Italian is the native language in Italy, spoken by over 93 per cent of the citizens.
Nigerian Victor Osimhen plays his professional football career in the Italian City of Naples where SS Napoli, his club, is located.
The goal machine isn’t fluent nor proficient in the Italian language, but stands out as an intelligent player, and helped his club win the Scudetto, the name for the Italian Serie A title.
With five games remaining in the 2022/23 Serie A Season, Victor Osimhen, who also isn’t fluent in English language, is in pole position to win both the highest goal scorer and Best Player of the Season awards.
Before now, he had failed in Wolfsburg in Germany, Sporting Charleroi in the Belgian League, and made some impacts at Lille in the French Ligue-un.
Osimhen’s success at Napoli can’t be attributed to his quick adaptability to the Italian native language – he can’t even speak it fluently nor an authority in it because I have listened to him a couple of times.
So, language fluency doesn’t represent an intelligence quotient. The most widely used, valid and standardized IQ test don’t assess language fluency. Rather, abstract verbal and nonverbal reasoning, vocabulary knowledge, processing speed and working memory are represented in the full scale intelligence quotient.
