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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat
I am a french Quebecker and to us the term "grenouille" is as offensive as the term N****R to African-Americans.
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That I didn't know and I apologize if I have offended you or other Franco-Canadiens. I have only been to BC and the people there used the term in a funny, teasing way to describe French speakers - same as we do here in Europe. So my intention was to tease but not to insult.
However I do not apologize for finding this "issue" laughable, especially when the guy used to be the co-trainer. Mixing sports and politics is ridiculous and I can't see how the identity of the French-speakers gets destroyed by this event.
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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat
At least we proved we can kick your ass in WW2.
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I didn't know that the hockey world cup is called WW2 nowadays...
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Originally Posted by Randomizer
^ Hey, chill Bilge_Rat and imagine how Vienna would scream if his LA Dodger's hired a manager who spoke no "American" at all.
Or if Hertha BSC's new head coach spoke only Turkish just for Penguin.
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Funny that you mention it, Hertha had a coach from the French part of Switzerland some time ago. The only Turkish coach in the Bundesliga worked for Hamburg though.
Our former national coach, Berti Vogts currently works for the national team of Azerbaijan and he sure can't speak Azerbaijani - and only broken English.
The most popular coach (and one of the most successful too) of my home team, Fortuna Düsseldorf, was of Bosnian origin, he also spoke only little German when he started, got better by the time though. Even the brown fraction in the stadium put the team success before the nationality or language of the coach. They offended black players but never made chants against Ristic. At least that's what I think, as I do not tend to hang out with them, but with buddies in supporter groups who ask those people politely to stop
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Here is a list of foreign coaches who had worked for German 1st league clubs:
http://www.transfermarkt.de/en/1-bun...bewerb_L1.html - many of them barely spoke German - not to mention the Swiss cheesemunchers and the Austrian canyoncrappers who speak an incomprehensible dialect.
A legendary press conference of Bayern München's Italian coach Trappatoni in the 90s where he had an outburst is still legendary and some of his expressions made it into German popular culture.