Word of the Week!

I decided to take a break from "churchy" information today and share a feature from a weekly German informational email I receive. The email features a word of the week. Here is this week's word!

As the 2016 European Championship continues, let's take a look at another German soccer word that may come in handy if you're watching the games in German: Fallrückzieher.

This word describes a particular move in which the soccer player throws his body up into the air and backwards, kicking the airborne ball backwards above his head - all without touching the ground. It's a very challenging move and one that receives a lot of attention when properly executed. In English, this move may be called a bicycle kick, overhead kick or scissors kick. In German, it's a Fallrückzieher. This is a combination of the words Fall ("fall"), rück (from rückwarts - "backwards") and zieher(from ziehen - "to pull"). Together, these words describe the movement - a "falling backwards kick".