WORLD CUP USA ’94 / ROUND OF 16 : SPOTLIGHT : ‘GROUND BALL’ DULL

With soccer on television more than ever before here, foreign visitors are learning that the sport has a whole different language in the United States.

This is how ESPN’s Bob Ley described Swedish striker Kennet Andersson’s shot that gave him his second goal against Saudi Arabia on Sunday: “that’s a low worm-burner.”

“Grass-cutter” soccer has heard of, but “worm-burner?”