Post game interview He's picking up a few anglicisms ('brilliant') but he also knows what he should say and says it well.
Don't worry... this will be sung... not that anyone will hear it over the d@mn horns... but we will try...
Jozy seems to really be playing a lot of heart and passion since returning from his compassionate leave to visit Haiti. He's leaving it all out there on the field, as they say, and the goal today is much deserved reward. The picture Scotty posted a few pages back of Altidore's face after he scored--sort of looks like he was crying. In any case, the expression wasn't, "I'm relieved I finally scored." It was closer to, "I'm so lucky to be alive and experiencing this." We saw this in his national team performance in the Costa Rica match right after Charlie's accident. Many of us were hoping he'd carry that feeling with him and play like that more often. But I really didn't see it in many of his prior games with Hull that I watched. He's got it now. Keep it going, Jozy. Keep the fire in your belly burning, and I believe great things will come for you (and us)!
Fox Soccer Report highlights just said that was his first club goal since he was with the Red Bulls. That's not right is it? I swore he scored with Villarreal.
He did score for Villareal (if I remember correctly, on his first touch of that game after coming on as a sub). He also scored for Hull in one of the Cup competitions earlier in the year.
teehee ... is this Jozy's first league goal in Europe? i don't for the life of me remember when that Villarreal goal came.
Pretty sure it was a league goal on Saturday, November 1, 2008: http://soccernet-assets.espn.go.com/report?id=253103&league=ESP.1&cc=5901 Remember Yanks Abroad is always your friend when it comes to highlights and links: http://watchsocceronline.blogspot.com/2008/11/saturday-highlights-including-altidores.html
No. I agree, he definitely has. And before people start on this whole "becoming British" thing. Speaking as a Linguist major, this is a fully automatic effect which tends to be stronger in some people (usually people who are gifted in tongues) than others. Particularly people who are multi-lingual will have a greater tendency to allow a local dialect "rub off" on them. So this merely shows that Jozy is one those people, not that he's "forgetting his roots" or anything like that. I'm been told that I have a slight German accent by other Americans when I am in the States, and I can't even hear it
I have to insert a "but" here though. It's worth mentioning that this effect can also be very situational -- that's called code-switching by Linguists. That is, there is a tendency to adjust your language to the present partner in dialogue. Same thing as when you talk differently to your parents than to your friends, and then differently again to your boss, or for that matter, the way you talk to a non-native speaker. So don't think Jozy will necessarily even sound like that when talking to an American Journalist. And I'm sure he will fall back into his regular sociolect when he's hanging out with his friends again.
Oh well found the chant (or one of them anyway) http://www.people.co.uk/sport/footb...objectid=22024488&siteid=93463-name_page.html "Bridge took sustained abuse from a section of Tigers supporters - including the chant "how s**t must you be? She's s******g your mate" - as he made his first appearance since revelations of John Terry's affair with his former partner."
Hull have had the luxury of having Terry and Bridge in back to back games. Probably ripped em both apart
More than just a "bit." You filter out his naturally rough tone, he English now resembles the queens.
That is an interesting point. Never would have known that it relates to a persons' ability to quickly acquire languages. Has anyone ever heard Frank Simik speak? He has spent his entire career in England. Not a lick of the "accent." Some people pick it up and some don't.