a seguinte à seleccao principal

English translation: second to the main team

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Portuguese term or phrase:a seguinte à seleccao principal
English translation:second to the main team
Entered by: rhandler

23:56 Feb 24, 2006
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Sports / Fitness / Recreation / Football
Portuguese term or phrase: a seguinte à seleccao principal
como eu estava a trabalhar com a seleccao Olimpica que era a seguinte à seleccao principal, tive de assumir este jogo.
peterinmadrid
Portugal
Local time: 02:02
second to the main team
Explanation:
"as I was working with the Olympic team, which was second to the main team, I had to take on this match."
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rhandler
Local time: 21:02
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Summary of answers provided
5second to the main team
rhandler
5second to the national team
Braz
4the next following the first/main/official team
Isabella Becker
4second-string team
Marcelo González


  

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second to the main team


Explanation:
"as I was working with the Olympic team, which was second to the main team, I had to take on this match."

rhandler
Local time: 21:02
Native speaker of: Portuguese
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the next following the first/main/official team


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Isabella Becker
Brazil
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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second-string team


Explanation:
Another option might be "second string team" (without the hyphen)

...coach Juan Ramon Lopez Caro fielded **a second string team***. ... Football Top Stories.
www.abc.net.au/sport/content/200512/s1525392.htm - 20k -

As a member of the **second-string team** (Australia "A"), Love has averaged 200 runs against England ... Olympic Marathon Trials Update: In the Women's Trials, ...
www.centralparktc.org/fun/journal1202.htm - 188k - Cached -

Why don't England take penalties seriously? - Ecademy... Frank. [ << Do you think the olympic games coming to ... messing with domestic football is not going to help ... been booted out and **a second string team** with something ...
www.b2bslash.com/node.php?id=25797 - 54k - Supplemental

West Australian Football (Soccer) News : November-December 2002... fixture of the clubs strong **second string team** over the past few months. ... Coyne played his club football with Kingsway Olympic before heading off to ...
http://members.iinet.net.au/~jacob/wasoccer/NewsNovDec02.htm

football discussion forum, World cup asian cup and ... Japan will probably be either fielding their **second string team** against us or will ...
www.irankicks.com/ikboard/ archive/index.php/t-20878.html -

Marcelo González
United States
Local time: 14:02
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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second to the national team


Explanation:
or "the one right after the national team" if its importance is to be stressed

Braz
Native speaker of: Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 16
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