As adept as he is at finding the back of the net, it’s a well known fact that Chelsea’s Diego Costa isn’t the best when it comes to speaking English.
Having moved to Chelsea from Atletico Madrid three years ago, footage of the Brazilian born-Spanish international attempting to speak the local lingo in London has been incredibly rare. Stuff like this is all we have to go at…
https://youtu.be/wBV7_U-1GGc
Still, that’s not to say that communicating in English is completely above the man. An example of this came midway through the second half of Chelsea’s FA Cup quarter final with Manchester United on Monday evening.
Seconds after narrowly avoiding a potentially career-ending injury when Marcos Rojo stepped on his big toe, Costa miraculously picked himself up from the floor. With the 28-year-old unhappy that such a dangerous challenge had gone unpunished by the officials, the camera fixed on his face as he demonstrated his ability to speak at least three English words.
hdsportsclips: "F*ck off mate, f*ck off" -Diego Costa Fox Sport… FA Cup Soccer: Chelsea vs.… https://t.co/PIIRKH1fhm pic.twitter.com/GlOTePRYue
— FanSportsClips (@FanSportsClips) March 13, 2017
For those of you that aren’t the best at lip reading, that was: “Fuck off mate. Fuck off.”
Plenty of viewers were delighted to see that the striker had expanded his English vocabulary.
https://twitter.com/sadafsagher/status/841396950247362560
Nothing wrong with Diego Costa's English …. horrible snide individual
— Russell Holdsworth (@russholdsworth) March 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/dalrsc1/status/841396580171276290
https://twitter.com/HisNameIsTommyB/status/841396549301219328
'Fuck' and 'off' are the only words Costa knows in English.
— amy 🇵🇸 (@CFC_Amy90) March 13, 2017
Chelsea did enough to see off the ten men of Manchester United with N’Golo Kante’s second half goal enough to see them reach Wembley.
