Algeria Beats Morocco in Women's AFCON Third-Place Match
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Algeria won a football match against Morocco. The game was the third-place match of the Women's Africa Cup of Nations. This tournament is called the CAN in French. It is a big competition for women's national football teams in Africa.
The match was very exciting. In the 97th minute, a player missed a penalty. This is a special kick from close to the goal. After this, the two teams still could not decide a winner.
So the match went to penalty shootouts. This means each team takes turns to kick the ball into the goal. The team with more goals wins. Algeria won the shootout.
This means Algeria finished in third place in the tournament. Morocco finished in fourth place. Many people say the match had a crazy story because of the missed penalty and the shootout.
This was the last match for the Algerian team in this tournament. The players worked hard together to win it.
Vocabulary6 words
- third-place match
- a game to decide who finishes third in a competition
- CAN
- a big football competition for African teams; short name in French
- penalty
- a kick from close to the goal, given as a rule
- penalty shootouts
- when players take turns to kick the ball into the goal to find a winner
- third place
- the position after first and second place
- crazy
- very surprising and full of unexpected things
Quiz
Answer key
1. Algeria 2. By penalty shootout 3. True
Fill-in-the-blank listening
Play the audio again and fill in the missing words as you listen.
Algeria won a football match against _____. The game was the _____ of the Women's Africa Cup of Nations. This tournament is called the _____ in French. It is a big competition for women's national football teams in Africa.
The match was very exciting. In the 97th minute, a player missed a _____. This is a special kick from close to the goal. After this, the two teams still could not decide a winner.
So the match went to _____. This means each team takes turns to kick the ball into the goal. The team with more goals wins. Algeria won the shootout.
This means Algeria finished in _____ in the tournament. Morocco finished in fourth place. Many people say the match had a _____ story because of the missed penalty and the shootout.
This was the last match for the Algerian team in this tournament. The players worked hard together to win it.