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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Andrea Orlandi: Ronaldinho and Rondos at Barca

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Last season, our Socios at patreon.com/grahamhunter got an exclusive interview with Andrea Orlandi. For the first time, here’s the full episode.

In part one you’ll hear about how this elegant winger perfected his talents at Barcelona B by observing and training with the likes of Ronaldinho, Iniesta and Busquets. The young Busquets was nicknamed ‘Crouch’ because he was tall and skinny; he had to work so hard. Iniesta was quicker than people realise, with incredible acceleration; he never gave the ball away. And Ronaldinho could have been the greatest of all time; physically so strong but with superhuman instincts and skills.

At Barca B Andrea was comfortable with the rondos training drills. You had to be – it wasn’t for fun, it encompassed the way Barcelona play. To this day he can describe precisely how he kicks a football, an ability which explains why he is such an engaging analyst of the game.

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for ESPN. And what's more more you'll be supporting us you'll be keeping this

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independent podcast on the road thank you Even if you never watched Andrea or Landy play, even if you're not a big Barcelona or Swansea or Brighton fan,

1:31.6

even if you don't follow Italian second division football or

1:35.1

Indian football Andrea Orlandi is somebody I've been working with in Lalega

1:38.6

Television recently and he's extraordinary. He's easily one of the best television analysts of football I've ever worked with or

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listened to and what's more he shared addressing with

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Leo Massey, Chavi, Iniesta, Ronaldino you going to love Andrea Orlandi because he's exceptional about explaining

1:56.7

the beauty of football, a life in football, and he speaks better English than what I do.

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