{"id":296405,"date":"2023-11-08T01:25:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T01:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=296405"},"modified":"2023-11-08T01:25:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T01:25:37","slug":"watch-as-jamie-carragher-struggles-to-pronounce-olivier-girouds-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/soccer\/watch-as-jamie-carragher-struggles-to-pronounce-olivier-girouds-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch as Jamie Carragher struggles to pronounce Olivier Giroud&apos;s name"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Jamie Carragher is left red-faced as he hilariously struggles to pronounce Olivier Giroud&#8217;s name during CBS interview with the AC Milan striker<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Carragher struggled with saying the Frenchman&#8217;s name after his team&#8217;s win\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Giroud scored the game-winning goal in a 2-1 victory for Milan over PSG<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>DailyMail.com provides all the latest international sports news\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On Tuesday&#8217;s post-game coverage of the UEFA Champions League, the CBS Sports panel resorted to one of its oldest tricks: making fun of Jamie Carragher&#8217;s inability to pronounce things without his Scouse accent.<\/p>\n<p>While the desk was interviewing AC Milan striker Olivier Giroud after his side&#8217;s 2-1 win over Paris St. Germain, host Kate Abdo asked the Frenchman if he was annoyed by Carragher&#8217;s struggles when it came to pronouncing his name correctly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;No, they&#8217;ve been calling me [oh-liv-e-air jeer-ood] nine years in the Premier League like that,&#8217; Giroud told the desk.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by Carragher to give him an &#8216;education&#8217; on how to pronounce it, the striker responded with the French way to say his name.<\/p>\n<p>Abdo, who speaks French, said it back near perfectly as Micah Richards pronounced it &#8216;a bit too much on the &#8220;R&#8221;&#8216; by Giroud&#8217;s assessment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/00\/77532823-12723067-image-a-2_1699404547985.jpg\" height=\"450\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>CBS Sports&#8217; Jamie Carragher had a particularly hard time pronouncing Olivier Giroud&#8217;s name<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/00\/77532811-12723067-image-a-1_1699404542509.jpg\" height=\"402\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Giroud was asked if he was annoyed by Carragher&#8217;s inability to properly pronounce his name<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/00\/77532817-12723067-image-a-3_1699404550002.jpg\" height=\"395\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Micah Richards used pages of notes to cover up his face in embarrassment of his co-host\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/08\/00\/77532825-12723067-image-a-4_1699404553828.jpg\" height=\"394\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Kate Abdo, who pronounced Giroud&#8217;s name perfectly, laughed while covering up her face<\/p>\n<p>Then it was Carragher&#8217;s turn. After an awkward pause where the former Liverpool defender asked if he really had to say it, he called the striker &#8216;Olivia&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Carragher&#8217;s first attempt to pronounce the French forward&#8217;s name sounded like he used an &#8220;L&#8221; in Giroud&#8217;s last name.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Not jee-lou, it&#8217;s jee-rhou,&#8217; the Milan man said. To Carragher, that sounded like a &#8216;W&#8217; sound, leading to more confusion when he said &#8216;jee-woo&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The desk couldn&#8217;t control themselves any longer &#8211; with Abdo and Richards covering their faces.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Giroud scored in the 50th minute of the match to give Milan the advantage over PSG &#8211; a crucial three points as they sit third in Group F.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12723067\/Faux-pas-Jamie-Carragher-left-red-faced-hilariously-struggles-pronounce-Olivier-Girouds-live-CBS-interview-AC-Milan-striker.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Carragher is left red-faced as he hilariously struggles to pronounce Olivier Giroud&#8217;s name during CBS interview with the AC Milan striker Carragher struggled with saying the Frenchman&#8217;s name after his team&#8217;s win\u00a0 Giroud scored the game-winning goal in a 2-1 victory for Milan over PSG DailyMail.com provides all the latest international sports news\u00a0 On&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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