Weekly Football Phrase: Pick Out

For this week's weekly football phrase we explain the verb phrase to pick out. Find out more about this phrase by reading the transcript below and listening to the audio. You can also find many more examples of soccer vocabulary by going to our football cliches page here and our huge football glossary here.



Pick Out

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The verb to pick out, means to find. In football, we use this phrase to describe a cross or a pass that picks out, finds, a teammate. It may be across from the flanks that picks out a striker in the box, or a shorter pass that is played through defenders to pick out a teammate. The phrase conveys the feeling that the passer of the ball played a skillful pass, or was very accurate. To pick out.



* For example: Xavi spread the play out to Suarez on the right hand side and the debutant picked out Neymar unmarked on the edge of the area (Madrid v Barcelona)

* For example: Chelsea were dominant and Willian laid on another chance when he picked out Costa with a cross.



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