CULTURAL Y DEPORTIVA LEONESAThe "Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa" is our football team, it was founded in 1923 as a result of the mixture of the two teams of the city. Now the team is in the Second Division, but for fifteen times it was in the First Division and even once we were in "La Liga" but we lost a lot of matches and we lost the category.
A few days ago all of us remembered the winner´s spirit of the season 54-55 when we were in "La Liga" because we had to play against F.C Barcelona in the National Cup and everybody in León were very excited because F.C Barcelona came to our city to play against Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa, our football team.
The whole day people couldn´t stop to talk about it. The match was at 10:00 pm but people started to go to the Stadium at 8:00 pm. At 10:00 pm the stadium was full and the match started.
Our players had a very good chance to score a goal but they failed and five minutes later Barcelona scored its first goal. In the second part, Barcelona scored another goal and Cultural lost the match 0 -2, but it didn´t matter because people enjoyed with football, with Barcelona and with the famous players who came to León.
Fourteen days later, Cultural went to Barcelona to play a rematch and a lot of people accompanied the team. They spent a beautiful day in the city, visited monuments and known more about Barcelona. At 12:00 the match finished ant the result was worse, Cultural lost 5-0.
I understand that soccer is the most popular sport in Europe, but is soccer or "fútbol" the most popular sport in León?
ResponderEliminarDoes León have a basketball team?
I'm glad to see a post about sports. It’s interesting to see how the smaller divisions, or in USA called minor leagues, in Spain still draw a large fan base. I would like to hear more about the cultural impact of sports in Spain.
ResponderEliminarIt seems like the people of León are very supportive of and enthusiastic for their team! It's really admirable that everyone comes together for "La Liga" and there is a sense of unity among spectators. Although it's nice to occasionally win, this community-building is more important in the long-run.
ResponderEliminarYour English is really clear and easy to follow, but there are a few minor errors. Although you call this sport "fútbol," in America, we call it soccer. Football is a false cognate. It's actually a completely different sport where you throw a "football."
Great job writing the article, though! It was really interesting.
This article is really entertaining! The way you tell it as a story makes it easy to follow, and makes me want to know what happened at the end of the game.
ResponderEliminarA few corrections: Where you say "people couldn´t stop to talk about it" it would be more acceptable to say "people couldn't stop talking about it." The term enjoyed is usually used in the context: "People enjoyed the soccer, the city of Barcelona..." rather than saying "enjoyed with."
Nice job!
thanks guys for your help!
ResponderEliminarIf we do another blog in English, we´ll try to improve our english writting level.
We have seen some of your blogs and we are impressed with your ability to write in spanish, so well done.
Come to León and visit us!!
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