Language barriers overseas?

Well I know at Bayern the 4 forwards are Pizarro, Roque, Guerrero and Makay.

Makay has learned spanish, and so at anygiven time, the front line is communicating in spanish. I know Magath can also speak it. So its not a big problem for them.

I was thinking how La Foquita is communicating. I think PSV has him in English and Dutch classes. This why La Foquita is going to be the best, the Dutch mentality is to prepare you off and on the field.

 

I'm pretty sure he can speak German relatively well. Because of three reasons.

1. When he got in that fight in the club after winning the Bundisliga. He was with Kahn and other Germans, I'm sure they had to speak german off the field.

2. When he got that DUI, he had to talk to the cop in German.

3. He, Makay and Kahn just promoted the Bayern Munich cookbook, and on Galavision, I heard him talk in German. I dont know how bad or how good it was. (As a matter of fact, he was talking to Makay in spanish, and Makay answered back to him in spanish, so Pizarro probably does feel more comfortable in spanish)

4. His children were born in Germany, so he has to communicate with the staff in German.

 

Playing in the EPL can be a bitch for non-English speaking players, just ask Hernan Crespo.

 

I was really surprised on how bad Borghetti's english is. They had a camara crew follow him on a typical day. And he has english tutorials everyday. That guy was barely saying lines like "its a cat" "its a hat".

 

lol, make him suffer.

For Farfan, Hiddink speaks spanish, and Farfan understands dutch, don't know if he can speak it, and his social life must not be bad, he probably hangs around the brazilians.

 

I love German, I try to learn a little bit of different languages to get by and this guy at the office has me hooked on German, everything you say just sounds dirty Essen Sie meine Scheiße

 

I thought all the clubs provide the Language courses at the training camps? I would think its part of the deal for overseas players. Now if the player is too dumb too learn, oh well

 

Solano has lived on England for years and years now, and I don;t think he knows any.

It was funny on that "Nobby Forever" compilation video,During the first seconds, he is being interviewed with Alan Shearer... he sounded so funny...

 

I didnt think Nobby would sound that good

 

I heard Crespo do a couple post match interviews and his English is really great which surprised me, It' good to see he's made an effort to learn the language, as Solano has too.

Unfortunately the other South American we had (at my team Newcastle) - Tino Asprilla didn't make any effort to learn the language even though he was here for 2 years +

I think it has a correlation on how successful you are in the league (of course with the odd exceptions)

ie: Crespo, Solano, Juninho, Juan Pablo Angel (to an extent) all made a good effort to speak English,and are more respected for that, have did well in the EPL

the likes of Emerson, Kleberson, Veron didn't make any effort and were sh!t

 

Makes sense.

If you do well, you're probably going to stay in the country longer so you'd be better served learning the language.

 

For the record...

People with yellow cards and who just got a red card should not make nazi jokes and Mexican jokes.

Please continue with the thread and do not reply to this post.

 

I had mentioned mentioned a few weeks back after looking at some player profiles, I don't think Nobby or Pizza finished high school. That does not mean they are dumb, but may have put football before school and now it is hard for them. Who knows.

 

Hell, some of these cats can barely speak Spanish either. Some messed up pronunciations.

 

I just went to my first pollada. asu mare.. try and understand what drunk peruanos are trying to say.

 

Mendoza!!