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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:35 am Post subject: English, THE Official Language of Football |
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English, the common language for World Cup referees
English has become the official language of football, at least for the 44 referees hoping to officiate at the 2006 World Cup. For the first time, referees and their assistants will have to show proficiency in written and spoken English if they are to stand a chance of making the cut for the sport's showpiece tournament, beginning on June 9.... "They are a team and one language must be predominant. We've opted for English. The referees are going to have to speak and write in English. This is going to promote team spirit."
By Kevin Fylan, YAHOO! Sports (March 21, 2006)
http://sports.yahoo.com/wcs/news?slug=reu-worldrefereeslanguage&prov=reuters&type=lgns |
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ed4444
Joined: 12 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:24 am Post subject: |
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What has this got to do with Korea?
RR must be scraping the bottom of the barrell for negative stats about the ROK thesedays. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:42 am Post subject: |
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I believe he's suggesting that Korean referees may not make the cut because, as we know, and as RR has pointed out before, Korea ranks 110th in the world in English expertise.
Don't get RR wrong. ALL his posts condemn Korea if you look hard enough.
And often he's right (in a factual way). |
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