Tackle

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Most forms of football have a move known as a tackle. The primary purposes of tackling are to dispossess an opponent of the ball, to stop the player from gaining ground towards goal or to stop them from carrying out what they intend.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Tackle (football move)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Alasdair Middleton from Rothesay, Scotland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.