May 21, 2013 16:10
11 yrs ago
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português term

o grande craque (crack)

português para inglês Outra Esportes/forma física/recreação
This is from a sports show about Brazilian soccer. The three apresentadores are talking about this years "seleção" and one of the men says:

Quem seria o grande craque nessa seleção?

Proposed translations

+3
4 horas
Selected

star player

star player
Peer comment(s):

agree T o b i a s : Funny that it took 8 (plus?) tries to get this right.
4 horas
True, it's strange, thanks. :-)
agree suesimons
11 horas
Thanks Sue
agree Lais Leite
5 dias
thanks Lais
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
1 min

the star

And who would be the real star of the team?

An option!
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+4
1 min

the big star

Neymar, I guess.
Peer comment(s):

agree Tiago Moita (X)
1 hora
agree Julia Ziegler
1 hora
agree Rintje
8 horas
agree Luciano Monteiro
14 dias
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2 minutos

greatest individual player

There may well be other ways of saying it as it depends a lot on style
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6 minutos

the top soccer player / the most skilled soccer player


footballer (British English)

Algumas sugestões abaixo.

Vale lembrar que a palavra ‘soccer player‘ [jogador de futebol] no inglês britânico é ‘footballer‘. Isto significa que as combinações acima serão assim no inglês britânico: skillful footballer, talented footballer, top footballer, top-class footballer, keen footballer.

http://www.influx.com.br/blog/2009/07/06/como-dizer-em-ingle...
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1 hora
português term (edited): o grande craque

the ace / the MVP (most valuable player)

I like James's answer the most (the big star), but here are some other options.
Although these are also accurate, I'm not sure what would be the most appropriate term to use here, since I don't listen to sports talk...
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4 horas
português term (edited): grande craque

hotshot

option

E.g.
On the look-out for Leeds’ next hotshot
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/football/local-f...

On Thursday, AC Milan and Corinthians agreed to a move that would see the 23-year-old hotshot leave the Rossoneri to join the club world champions for a fee of 15 million euros.
http://dawn.com/2013/01/06/pato-the-latest-homecoming-brazil...

Pelé
Acting and film career
. . .
Os Trapalhões e o Rei do Futebol (1986)
Hotshot (1987)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelé

Man City makes first move to sign Brazilian hotshot Neymar
http://topnews.in/sports/man-city-makes-first-move-sign-braz...

Real Madrid sign Brazilian hotshot
Real Madrid have announced on their official website that they have signed Sao Paulo midfielder Casemiro
http://www.soccernews.com/real-madrid-sign-brazilian-hotshot...
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6 horas

Who is this year's standout on the national team?

Suggestion . . .

Who is this year's standout on the national team?
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