SOCCER GLOSSARY
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Qualifying Draw: the division of teams into groups for World Cup qualifying matches, held 2 years before The Draw.
Qualifying matches: games played in the 2 years preceding the World Cup to determine which teams participate in the tournament.
Receiver: a player who gets a pass from a teammate.
Red card: a playing card-sized card that a referee holds up to signal a player's removal from the game; the player's team must play the rest of the game shorthanded; presented for violent behavior or multiple rule infractions (two yellow cards = one red card).
Referee: the chief official; he makes all final decisions, acts as timekeeper, calls all fouls and starts and stops play.
Regular season: the schedule of games set before the season; consists of all games played before a playoff or tournament is held.
Regulation game: two completed periods of a game, prior to any overtime or tiebreaker.
Round: a stage of a tournament at which teams compete; the World Cup tournament has 5 main rounds.
Save: the act of a goalkeeper in blocking or stopping a shot that would have gone into the goal without his intervention.
Score: to put the ball into the net for a goal; also, the tally of goals for each team playing in a game.
Scorers: players who score goals.
Scoring opportunity: a situation where a team stands a good chance of scoring a goal.
Screening: see Shielding.
Set play: a planned strategy that a team uses when a game is restarted with a free kick, penalty kick, corner kick, goal kick, throw-in or kickoff.
Shielding: a technique used by a ball carrier to protect the ball from a defender closely marking him; the ball carrier keeps his body between the ball and the defender.
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