A week ago, the Washington Post’s Steven Goff chronicled the story of D.C. United offering Spanish classes to several of the players who wished to learn a new language. It is normal for MLS teams to offer English classes to Latin American players who need to get up to speed when they enter the league. What is unusual is teams offering language classes to American players or those that already know English but want to gain proficiency in another language. “The priority is for them to learn English,” Russell Canouse, who was in January Camp with the United States this year, made the 18 against Bosnia and Herzegovina but did not appear in the match.
MLS should be proactive in offering foreign language training to players
