Football vocabulary
Across
- 3. position involves playing mostly in the middle portion of the field
- 5. take (the ball) forwards past opponents with slight touches of the feet
- 8. a kick in soccer that is executed by somersaulting backwards and moving the legs in a pedaling motion in order to strike the ball in midair
- 9. a method of restarting play
- 10. a player in soccer or field hockey whose special role is to stop the ball from entering the goa
Down
- 1. in a position where playing the ball or puck is not allowed, especially in the attacking half ahead of the ball and having fewer than two defenders nearer the goal line at the moment the ball is played
- 2. a technique that is used to control the ball using the head to pass, shoot or clear
- 4. The horizontal bar between the two upright posts of a goal in football, rugby, hockey, etc.
- 6. an unfair act by a player, deemed by the referee to contravene the game's laws, that interferes with the active play of the game
- 7. sports term that refers to a goal or run that makes the two teams' scores equal
- 8. a method of tripping a wrestling opponent by getting a foot behind the opponent's heel and pushing the body backward