Japan's Women's Football Team Wins Third Straight Asian Games Gold
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Japan's women's football team won gold at the Asian Games. The team is called Nadeshiko Japan. They beat North Korea in the final.
The game finished 2-2 after normal time. So the two teams played a penalty shootout. Japan won the shootout.
This is Japan's third gold medal in a row at the Asian Games. It is also their fourth gold medal ever. No other team has won four times. This is a new record.
News reports say the Japan team was an instant team. This means many players did not play together much before. But the team played very well together.
Vocabulary15 words
- Asian Games
- a big sports event for countries in Asia
- penalty shootout
- a way to find a winner when a game is tied; players kick the ball one by one
- instant team
- a team made quickly, with players who have not trained together for a long time
- gold medal
- a prize for coming first place
- final
- the last game in a competition, to find the winner
- consecutive
- happening one after another, without a break
- record
- the best result ever, that no one else has done
- shootout
- a short part of a game to decide the winner
- beat
- to win a game against someone
- tournament
- a sports competition with many games
- title
- the name for winning a competition
- normal time
- the usual length of a game, before extra time
- national team
- a team that plays for a country
- opponent
- the other team you play against
- competition
- an event where teams or people try to win
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1. North Korea 2. They won a penalty shootout 3. True
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Japan's women's football team won _____ at the Asian Games.
The team is called _____ Japan.
They beat North Korea in the _____.
The game finished 2-2 after _____ time.
So the two teams played a penalty _____.
Japan won the _____.
This is Japan's third gold medal in a _____ at the Asian Games.
It is also their fourth gold medal ever, a new _____.
The Japan team was an _____ team.
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