Any Japanese speakers feel like translating about 1:48 minutes’ worth of sports commentary?
In this video, a Spanish U-12 football (soccer) team beats a Japanese team. After the Spanish boys celebrate, they console their visibly-distraught opponents. Good sportsmanship wins the day!
I’m curious what the commentators were saying about it.
Also, at about 1:05, #20 says something to one of the Japanese lads, but my Spanish isn’t good enough to read lips (unless the lad was speaking in English or Japanese; in either case, I didn’t pick it up).
ASIDE: I notice that the Spanish lads, #20 in particular, put their hands on the Japanese boys’ faces and look them in the eye. A sign of respect/affection in Spain, but doubtless the Japanese boys might have been put off by the gesture in any other context. Japanese don’t look each other in the eye and avoid touching each other at all costs, if I remember what I’ve read about Japanese culture. I hope the Japanese lads didn’t take it the wrong way. They don’t seem to.
Bizarre that those kids are crying. How badly did they lose? :eek:
Sort of hard to hear the commentators but they’re just saying that the Spanish boys are being wonderful and it’s nice for them to use physical gestures to console the Japanese kids because they can’t talk to each other.
I cannot read lips to save my life, so I don’t know what he said, but, since the team is from Barcelona, if it wasn’t English, it might as well have been Catalan rather than Spanish.
Before the shot there’s one saying “¡tira! ¡tiraaaaa!” (“shoot! SHOOT!”)
I see one which seems to me to be saying “ya, ya” (or “ja, ja” if you spell it in Catalan, the spoken word is the same; Spanish/Catalan for “now, now” or “there, there”) and then at 1:08 another one which seems to me to be speaking English (“you did good”). The one at 1:38 is on the side, which as any deaf person can tell you is shit for lipreading.
That gesture of ruffling each other’s hair shows how young they are: grown-ups are highly unlikely to touch each other’s head casually, but for a kid it’s a comforting gesture.
I think the kids showed great sportsmanship. The problem though is the pressure the Japanese kids were put under to win. It’s a game; they’re kids. Let them just enjoy playing the game.