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defender

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Obranca zablokoval strelu tesne pred bránkou.
The defender blocked the shot just in front of the goal.
Obranca zachytil loptu pred bránkou.
The defender intercepted the ball in front of the goal.
Skúsený obranca upokojil mladších spoluhráčov.
The experienced defender calmed the younger teammates.
Obranca zastavil útok v poslednej chvíli.
The defender stopped the attack at the last moment.
Source
Slovak National Corpus (SNK) ↗English gloss from the frequency publish path. Hand-reviewed example sentences.
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