Harry Kane, the language barrier and the Lederhosen
New York TimesHarry Kane instinctively put his hand across his mouth as he approached referee Bastian Dankert, but no words came out. The clip of the new Bayern Munich striker’s futile protest against the penalty decision, hampered by his lack of German, went viral after the 3-0 Supercup defeat against RB Leipzig on Saturday. Coach Thomas Tuchel is among the many English speakers Kane will find at Bayern He won’t come up against much of a language barrier beyond that, either. While team meetings are held in German and everyone is encouraged to learn it — Bayern ripped out the simultaneous translation booths then-manager Jurgen Klinsmann had installed at the club HQ in 2009 — current boss Thomas Tuchel, who spoke excellent English during his recent spell in charge at Chelsea, will often repeat key phrases in it and in French during one-to-one talks to ensure that everybody gets the message. Bayern’s Thomas Muller and his wife at Oktoberfest Germans eat their meals at the same times of day people in England do, not at those crazy late-night Spanish or Italian hours.
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