Local language difficulties have long been a problem for footballers moving abroad. There are plenty of apps and translation tools to help with general phrases and words but nothing to help when it comes to communicating on a football pitch or with your manager, team mates and the fans. Nothing, that was, until the launch of Football Talk.
The app is the brainchild of professional footballer Zesh Rehman, the first British Asian to start a Premier League Match and play in all four professional Leagues in England. He has played over 400 professional career games in four different countries, more than 200 of which in Asia for top clubs in Thailand, Hong Kong and Malaysia. He is currently playing for KC Southern District FC in the Hong Kong Premier League. Football Talk proved to be very popluar in Thailand with Zeshs former Muangthong United team mate at the time, Robbie Fowler, who trialed it and approved of its value to make a difference. It has also been successfully trialed by Michael Mancienne a former team mate at QPR Fc and former Fulham Fc team mate Louis Saha.
Using the app is easy:
-Choose your native language
-Select the language to translate to
-Browse phrases by category or search for specific words
-See how the foreign word is written then play the audio clip to hear it spoken
-Use Football Talk to speak accurately and confidently to team mates, fans and media
The app features a huge amount of phrases, spanning 10 subject categories. These range from technical terminology to the everyday sentences you will need to get by in your new home country.
The app currently supports translations between 9 languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Portugese, Thai, Malay, Mandarin and Cantonese, with plans underway to add more languages and phrases in future. As it stands the app packs in 1000 essential phrases for each of the 6 supported languages, with 6000 audio clips featured. Football Talk is incredible value for money, but the ease at which it helps users adjust to their new team and location is simply invaluable. Struggle no more and download Football Talk today.