Pig Latin.

You know I had a funny thought. Switzerland has 3 national languages. What do they speak when they are training? Thankfully I have a cultural ambassador in the motherland that I can email.

Since there are players from the french part (Vogel, Müller, Senderos, Magnin, Grichting, Djourou), from the italian part (Behrami, Lustrinelli) and the “germans” there is a total mix of languages at gettogethers like lunch and spare time. In training and meetings with the team Kuhn speaks mostly high german, so pretty much everybody understands. I dont think Kuhns french and Italian are too good, but enough to also discuss certain things with french and italian players.

Vogel and Magnin speak very well swiss german (I think one of the parents are swiss germans) and Müller also speaks very well high german. There is also a spanish connection since Cabanas (Spain) and Vonlanthen (Columbia) have spanish speaking parents. Coltorti and Barnetta have Italian roots, Behrami (Albania), Smiljanic and Dzemaili have roots in the region of ex-Yugoslavia.

Since a few players play in Engalnd I could imagine that there is also some conversation in English in the Naticamps, since English is a convenient language for all (we chiropractors also talk english only at our swiss meetings as well as companies when they have general assemblies with peolpe from all regions of Switzerland). And last but not least there is Wicky (from the Wallis!) and we hardly understand him when he speaks

Little confusing the whole thing, I hope my list is correct since I dont know the young and new players quiet well yet.