FC Nantes to Sign French Attacker from Parma
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FC Nantes is a football club in France. The club is not playing well this season. People say the club is in crisis. Now Nantes wants a new player for the attack.
The player is Antoine Joujou. He is French. He plays as a winger. A winger is a player who attacks from the side of the field.
Joujou plays for Parma. Parma is a football club in Italy. Nantes wants to buy him from Parma.
Nantes will pay 1 million euros for Joujou. This is part of the mercato. Mercato is the time when clubs buy and sell players.
Nantes hopes Joujou can help the team score more goals. The club wants a reinforcement for the attack. A reinforcement is something that makes a team stronger.
Vocabulary15 words
- crisis
- a very bad and difficult time
- winger
- a player who plays and attacks from the side
- mercato
- the time when football clubs buy and sell players
- reinforcement
- something new that makes a team stronger
- attacker
- a player who tries to score goals
- club
- a team, like in football
- sign
- to agree that a player will join a team
- season
- the time of the year when a sport is played
- million
- 1,000,000; a very big number
- euros
- the money used in France and Italy
- French
- from France
- Italian
- from Italy
- buy
- to pay money to get something
- goal
- when a player puts the ball in the net
- team
- a group of players who play together
Quiz
Answer key
1. The club is in crisis 2. Parma 3. 1 million euros
Fill-in-the-blank listening
Play the audio again and fill in the missing words as you listen.
FC Nantes is a football club in _____. The club is not playing well this _____. People say the club is in crisis. Now Nantes wants a new player for the _____.
The player is Antoine Joujou. He is French. He plays as a _____. A winger is a player who attacks from the side of the field.
Joujou plays for _____. Parma is a football club in Italy. Nantes wants to _____ him from Parma.
Nantes will pay 1 _____ euros for Joujou. This is part of the mercato.
Nantes hopes Joujou can help the team score more _____.