With the date of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar approaching, scheduled for next November 20, ESPN has introduced a set of common football terms in Arabic to its subscribers around the world wishing to travel to the Gulf region to follow the global event. countries in an attempt to integrate and interact. With local fans during the event.
The network chose a set of terms it considered necessary, such as “Bark”, “Banati” or “Belin”, “Bridge”, “Kidd and Hat”, “Bacord” and others.
The network provided a definition for each term and the reason for its name, noting that these terms are commonly used in all Arab countries from Oman to Morocco with slight dialectal differences.
Notably, in this report, the network included the term “Jafla” as one of the football terms in the Arab region, showing the origin of the word and how its use has become popular among football fans.
She noted that the term has recently been used in the football “vocabulary” among the Arab masses.
The report continued: “The term ‘Al-Jafala’ was born in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2015 when Riyadh’s two poles faced Al-Hilal and Al-Nasr in the King’s Cup final.”
“After 90 minutes of stress, but no goals,
Al-Nasr pushed ahead and seemed to decide the match with seconds of extra time, especially in the 120th minute when Al-Hilal defender Mohammed Al-Jafali equalized. The two teams went to a penalty shoot-out and Al-Hilal won the title. , and a new term for late dramatic development was born.
Since then, jihad has spread to other areas of life and has come to mean any last-minute turn of events.
