English-Italian translations for football

calcioIl calcio è afflitto da numerosi problemi. Football has a number of problems. Sicurezza in occasione delle partite di calcio (votazione) Security at football matches (vote) Nel calcio, l'Europa è una superpotenza. In football, Europe is a superpower.
pallaNon si dovrebbe permettere che gli aiuti internazionali allo sviluppo diventino una palla da gioco in mano ai giocatori finanziari globali. International development aid should not be allowed to become a football for global financial players.

palla da calcio
palloneArriva l’arbitro, cammina fino a centrocampo e colloca ai piedi di Wayne Rooney un pallone da invece che da calcio. On comes the referee, he walks to the centre spot and he places at the feet of Wayne Rooney not a football, but a rugby ball. Per ricorrere a un metafora calcistica, Felipe González avrebbe sicuramente messo in rete questo pallone.To use a footballing expression, Felipe González would certainly have scored with this ball. Non dimentichiamo che nel calcio molti sono i chiamati ma pochi gli eletti e che non tutti i giocatori diventeranno vedettes del pallone. Let us not forget that, in football, many are called but few are chosen, and not every player is destined to be a football star.
pallone da calcioIn questo modo, potremo essere certi che i bambini toccheranno un pallone da calcio unicamente per giocarci e per divertirsi. In this way, we can be certain that, in future, children only touch a football to play and to have fun with.

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

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

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