Football is just football to many, but football is different in other countries.
Czechs play fotbal, and as you can see, Czech fotbal only has one 'o' and one 'l'.
If you want to use a strictly Czech word, then you can say kopana, derived from the verb to kick - kopat.  And what you kick is a mic - ball. To get in form, you may have a trenink, like the English training, but watch the spelling.
Fotbal shouldn't be confused with nohejbal, a sport which translates literally as football, but is in fact the popular Czech game of ' football tennis' which is like volleyball, but played with your feet.
A football match in Czech is a fotbalovy zapas, but you also just say zapas. A football game is a fotbalova hra. The Czech word for game - hra - can also be used to refer to a card game - karetni hry - and to play - hry - such as those written by the former Czech President Vaclav Havel. The word hra is related to the verb to play - hrat.

A fotbalovy zapas is held on a pitch - hriste, which of course is covered with grass - trava.  A football match always begins with a kick off - vykop. The ball -mic- is placed in the central circle - stredovy kruh on the midfield or half-way line - pulici cara. Once the referee - rozhodci- a word derived from the verb rozhodnout meaning "choose" , blows the whistle, the game gets under way, with  the utok, the forwards, trying to break through the other side's obrana - defense.  If the team has a strong forward - utocnik, like Baros for example, the Czech hero of Euro 2004, then it probably won't be long before we see a goal - branka.  You will probably hear the word gol in Czech, but beware of its spelling!  The chances of having a shot on goal - kop na branku - right at the beginning of the game are quite rare. Nonetheless, such an attack will certainly keep the keeper - brankar awake and no doubt the defenders - obranci - as well.

If the defending team commits a foul - faul - (spelled as you can you can see with an 'a' instead of an 'o') in the penalty area - pokutove uzemi- then we have a penalty - penalta - otherwise a foul will normally be punished with a free kick - volny kop. If a team misses a penalta and the keeper - brankar - hasn't touched the ball, then he gets a goal kick - kop od brany - and hopes his team isn't offside - ofsajd!

The next time you play fotbal, make sure you are not ofsajd.  Take care! Mejte se!  Bye-bye! Cau-cau!

Pavla Horakova (Radio Prague)