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football

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1. (context, UK, uncountable) A game in which two teams of eleven players each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball with their foot, feet. In amateur games it may be a team of five or six, or indeed any number. Each team scored three goals when they played . 1. (context, US, fb, uncountable) A game similar to rugby football in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory. Each team scored two touchdowns when they played . 1. (context, Canada, uncountable) Canadian football. A game played on a wide field in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory. They played in the snow. 1. (context, Australia, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory, uncountable) Australian rules football. 2. (context, Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, uncountable) Rugby League. 3. (context, Australia, uncountable) Term occasionally used to refer to the same game as the British definition (association football), though the official name in Australia is "soccer". 4. (countable) The ball used in any game called "football". ''The player kicked the . 1. Practise of these particular games, or techniques used in them. 2. (context, metaphorical) An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner That budget item became a political . 1. (context, Ireland) A field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball. 2. (slang) The nickname of the leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans, which is always near the US President.

Football: Defeated Mourinho blasts "dirty" football


Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho, stung by a shock 1-0 loss to Levante, accused the winners of acting and said his own players aren't comfortable with the "dirty side" of football.

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Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho, stung by a shock 1-0 loss to Levante, accused the winners of acting and said his own players aren't comfortable with the "dirty side" of football. Mourinho, whose side played much of the game with only 10 men after Sami Khedira got sent off for a second yellow card, blasted the referee, his own players and most of all the Levante style of play. "I don't want to take anything away from Levante's merit," the Portuguese told a news conference after the away defeat, Real's first of the season, which leaves them in fourth place, three points behind leaders Valencia and Athletic Bilbao and one back from Barcelona. "As always, here at their home they let them do as they want and they do it very well," Mourinho charged. "I only have to congratulate them for being clever because they know how to provoke, they know how to fake it, they know how to gain time, they know how not to give the ball, they know all this which is also football. And here I can agree that our players are not at ease in this environment." Mourinho said the last time Levante came to the Bernabeu Real Madrid beat them easily. "We have players who are very good playing on big stages where they play football for the footall and they come here and they are not able to adapt to the situation. "I don't want to use the word, I am not sure if the word is rude, if it is it's not my intention but I can't find another -- the dirty side of football, you know: the faking, the provocation, gaining time, not giving the ball," he said. The Real Madrid coach said the squad had discussed the Levante tactics before the game and he blamed "one of my players" -- apparently pointing the finger at Khedira -- "because he fell into the trap. "For that I blame him in part for the defeat. I have no problem doing so," the coach said.

"But as I was saying, the referee also has blame because a penalty and an expulsion is a lot, in a balanced game it is a lot too, and the blame is ours, mine and also all the players who were on the field too."

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