Lille Coach Defends Team's Style After Criticism
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Davide Ancelotti is the coach of Lille football team.
Lille won a game against Le Havre. Now Lille is the leader of Ligue 1. Ligue 1 is the top football league in France.
Some people do not like how Lille plays football. They say the style is not good.
Ancelotti does not understand this. He said people are sad when a team wins and sad when a team loses. He thinks this is strange.
Ancelotti said teams must be happy when they get three points. In football, a win gives a team three points.
Ancelotti also said he wants to keep trying new things with his team. He wants to experiment with different ways to play.
Lille is doing well this season. The team is at the top after six games.
Vocabulary15 words
- coach
- a person who trains a sports team
- leader
- the team that is first in a competition
- league
- a group of teams that play against each other
- style
- a special way of doing something
- points
- numbers a team gets for winning or drawing
- experiment
- to try new things to see what happens
- critic
- a person who says what is bad about something
- satisfied
- happy because something good happened
- frustrated
- feeling angry because things are not going well
- victory
- when you win a game
- provisional
- true now, but maybe not later
- result
- what happens at the end of a game
- game
- a sports match
- team
- a group of players
- season
- the time when a sport is played, like autumn to spring
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1. Lille 2. Leader 3. He is surprised by it
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Davide Ancelotti is the _____ of Lille football team.
Lille won a game against Le Havre. Now Lille is the _____ of Ligue 1.
Some people do not like how Lille plays football. They say the _____ is not good.
Ancelotti does not understand this. He said people are sad when a team _____ and sad when a team loses.
Ancelotti said teams must be happy when they get three _____.
Ancelotti also said he wants to keep trying new things with his _____.
Lille is doing well this _____. The team is at the top after six games.
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