Learn English Through Football Podcast: Book their place

In this week's football-language podcast we look at a phrase connected to qualifying for a competition or tournament: book their place after some recent 2026 World Cup qualifiers. You can read the transcript for this podcast below, while you can also check out our glossary of footballing phrases here and visit our site to access all our previous posts and podcasts. If you have any suggestions or questions about the phrase or our podcast then you can contact us here.



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Hello

DF: You are listening to the Learn English Through Football Podcast.



DF: Hello everyone I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the football. My name is Damian and I am based here in London where the weather is still quite warm which is great. What is the weather like where you are?



Now, football is currently on an international break as there are 2026 World Cup qualifiers taking place all around the world; so this means there is hardly any domestic or league football happening. Instead, we have qualifying matches for the 2026 World Cup tournament and remember that we only have 10 months to go until that kicks off!



And on today's podcast we will look at some language that has emerged from these qualifiers, including: to book a place. We will also look at some predictions language as we try and predict the big World Cup qualifier between Serbia and England.



Stinger: (A football fan from Ghana (Twi language))



Right, before we move on to talk about some football language, just to let you know that we are still making some changes to our site. Remember, that we are now known as learnengishthroughfootball.com after changing our domain name. This means we are no longer using languagecaster.com but don't worry you can still find us even if you still click on the old name and you will still hear and see languagecaster on many parts of our site and hear it on our podcast.



Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in Spanish)



DF: Yes, that message was in Spanish and we will have some more stingers or messages throughout the show in different languages. Try and guess what languages they are and we will let you know what they are at the end of the show.



And of course it would be great if you could send us a message in your own language - just tell us, 'You are listening to the Learn English through football podcast' in any language that you know.



Right, here's another stinger for you and I will give you a clue, this language is spoken in Asia and their national team have already qualified for the 2026 World Cup finals next year.



Stinger: You are listening to languagecaster.com (in Korean) 

Football Language: Book a place

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OK, so the World Cup qualifiers are currently taking place - how is your country doing? Have they already qualified? Do they have a good chance of qualifying for the finals next year? Or are they already out (or eliminated)? Remember that to qualify for a tournament means that a team will play in that tournament; tey have beaten other teams to get there. So, teams that qualify for the 2026 World Cup will play in that competition next summer. <a href="https://learnenglishthroughfootball.