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    Como se dice "underdog"? Es un equipo que todo el mundo espera que va a perder...que tiene poco chansa de ganar.
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    Nice word, came up before in my life, jeje.

    But we have no word for that, Vicente.

    el menos favorito
    el que se esperaba que perdiera

    We should invent something

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    Quote Originally Posted by vicente View Post
    Como se dice "underdog"? Es un equipo que todo el mundo espera que va a perder...que tiene poco chansa de ganar.
    could it be ?

    el equipo mas debil

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    Thanks guys. I can't believe that there is no word, especially in the world of fútbol or soccer, for the underdog!! It is widely used in English, at least in U.S. English. In sports, politics, in most any situation where one is considered to have the least chance of winning. Gotta be a Word for that!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by vicente View Post
    Thanks guys. I can't believe that there is no word, especially in the world of fútbol or soccer, for the underdog!! It is widely used in English, at least in U.S. English. In sports, politics, in most any situation where one is considered to have the least chance of winning. Gotta be a Word for that!!!
    Ok. So if this is about soccer, then the underdog team is the "Cenicienta". So for example in the match between Uruguay and Costa Rica, the Costa Rican team is the underdog. Therefore Costa Rica is the "Cenicienta" of the game. Of course, this meaning is only applicable to soccer. I am not so sure it applies to other sports.


    Mundial 2014: Uruguay saltar a la cancha y chocar con Costa Rica

    La Celeste, que viene de terminar cuarta en la última Copa del Mundo (Sudáfrica 2010) no tendrá a su peligroso delantero Luis Suárez, quien se recupera de una lesión en una de sus rodillas sufrida en mayo pasado. El equipo de Oscar Tabárez intentará arrancar con un triunfo ante la Cenicienta de la zona, que participó tan solo en Italia 1990, donde llegó a octavos de final.

    http://www.republica.com.uy/arevalo-...da-que-perder/
    El volante uruguayo Egidio Arévalo Ríos consideró el pasado miércoles, hablando en conferencia de prensa, que el debut de su equipo el sábado en el Mundial de Brasil, ante Costa Rica en Fortaleza, es peligroso porque será ante un equipo “que no tiene nada que perder” ya que los ticos llegan como la “Cenicienta” del grupo D de la Copa del Mundo
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    Intersante término, Cali. En España no es término utilizado en este sentido. Pero bueno, si se puede aplicar en otros países,bienvenido sea

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    Hola Chicos,
    Estoy de acuerdo con Exxentrica - la mejor opciòn es "el menos favorito" " con menos posibilidades" o segùn contexto " un equipo modesto"
    Pero me gusta màs la versiòn de Exx. "El equipo menos favorito" o "el equipo con menos chances de ganar"

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    Quote Originally Posted by CaliforniaMan View Post
    Ok. So if this is about soccer, then the underdog team is the "Cenicienta". So for example in the match between Uruguay and Costa Rica, the Costa Rican team is the underdog. Therefore Costa Rica is the "Cenicienta" of the game. Of course, this meaning is only applicable to soccer. I am not so sure it applies to other sports.


    Mundial 2014: Uruguay saltar a la cancha y chocar con Costa Rica

    La Celeste, que viene de terminar cuarta en la última Copa del Mundo (Sudáfrica 2010) no tendrá a su peligroso delantero Luis Suárez, quien se recupera de una lesión en una de sus rodillas sufrida en mayo pasado. El equipo de Oscar Tabárez intentará arrancar con un triunfo ante la Cenicienta de la zona, que participó tan solo en Italia 1990, donde llegó a octavos de final.

    Arévalo Ríos:
    El volante uruguayo Egidio Arévalo Ríos consideró el pasado miércoles, hablando en conferencia de prensa, que el debut de su equipo el sábado en el Mundial de Brasil, ante Costa Rica en Fortaleza, es peligroso porque será ante un equipo “que no tiene nada que perder” ya que los ticos llegan como la “Cenicienta” del grupo D de la Copa del Mundo
    In the U.S. we have the favorite and the underdog...so el favorito y el menos favorito sounds OK

    But la cenicienta...the Cinderella team. I like that. Cinderella was certainly the underdog but everybody wanted her to become the princess. That's not always the case in a sports where the underdog could also be a team everybody despises but generally "everybody loves an underdog" so I think cenicienta might be the word. I'm going with it until I find a better one.


    Edit: After thinking about it, I've changed my mind. A Cinderella team is one which say, starts the season at or near the bottom and is not expected to go far and certainly not win a championship but goes on to defeat opponents and win the championship against all expectations. In that regard a Cinderella team is an underdog.

    However, an underdog is not always a Cinderella team. Every game has a favorite and an underdog, i.e., the team expected to lose. The underdog could well be a very good team but is matched against a better team in any given game.

    So for now I guess I'll go with el menos favorito.
    Last edited by vicente; 06-17-2014 at 01:49 AM.
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    Estoy de acuerdo con "la Cenicienta", es el que nadie espera y al final sorprende

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    Sí, "la Cenicienta" podría servir, mas no si hablamos de varios Underdogs, el slang del español tiene algunas palabras como "Pichi" o "Pelele" que aplicarían como traducción de Underdog.

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