What a load of rubbish
My daughter is fluent in 5 languages and can converse in 3 others.
She hasn't a clue about football.
Language is beneficial but the likes of Pep would be great even if he only spoke his native tongue.
I still haven't a clue what Ferguson says at the best of times but he didn't do too badly with players from several countries outside of the UK.
Pep"s English isn't the best and after listening to him for 9 years I still struggle during some of his interviews.
Yes, but your daughter is not Ferguson.
Ferguson is who has to speak those languages, not your daughter, in this case.
We talked about the players Ferguson could have developed if he spoke languages.
Obviously many of them were able to develop despite the language, others could not, and largely due to that.
Diego Forlan is a great exemple, or best exemple.
Cultural closeness helps in any relationship.
I work with English tourists here in Barcelona, all my life. I never studied English, the little beat I know I learned from the English tourists who had drinks at the nightclub where I worked.
When someone doesn't understand them, their face turns into disappointment, they think you're an idiot, and they often leave the place without consuming.
When they talk to me, who am a 5 speaking English on the 0/10 scale, they see me as a salvation given that few people speak it in Spain. And they even think "well, at least we have this fucking shit, which is 'something'... we'll just have to make do with this."
When they find an employee who REALLY DOES speak English very well, who actually speaks it perfectly, their feeling of comfort increases much more.
And what we are talking about is the same. Languages spoken by a coach in this globalized football, improves the results he will get from their players.
