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MLS: Javier Hernandez retirement comments lost in translation

Language is a crazy thing. One word can change the entire tone of a message. Even the intonation of the same word can make it mean completely different things. The complexity of language, especially when translating between different languages, was on display when a video of Javier Hernandez showed him using the word ‘retirement’ in regards to coming to Major League Soccer.

Hernandez posted a video to his YouTube channel in which he was on the phone to his father, explaining the impending move to the Los Angeles Galaxy that had been widely reported in the previous days and was to be made official later that day.