I’ve been watching the soccer World Cup in Spanish. Seems a lot more exciting in Spanish. The play-by-play and commentaries are more detailed and sound rapid-fire (hence, more exciting) because of greater preponderance of multi-syllabic words in Spanish.

Also, there are many ways to say the same thing, and the broadcasters/commentators use all of them. For example, the goalkeeper is at once “el portero”, “el arquero”, “el guardameta”, “el guardavalla”, and “el cancerbero”.

But I haven’t heard Andrés Cantor and his wonderful cries of “gooooooooooooooooool” yet. Whatever happened to him? Is he not calling the games anymore?