English-German translations for football

• Fußball der
  Der Fußball hat zahlreiche Probleme. Football has a number of problems.
  Fußball und das Vereinigte Königreich sind Synonyme. Football is synonymous with the UK.
  Herr Präsident! Fußball ist ein Fest. Mr President, football is a festival.
• Australian Football der
• Football
  Für den CocaCola-Pokal ist aber die Football League und nicht die Premier League verantwortlich. The Coca-Cola Cup is, however, the responsibility of the Football League, not the Premier League.
  Gleichzeitig wurde The Football League darum gebeten, einen Kommentar zu dieser Antwort der UEFA abzugeben. At the same time, the Football League was called to present its comments on the response from UEFA.
• Fußballern
  Wir verbieten Profifußballern doch auch nicht, in der Woche mehr als 45 Minuten Fußball zu spielen, Herr Präsident. We would not prevent professional footballers from playing in excess of 45 minutes per week, would we?
  Demzufolge erlaubt es eine günstige Besteuerung in einigen Ländern deren Vereinen, den Fußballern wesentlich höhere Gagen zu zahlen, als sie von den Budgets anderer Vereine verkraftet werden können. Thus, in some countries taxation is advantageous, allowing their clubs to pay footballers quite a lot more than the payments that other clubs' budgets can withstand.
• zocken

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