Really interesting talk at my school today - careers talk to year 8.

All about language within sport - was basically trying to show them how having a 2nd language is a good thing etc.

But one of the things it showed was how many of the really top class people involved in football are top class lingustically as well.

Ronaldo - 6 language.
Mbappe - 6 languages - learnging his 7th, aiming for fluency in 8.
De Bruyne - 5 langauages.
Saleh - 4 languages.
Zlatan - 4 langauges.

Jose - 5 languages.
Ancellotti - 5 languages.
Pep - 4 languages.

etc. etc.

Was quite impressive.

The guy giving the talk works for a company that has set up a language app so that coaches can put things in and it produces it in whatever language they want so they can communicate with players appropriately.

I'm doing a dis-service to how good it was with the above but hopefully you get the idea.