You can learn a language in many ways. Christian eriksen’s boss at Tottenham did it in a very special manner, when he in 2013 left the Spanish Espanyol in order to take over the reins at Southampton.
the Teacher was no less a figure than James Bond!
Or rather: the Singer Adele at full blast in the theme song ’Skyfall’.
Mauricio Pochettino says in a magazine interview, JOE, that it was a turning point for his strenuous trip into the English language, as the teacher fired up during the Adele – which, incidentally, is selverklæret Tottenham-fan.
Adele during a concert in copenhagen, Vega. Probably in English… Photo: Mogens Flindt
As a player and coach had Tottenham manager so far only indulged in Latin sprogstrøg in Argentina, Spain and France, and he was virtually unable to request as much as a cup of coffee in English, when he arrived to the uk south coast.
the Language was a nearly insoluble mystery for Mauricio Pochettino.
He felt quite hopeless during the language tuition, which actually was quite incredibly dull. The worst two hours in his life until then.
– My wife found a language teacher, but the first two hour session… It was so boring. The teacher said: Okay, we’re trying something a little different, let us learn through a song! So that she showed adele’s ’Skyfall’, and it is indeed – as you can probably imagine – pretty tricky. But every single time I hear it now, I always think of then and smiles, says Mauricio Pochettino.
He admits that he was challenged:
– I thought it was impossible. I will never be able to learn the language, says increasing the argentinian in the interview.
Since then, he has however improved considerably and could possibly score an English-character to go in the direction of the 007…
the Shift to the british isles was hard in other areas for Pochettino, who bothered to acclimatize and suffered from insomnia for the first time.
– I was at a hotel in Southampton the night before the first day of training. I was restless and unable to close his eyes. I didn’t know what I should do. The day after I had put up in front of 50 people – including the president – and I could not a word in English. I shook the.
Pochettino switched after a year to Tottenham, Saturday meetings the rivals from Arsenal in a genuine wildcats-derby at Wembley. Although it has gone ahead with the cumbersome language, however, it is not much more than a few weeks ago, Pochettino came curiously off after the victory in Dortmund, when he asked a reporter to repeat his question – but in English.
It was exactly what the journalist had tried…
Champions League – 14. feb. 2019 – at. 17:19 Journalist for a laugh after the CL-victory
