Manuel Neuer is smart?

A couple footballers are just hard to judge, Boateng and Özil, for example, don't sound that smart because of their accents and probably education, doesn't mean they're dumb, as Serge pointed out.

Lahm, Müller and Mertesacker seem genuinely smart, when they give interviews, they don't just repeat talking points, but are actually able to give proper responses to the questions.
Khedira as well, those are the guys where you don't feel that they had to memorize their answers, but actually understand what they're saying.

Edit: BTW I think Schweinsteiger is pretty smart as well, but he's hot-headed and not the intellectual type.

Ozil actually went to the same "high school" as Neuer...