his close-range range

Hi all,

What does second "range" mean here?

Two minutes later, substitute Dejan Kulusevski saw his close-range range strike initially ruled out for offside, but the decision was overturned after a lengthy video assistant referee check.

Thanks in advance,

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/59930854

passengerman said:

What does second "range" mean here?

It means the article wasn't proofread or edited very well. 👁 Big Grin :D
I'm 99% sure it's a mistake and shouldn't be there.

Compare it with "long-range effort" a few lines above it.

Thank you heypresto

I googled "close range range strike" soccer - Google Search

And at least five sites have that identical quote. If it is a misquote, then it has been widely misquoted.



Two minutes later, Dejan Kulusevski saw his close-range range strike

In fact, it appears that every site on the first page of that Google search has that exact quote. If it was an error, you would think that one of the editors would have noticed it.

passengerman said:

substitute Dejan Kulusevski saw his close-range range strike initially ruled out for offside

Is there a term "a range strike" in this UK sport (in British English)?

If so, then his close-range range strike would mean "his range strike, performed at close range" (at a short distance) and the phrase would be correct. Some nearby sentences were almost incomprehensible to me, because the writer use a lot of "jargon" terms that only have meaning to people who know all the terminology of UK football. For example, the last paragraph said:

"Manuel Locatelli headed home Alvaro Morata's cross from six yards."

What does this mean? I know enough about American soccer (a similar sport) to translate. This means:

"Manuel Locatelli scored a point by hitting the ball into the goal using his head. Manuel was six meters from the goal when he did this. The ball was kicked to him from the other side by Alvaro Morata."

Every sport has "jargon" -- terms that only have that meaning in that sport. I know the "jargon" of a few sports, but not others.

Here is another example of jargon. The next paragraph in this article says "he drilled home the winner into the bottom corner from inside the area".

What does that mean? It means "he scored the winning goal by kicking the ball into the bottom corner of the rectangular goal. He was standing inside the "penalty area" when he did this."

Using UK football jargon is fine. This is the sports page of a UK website. The article was written for people who know the rules, strategy and jargon of UK football.

dojibear said:

Is there a term "a range strike" in this UK sport (in British English)?

No. It is a mistake.

As heypresto and Uncle Jack say, definitely a mistake. It's no great surprise that the same error appears in various reports : a great deal of journalism nowadays consists of cutting and pasting from other sites, particularly now that (in the UK at least) printed newspapers are mostly prioritising their online offerings (almost always meaning a lack of editorial supervision).

Cutting and pasting is fine if there is also a smattering of reading going on too. It seems that last ingredient is lacking in these repeated stories.