THE FOOTBALL WORDS

Is a universal well known thing that people love football. In any country and in any remote area people get together to follow a match of their favorite team.

Here you have some words about football that can be useful in Amharic:

MALIA                  Shirt

TAKETI                  Football Shoes

KUMTA                Shorts

KWAS                    Ball

KWAS MEDA      stadium

GOAL                    Goal

DEGAFI                 Follower of a team

Have fun playing you too!

HAZEN

Today is a very sad day for Ethiopia, we cry the deaths of South Africa, Libia and the ethiopian people who sink in the mediterraneum.

Hazen is the word to mean mourning.

FOOTBALL LOVE

As in every place people love football. Sometimes children and not that children have no a good ball to play, but that is not forbidding them to use the imagination to play anyway the sport they like.

It happens often to see the most imaginative ways of creating a ball. The most famous ones are following ones:

KALSI KWAS- this balls are made from an old socks, first of all they need some used plastic bags to make the inside and after they make a ball with the bags they cover it with some old socks to make it more consistent.

WETET FESTA- In Ethiopia the milk is delivered in the shops with small plastic bags of half a liter, they open one of the sides and fill the bag with plastics and after with a rope they make it round and close it.

HIGHLAND- This ball is not that great work as others,  it consists in to use an empty bottle of water as it was a ball, I have seen amazing matches with improvised balls like this!

So, if one day you don’t have a ball don’t feel you can not play!