English-Dutch translations for football

• voetbal
  Voorzitter, voetbal is een feest. Mr President, football is a festival.
  Wat wordt er gedaan in het nationale voetbal? What is being done about national football?
  Sport houdt echt meer in dan alleen voetbal. There really is more to sport than football.
• voetballen
  Al met al is het alsof we proberen te voetballen op een veld met maar één doel. All in all it is rather like trying to play football with only one goal.
  Voorzitter, als ik een scheidsrechter nodig heb, kies ik het liefst iemand die kan voetballen. If ever I need a referee, I prefer to choose someone who can play football.
  Ik zou mij aan de Franse versie willen houden, hoewel Oostenrijk gisteren bij het voetballen van Frankrijk heeft verloren! I would like to adhere to the French version, even though Austria lost the football match against France yesterday!

Definition of football

• A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team
• Association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball. Known as soccer in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand
• American football: a game played on a field of 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory
• Canadian football: a game played on a played on a field of 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory
• Australian rules football
• Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball
• rugby union
• Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them
• The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President
• To play football

Examples

• Roman and medieval football matches were more violent than any modern type of football
• Each team scored three goals when they played football
• Each team scored two touchdowns when they played football
• They played football in the snow
• The player kicked the football
• That budget item became a political football

Related words

• footballer
• footballing
• antifootball
• football player
• football match
• football pitch
• football field
• football shoe
• football team