Ancelotti May Use Raphinha as Brazil's Center-Forward
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Carlo Ancelotti is the coach of the Brazil football team.
He is thinking about a new plan for the team.
The plan is to use Raphinha as a center-forward.
Raphinha normally plays as a winger.
At his club Barcelona, Raphinha sometimes plays as a center-forward too.
Ancelotti wants to try the same idea with Brazil.
This news comes with other football stories.
A young player named Breno Bidon got a surprise call-up to Brazil's team.
He plays for the club Corinthians.
Bidon said he learned a lot from teammate Bruno Guimarães.
Also, an Australian player scored an amazing free-kick goal against Brazil.
Many fans talked about the great goal online.
Vocabulary15 words
- coach
- a person who trains a sports team
- center-forward
- a player who plays in the middle, near the goal, to score
- winger
- a player who plays on the side of the field
- call-up
- when a player is chosen to join a national team
- teammate
- a person who plays on the same team as you
- free-kick
- a kick given after a foul, with no other players near the ball
- national team
- a sports team that represents a country
- goal
- when the ball goes into the net and a point is scored
- plan
- an idea about what to do
- club
- a sports team that plays in a league
- fans
- people who like and support a team or player
- surprise
- something you did not expect
- young
- not old; new to something
- amazing
- very impressive; very good
- idea
- a thought or plan
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1. Carlo Ancelotti 2. Barcelona 3. Corinthians
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Carlo Ancelotti is the _____ of the Brazil football team.
He is thinking about a new _____ for the team.
The plan is to use Raphinha as a _____.
Raphinha normally plays as a _____.
At his club Barcelona, Raphinha sometimes plays as a center-forward too.
A young player named Breno Bidon got a surprise _____ to Brazil's team.
He plays for the club _____.
Bidon said he learned a lot from teammate Bruno Guimarães.
Also, an Australian player scored an amazing _____ goal against Brazil.
Many _____ talked about the great goal online.
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