One way that soccer players have been curbing ejections from referee insults for years is by cursing the hell out of them in another language. It’s the benefit of being Senegalese in England, or Czech in Spain. So, after accumulating 15 technical fouls and needing only one to garner a one-game suspension, Los Angeles Lakers’ guard Kobe Bryant resorts to cursing refs in…Serbian.

Bryant has held his tongue, walked the other way or used another, more confusing means to voice his frustrations to officials. “I just cuss them out really bad in Serbian,” Bryant joked. Bryant said he has learned how to swear in the native languages of teammates Vladimir Radmanovic (Serbia), Sasha Vujacic (Slovenia) and Ronny Turiaf (France). “I’ve been cursing in French. French is really cool, because everything sounds good in French.” …

Except tois, which means three, and sounds more like someone is trying to heave a loogie out of their throat. Here, Kobe is cursing in Serbian during a game against Boston last year. He uses “pusi kurac”, which to 99.8% of people reading this blog are unaware it means suck my… kiss? No. Not kiss.

Lakers’ Bryant Is Cursing Refs in Foreign Tongues [Washington Post]
Kobe’s foreign insults [Slam Online]
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