| Kommentar | Would you say this is also what fans would yell when they're watching? It seems a little less likely to me to hear the play-by-play announcer yell at the player to shoot, but maybe the German announcers are more partisan during something like a big World Cup game.
I can't speak to the BE aspect, except that many of the soccer announcers on American TV are British, so we hear them a lot. Just for soccer in general, here are a few:
Shoot! Shoot the ball!
Take it! Take the shot!
Hit it! Kick it!
Put it in! In the net!
I was trying to think of the same thing in Spanish, just out of curiosity, and I can't quite remember, except that Hristo Stoichkov always uses 'chutear' and none of the native Spanish speakers do, so I think it must be maybe Portuguese, or just Spanglish. Maybe something like 'échale' or 'dale' would work. You could ask in the other forum. (-:
I'm not sure 'Do it!' is all that idiomatic in this context, but it's understandable and not wrong, and I think Raudona's sense that we would use a past tense verb is right,
Do it, do it, do it ... He did it!
Get it, get it, get it ... He got it!
Hit it, hit it, hit it ... He hit it!
The catch is that all of those still sound a little translated. In real life we might just use two different verbs, and only the second one would be 'He did it!', whatever the first one was.
*edit*
Ha -- I just happened to be watching Newcastle-Arsenal from early this morning on tape, with two British announcers, and here's what they said:
(56')
—Ritchie coming into the middle ... Here's Joelinton ...
... appeals for a handball ...
Schär was absolutely adamant that it should have been a Newcastle free kick.
Here's Ritchie in his more central role ...
[Ritchie heads the ball down to Almirón's feet just outside the penalty arc; A. takes a touch too many and loses the ball, to groans from the crowd]
I think a lot of people at St. James's Park were just expecting Almirón to try and pull the trigger there.
—One second I think everyone was on the edge of their seat, weren't they, if you were a Newcastle United fan. Little flick, little touch on the knee, sat up so nicely. Went for the reverse, didn't he, back in to Matt Ritchie, but ... Any purist was just screaming at Miguel Almirón there just to hit it.
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