Learning Latin examines megaminds. It’s an extinct, fusional language. It uses two voices, three genders, four verb conjugations, five declensions, six tenses and up to seven noun cases. Lost? You’re among an overwhelming majority. Vanessa Fudalla wasn’t. She had a flair for Latin. She also had a flair for something else: decrypting defences. For a couple of years, she swimmingly combined studying the subject at the University of Leipzig and playing for RB Leipzig. Then came a clock clash. She was forced to choose between them. The ball trumped the books. Why attempt to emulate Dante, Thomas Jefferson, Karl Marx, Oscar Wilde, Tolkien, Winston Churchill, C. S. Lewis and Mark Zuckerberg and speak fluent Latin when you can strive to follow in the footsteps of Silvia Neid, Heidi Mohr, Birgit Prinz, Inka Grings and Alex Popp. Fudalla’s biggest target is, after all, to represent Germany at the FIFA Women’s World Cup™. After scoring two long-range scorchers to seize Leipzig victory on their home debut in the Frauen-Bundesliga last Friday, the 21-year-old chatted to FIFA about her aspirations with club and country.