Foreign footballers speaking English

[UnquietDad]

Thought for the day: how come foreign footballers are so s**t-hot at languages? Thierry Henry or Marcel Dessailly could walk into GCSE English tomorrow and pass. Peter Schmeichel could probably do an oral at degree level! And yet some of ours even struggle to speak recognisable English...

Impressed with Lineker though, doing his Maradona interview a while back in Spanish. I think the interview itself was done through an interpreter, but the chat and setting-up was definitely all in Spanish - I saw clips of it - and he even used a passive reflexive, which some of DW's older pupils still struggle with!)

hmm - searching for UD's subtext here...

cristiano ronaldo is shit hot

Thierry Henry can do no wrong in my book.

So it's only English footballers who are as thick as pig shit then. Hmmm.
Interestingly when we were in France last year we saw the French team playing on the TV and afterwards they interviewed Thierry Henry and you know what, he even does that ummm thing when he speaks in his native language. I always thought he did that because English was his second language.

but zippi and DB provide their own.....

I love the way Schmeichel talks with a northern accent though, amuses me no end, Jan Molby was another one too.

gabriel heinze is too

i have a big thing for cristiano

i have for years

i cocked up this weekend tho

i asked dd1 if she wanted to watch chelsea v man u today with me last night

oh how she laughed

tho she doesnt get many laughs being a newcastle supporter

Oh yes, Christiano is very impressive...

actually she was working for athletico madrid managing their english website and doing the post match interview stuff...it is only really when they come to england they learn english i think

she knows torres she was working with him before he came to liverpool..

cristiano has amazing thighs i have noticed

Lol at lack of laughs for Newcastle supporters

Giorgio Samaras (used to play for Manchester City now Celtic) is really hysterical. We saw him at a game at Eastlands (Man Citys ground) he was fouled and then got booked. He said a really, really rude Greek word and my 10yr old almost fell off his seat laughing. The ref just looked at him with a blank expression.

Many of our footballers are really dim.

Lineker played for Barcelona for a while.

Lots of fottballers are not exactly know for their brain.
Michael Carrick, now Man Utd, really shoudl learn not to open his moth. He doesn't do himself anuy favours.
Rooney is the same. He should let his footballl do the talking.
Beckham, just makes himself look stupid, as soon as he opens his mouth. Lovely to look at. That about as far as it goes.

i dont find beckham attractive in any language

and i even dont like his football much either

I can't understand the fascination with Beckham myself. He's not good looking and he's a very average footballer, had his share of moments but still average.

well someone can try and convince me that whenever i think about beckham i always have a mental image of a long ball looping into nowhere

that is convince me otherwise

ic ant really criticise anyone for their ability or not to speak english

So many foreigners speak excellent English though don't they? You go abroad and feel embarassed. (especially me with my super-crap GCE French ).

Ooh at your daughter Zippi, working with Fernando Torres. ((((drool)))

Fabio Capello would seem to buck the trend, though. (I was approached recently to be interviewed for some radio programme about why exactly he was finding it so hard to learn English. I declined. Stupid question!)

I don't like Beckham. But I can appreciate that he is, if you didn't know anything about him, initially appealing, I mean he hasn't been slapped with the 'ugly stick', has he ?

Zippi's dd works with Torres. Ohohoh swoon.
Ronaldo is a spotty geek, but the best footballer. I watched a long programme about him and warmed to him alot. He is totally dedicated.

she doesnt now she did in 2006