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2026 World Cup Language Podcast – Day 39: Bronze Final
It’s day 39 of the 2026 World Cup and on today’s World Cup language podcast we look at the phrase: Bronze final. 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.
Hello
DF: Hello again everyone. This is Damian from the Learn English through Football team and I hope you are all doing well and enjoying, the World Cup.
This is day 39 of our World Cup language series in which we are explaining a phrase or expression from the World Cup each day. Thank you for staying with us over the past six weeks and hopefully you are finding them useful with your language learning or your language teaching.
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Bronze Final
DF: Yes, you are listening to the Learn English through Football podcast, or as we were known before, Languagecaster, and that message was in Spanish. Spain take on Argentina in the 2026 World Cup final later on today. And this is the first time that these two sides have met since 1966 in a World Cup. And it is the first time that the champions of Europe will face the champions of South America in the final.
But before that game we had the match between the two losing semi-finalists: France and England in what used to be known as the third-place play-off but is now called the ‘Bronze Final‘. This game is traditionally played the day before the final and generally it is understood that neither of the two teams really want to be there after losing in the semi-finals a couple of days before.
For this 2026 edition, FIFA wanted to upgrade this match from a ‘losers’ game’ to one with a bronze medal at stake. And this means we no longer call it the third-place play off and now use Bronze Final instead!
Rollercoaster
The match between France and England was a crazy one with England racing into a four-goal lead in the first half before France hit back to score three goals early in the second half. It looked like there would be an unlikely comeback from France but then England scored again to make it 5-3; then France scored again to make it 5-4 before Jude Bellingham scored England’s sixth in the final minute.
The Guardian newspaper report started with a question:
‘Where to start with this rollercoaster of a match?’
A rollercoaster goes up and down and this was what the writer wanted to show – the game was up and down with one side dominating for a bit and then the other team doing the same; we didn’t really know what was going to happen next! So, we can say that the Bronze Final was a rollercoaster game which England eventually won 6-4.
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Contact
Now don’t forget, if you want to get in contact with us or ask a football-language question then just come along to our site here at learnenglishthroughfootball.com; you can also drop us an email at: [email protected].
Goodbye
DF: Thank you everyone again for listening. On today’s World Cup language show, we looked at the phrases, ‘Bronze Final‘ and ‘rollercoaster’ after England beat France to finish third in the 2026 World Cup. Can you think of any other words for this phrase in any other languages that you know? If so, drop us a line and let us know. And we’ll be back soon with some more expressions after the World Cup final. Until then, bye bye.
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