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Desde el banquillo, una compañera animaba a la defensa y pedía calma.
Meaning
From the bench, a teammate encouraged the defender and asked for calm.
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Breakdown of Desde el banquillo, una compañera animaba a la defensa y pedía calma.
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to ask for
Questions & Answers about Desde el banquillo, una compañera animaba a la defensa y pedía calma.
What does banquillo mean here?
In this sentence, el banquillo means the bench in a sports context — the place where the substitute players and staff sit.
A few useful notes:
- banquillo can literally mean a small bench
- in sport, it often means the substitutes’ bench
- desde el banquillo suggests the speaker/player was not on the field/court at that moment
So this is not just any bench; it is specifically the team bench.
Why does it say desde el banquillo and not en el banquillo?
Both are possible in Spanish, but they mean slightly different things.
- desde el banquillo = from the bench
- this focuses on the source of the action or voice
- en el banquillo = on the bench
- this focuses more on location
In this sentence, desde el banquillo sounds natural because the important idea is that the encouragement and calls for calm were coming from there.
What does compañera mean here?