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Glen Williams

Gary Lineker speaks Welsh on BBC's live TV coverage of World Cup

It is well-documented that Gary Lineker is bilingual. After all, the Spanish-speaking former England striker did spend three years in Barcelona during his playing career.

Well, on Wednesday night, the ex-Leicester City, Tottenham and Everton forward tried his hand at a third language: Welsh.

At half-time during the BBC's broadcast of the Belgium v Canada World Cup game, Lineker threw the coverage to BBC presenter Catrin Heledd, who had been at the Wales camp that day and brought all the latest news including a fitness update on Joe Allen and interviews with Harry Wilson and Kieffer Moore.

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