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Old 07-12-2024, 01:35 AM   #59
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I am loving this interview. I feel like we are really getting to know the human behind the player and what a great personality Sharangovich is.

I love the story about meeting his future wife and how she was the one to ask him out the first time. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but there is still something sweet about that.

I also thought it was interesting that when he joined Dinamo as an 18 year old, he wasn't sure if he should use formal speech around the older players on the team. For those that don't know, Slavic language have formal pronouns and verbs that are used when talking to people older than you, or that have a higher social standing. Very similar to the French "Tu" and "Vous", so not really a foreign concept to Canadians who went through public school. But if you use the wrong one, it could get you off on the wrong foot. Usually if you are unsure, you default to the formal language until you are invited to the informal. A cocky person might go in and just start throwing around the informal language, but it shows how thoughtful he was about the situation he was in, which I can really appreciate.
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