for the biggest football festival next year in South Africa, the World Cup.
Spain and England have 100% records so far. The Spaniards beat Estonia 3-0, while England
crushed the team that denied them a place in the Euro 2008 competition, Croatia,
5-1.
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This World Cup Stars post features possibly the greatest player of all time, Diego Maradona. To
help you understand a little better there is a vocabulary list containing the words in
bold at the foot of this post
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Pele may have won more World Cup titles, Ronaldo may have scored more goals, Lothar Matthäus
played more games but no one has dominated the World Cup as much as Diego Maradona.
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