BITESIZE | Adam Lallana: Pochettino was like a father to me
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
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🗓️ 20 August 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Today’s story comes from Adam Lallana, who speaks about working under Mauricio Pochettino at Southampton. The Argentine boss was like a second father to Adam, an unparalleled man manager.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the big interview bite size. I'm Graham Hunter and in each episode you'll |
| 0:19.2 | hear an elite footballer tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day. |
| 0:23.7 | All of them come from my podcast, The Big Interview with Graham Hunter, |
| 0:27.6 | which you can find by searching on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:33.0 | We've got lots of socials who supports all the time and Gary Harding wrote into us when he heard |
| 0:43.7 | that we were interviewing you great choice these are good words Adam was a joy to |
| 0:48.9 | watch playing through the leagues at Saints incredible poise and beautiful balance. Pochitino undoubtedly took his play |
| 0:56.4 | to another level. Go and see his goal against Hill City. I'd be keen to know what changed |
| 1:00.8 | to trigger this was a tactical fitness increased self-belief but this |
| 1:04.2 | is the key point here it was amazing to see and as a Saints fan I love this |
| 1:09.4 | phrase I'll always treasure the period where Adam was pulling the strings and shooting us up the leak. |
| 1:15.0 | One of my all-time favourite players. |
| 1:18.0 | Let's not go back and analyze that just for instance. |
| 1:21.0 | That's not a salary slip, it's not a trophy, but it's not satisfying that |
| 1:27.5 | you've made somebody feel like that with what you do for a living? It is extremely satisfied. |
| 1:34.0 | I think he's exactly right in what he says, |
| 1:36.0 | that Pochtino kind of came to the club |
| 1:39.0 | and the bond I struck with him was really, really special, like really special. |
| 1:46.8 | He was like a father to me for the year and a half a work of him. |
| 1:51.2 | And the only sad thing is the period of time wasn't longer that I work |
| 1:55.8 | them for I was captain I was made captain at 24 and I was feeling the pressure of being the captain in terms of just |
| 2:05.6 | bit of weight on my shoulders trying a bit too hard bit too much which is only |
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