How do teams, players and managers handle the language barrier?

Soccer 101

TSS

Sports, Soccer

4.9 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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What do you do when your coach speaks one language, your center back another, and your striker a third? How do clubs handle language barriers between players and staff? Do teams just designate a couple languages that everyone needs to know? Does everyone just have to learn the GM's language? Are there a bunch of translators on the coaching staff? How do teams make this work?" WE HAVE A YOUTUBE CHANNEL! We're posting all our episodes here! Smash the like and subscribe etc.! JOIN THE TSS+ PATREON! Check out our Patreon, which houses bonus podcasts, access to our exclusive Discord, blog posts, videos, and much more. Become a member today at patreon.com/totalsoccershow!

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody to soccer 101. My name is Taylor Rockwell and with me this week, as always, is Graham Structurally Unsound Ruthven.
0:21.8	Graham, how are we today?
0:24.3	I'm sore, Taylor, I'm sore.
0:25.9	What happened was we spoke about this yesterday in the main feed.
0:28.5	I went to a concert like a young person, thought I was still a young person.
0:32.6	Turns out I'm not a young person and I am paying for that with a sore back today, which was developed at said concert.
0:38.3	And today's episode is going to be about languages and football clubs and language barriers.
0:42.4	It turns out I'm actually speaking my own language now. It sounds a bit like this.
0:46.0	Oh, ah, as I sit down.
0:50.0	The language of the...
0:52.6	You're not even 40. Get out of here.
0:54.5	You're a young buck.
0:55.7	What are you?
0:56.0	Like 35?
0:57.4	33, as Joe would say, basically dead.
0:59.4	Oh, well, yeah.
1:00.2	According to Joe.
1:01.4	When Joe hits 30, it's going to be a rude awakening for him.
1:03.9	He'll have finally finished...
1:05.6	fully developing, I guess, at that point.
1:07.1	Is that...
1:07.4	It's like 25 when Joe thinks that players stop? Yeah, I think so.
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