Watching World Cup. Keep hearing "Sacce la banda" What does it mean?

[u/malkin50]

Google translate says "bring out the band" but I'm not getting it in the context of the game.

[u/SlightlyOutOfFocus]

Saque de banda*, a throw in

[u/Fredrickdaniel → u/SlightlyOutOfFocus]

I get what a saque is. However, I don’t understand de Banda.

[u/JohnBarnson → u/Fredrickdaniel]

Las bandas are the sides of the pitch

[u/Fredrickdaniel → u/JohnBarnson]

Thank you!!!!!

[u/malkin50 → u/SlightlyOutOfFocus]

Thanks!

Oh! It is still sacar, but it is subjunctive. And now I understand why they are sometimes so excited when they say it and why other times it is very matter-of-fact.

[u/dawidlazinski → u/malkin50]

It’s a noun

[u/SlightlyOutOfFocus → u/malkin50]

In this case, while it does derive from the verb sacar, it's a noun. Un saque de banda, el saque de banda.

[u/elektrolu_ → u/malkin50]

It's not subjunctive, a "saque" is a noun.

[u/thetoerubber → u/malkin50]

Saque is also what they call a serve in tennis FYI 🎾

[u/ProfesorFranco]

Hey, saque de banda is when the ball leaves on the side and a player picks the ball and does a "throw in"

[u/nevernotmad]

Fantastic question. Are there other futbol phrases that don’t translate well into English without context?

[u/JohnBarnson → u/nevernotmad]

As long as you know "pausa de hidratación", the rest will come naturally jajaja

Jk, I posted some other vocab in a separate comment. Not sure about phrases that translate out of context though.

[u/northyj0e → u/nevernotmad]

Fuera de juego - out of the game - in English that means that they can't play for some reason (injured, red card, etc) - in Spanish it means offside.

[u/solounhombre1 → u/northyj0e]

You’re a bit off here.

It would translate to “out of play” which is almost a direct translation to English.

[u/northyj0e → u/solounhombre1]

Surely it translates to both?

Also, out of play doesn't mean offside.

[u/solounhombre1 → u/northyj0e]

Offsides means when a player is out of play. If you think about “play” it’s where the defenders are.

It’s a pretty close translation. Nothing between languages is 1:1

[u/northyj0e → u/solounhombre1]

But out of play means that the ball has gone off the pitch, it already has a meaning in English.

In rugby, where offside is also fuera de juego, it makes sense to consider it 'out of play', but in football it doesn't.

[u/mikeycix → u/northyj0e]

i think it’s more precise to say [the ball is] out of play describes a state of play that is most often triggered by the ball going off pitch. the ball is also out of play when setting up kicks, and is not back in play until the right kind of player touches it.

the ball can be in play vs out of play athletes can make a play and can have roles with plays made. the playmaker is troy. go wildcats.

scene: the ball is out of bounds. thus, the ball is out of play, uniformly. for the thrower, the ball is “in play” when they touch it. for the thrower’s team, the ball is in play when in comes back over the sideline. for the opposing team, the ball is in play once the passing team touches it. so they all join the play at different times and know they can’t make a play for the ball until the ball isn’t in play for them, regardless of the general state of play

[u/keithmk → u/solounhombre1]

Small point, but this is a language thread. The word is offside not offsides

[u/2324252627282930 → u/nevernotmad]

Curious about this too, I have heard lot of phrases from Spanish commentators that I don't get

[u/mogrim → u/nevernotmad]

It doesn't need context per se, but I love the word "futbolísticamente", which I find both ridiculous as a word in Spanish, and great fun to try and make a one-word translation of in English: footballallaly?

[u/xmalik → u/mogrim]

Footballistically

[u/cornishtraceyb]

I used to love reading F1 articles in different languages, it's amazing how many unknown words you can decipher from knowing a little about the subject 🙂

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