If you watch the English, Italian, French or Spanish leagues then you know how all the football clubs comprise of players from every country you can think of. Some of these players don’t even know a word of English. Same thing for the coaches and for the referees. So how exactly do they communicate during training sessions and more importantly during official matches? I see the sometimes arguing over a foul or a yellow card so how?
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In my rec league I’ve witnessed non-english speaking players argue with referees in their own language despite the referees having no clue what they’re saying.
It’s actually pretty funny.
Normally they have a basic (football) working knowledge of English so cross, pass, mine etc. When English players go to Spain etc. they may have a translator for the first few weeks till they pick up enough Spanish or whatever.
The communication is nearly always aggressive and argumentative and you don’t need to understand them to know they are trying to argue with the referee’s decision.
> Some of these players don’t even know a word of English
I think you are wrong there. They may not speak well, but they have some basics. Or if it’s not English, they will have another common language with the team (the captain should speak English though, and he is the only one who is supposed to talk with the referees)
I had heard once that referees were given a few derogatory terms/phrases in some of the different languages so they’d know what a player may be saying to them
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