Acculturation and sports language. An assessment from three languages

This article presents how Russian and Spanish, with so differ ent origins, have been and still is under the influence, specifically in sport terminology, of a third language, English. We offer details about how English arrived at each one of them and how having changed the circumstances that originated its presence i n th ese languages, today it is evident the existence of English terms in both languages. Also, we present examples of how it happens in practice, as well as the m edia influence in their expansion.