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Sports / Fitness / Recreation / soccer | | Spanish term or phrase: clásico | I´m translating a book about soccer.
In Uruguay, a game between the two traditional rival soccer teams, Nacional and Peñarol, is called "un clásico".
This term appears throughout the book.
I see the term "derby" in several KudoZ entries.
My question: is "derby" used both in UK and USA English? If not, is there a more widely used term?
Some sample sentences are:
- "Una tarde de clásico, el partido está próximo a comenzar y el público ingresa al estadio"
- "Las miradas no quieren perderse ni un instante las alternativas de un apasionante clásico de 1919"
Thank you!! |
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| | derby | Explanation:
There's no other word for it in UK English, though you can now italicise "clásico" and leave it in the text. Most English-language publications like to add a splash of colour by using such words.
You can call this particular game the Montevideo derby as they are the two biggest clubs in the Uruguayan capital.
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Here's a history of the fixture on the FIFA website:
http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/stories/classicderby/new...
You'll see it's also called the "superclasico", which is a really big derby, like Boca Juniors- River Plate in Buenos Aires. |
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  James Calder
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4 mins confidence:  peer agreement (net): +4 derby
Explanation:
There's no other word for it in UK English, though you can now italicise "clásico" and leave it in the text. Most English-language publications like to add a splash of colour by using such words.
You can call this particular game the Montevideo derby as they are the two biggest clubs in the Uruguayan capital.
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Note added at 8 mins (2009-11-11 11:05:21 GMT)
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Here's a history of the fixture on the FIFA website:
http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/stories/classicderby/new...
You'll see it's also called the "superclasico", which is a really big derby, like Boca Juniors- River Plate in Buenos Aires.
| James Calder
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Asker: Thank you James. Great link I´ll use it as reference for the rest of the translation as well !!!
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