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armar un picadito

English translation: have/having a kickabout


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Spanish term or phrase:armar un picadito
English translation:have/having a kickabout
Entered by: Mónica Algazi
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22:07 Dec 5, 2006
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Sports / Fitness / Recreation / Fútbol
Spanish term or phrase: armar un picadito
It is what children and older boys do when they play (soccer) football in a very informal, casual way in a park or in the street, with just a ball and something resembling two goals (perhaps a couple of stones on each side).
Mónica Algazi
Uruguay
Local time: 02:38
have/having a kickabout
Explanation:
good luck, this could be it!

BBC SPORT | World Cup 2006 Blog | King CarlosThe next day - would you believe it - Tony Curtis and Donatella Versace were having a kickabout with some local kids near the city's main art gallery. ...
www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/worldcup/2006/06/king_carlos_1.html - 110k - Cached - Similar pages

BBC - Black Country - Junior Football - This is no ordinary clubMore and more boys started going along on a Sunday to have a kickabout. ... is better than just having a kickabout in the park with your old dad, surely?! ...
www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/content/articles/2006/10/18/brow... - 31k - Cached - Similar pages

Don't overuse Becks, London warned | the Daily Mail... effectively ruling out London 2012 having England football captain Beckham photographed having a kickabout with Singapore youngsters before the July 6 ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sport/othersports.h... - Similar pages

icTeesside - 101 Reasons Why It's Great Up NorthHaving a kickabout - The Teesside Junior Football Alliance is the county's biggest junior football league with over more than 400 teams competing. ...
icteesside.icnetwork.co.uk/101greatreasons/greatreasons/ - 86k - Cached - Similar pages

What The Papers Say: 9-11-2006 - Yahoo! Sport UKFinally, Newcastle fans should turn to page 30 of The Sun to see a picture of Prince Charles having a kickabout at St James' Park and he and Camilla holding ...



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Note added at 13 mins (2006-12-05 22:21:33 GMT)
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children of all ages, it seems!
Selected response from:

Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:38
Grading comment
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2set up a makeshift (football/soccer) pitch (on the street)
David Hollywood
4 +1have/having a kickabout
Carol Gullidge
4(street) pick-up game (of soccer)xxxElChe


  

Answers


1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
set up a makeshift (football/soccer) pitch (on the street)


Explanation:
I would say

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Note added at 3 mins (2006-12-05 22:11:01 GMT)
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(or in the park or wherever ... the key word here is "makeshift" IMO)

David Hollywood
Local time: 02:38
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 83
Notes to answerer
Asker: Gracias, David.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  William [Bill] Gray
10 mins
  -> thanks Bill :)

agree  silviantonia
6 hrs
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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
have/having a kickabout


Explanation:
good luck, this could be it!

BBC SPORT | World Cup 2006 Blog | King CarlosThe next day - would you believe it - Tony Curtis and Donatella Versace were having a kickabout with some local kids near the city's main art gallery. ...
www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/worldcup/2006/06/king_carlos_1.html - 110k - Cached - Similar pages

BBC - Black Country - Junior Football - This is no ordinary clubMore and more boys started going along on a Sunday to have a kickabout. ... is better than just having a kickabout in the park with your old dad, surely?! ...
www.bbc.co.uk/blackcountry/content/articles/2006/10/18/brow... - 31k - Cached - Similar pages

Don't overuse Becks, London warned | the Daily Mail... effectively ruling out London 2012 having England football captain Beckham photographed having a kickabout with Singapore youngsters before the July 6 ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sport/othersports.h... - Similar pages

icTeesside - 101 Reasons Why It's Great Up NorthHaving a kickabout - The Teesside Junior Football Alliance is the county's biggest junior football league with over more than 400 teams competing. ...
icteesside.icnetwork.co.uk/101greatreasons/greatreasons/ - 86k - Cached - Similar pages

What The Papers Say: 9-11-2006 - Yahoo! Sport UKFinally, Newcastle fans should turn to page 30 of The Sun to see a picture of Prince Charles having a kickabout at St James' Park and he and Camilla holding ...



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Note added at 13 mins (2006-12-05 22:21:33 GMT)
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children of all ages, it seems!

Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:38
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 18
Notes to answerer
Asker: Gracias, Carol y David.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  David Hollywood: a good option IMO :)
24 mins
  ->  thanks, David, what a good sport!
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
(street) pick-up game (of soccer)


Explanation:
'pick-up' is the equivalent slang expression for picadito. It means improvised; at the spur of the moment.

xxxElChe
Vatican City State
Local time: 07:38
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
Notes to answerer
Asker: Gracias, ElChe.

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