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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

BITESIZE | Bruno Lage: The Benfica Talent Conveyor Belt

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Sports, Soccer, Football

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Today’s story comes from coach Bruno Lage, who tells about his time at Benfica and how the club made some drastic changes in 2004 that would eventually lead to it becoming a conveyor belt for some of Portugal's top young talent: Bernardo Silva, Ruben Dias, Renato Sanches, to name just a few.

Listen to the original full episodes:

Bruno Lage: 'Ederson, Rúben Dias, Bernardo... Benfica was a machine' - The Big Interview with Graham Hunter | Acast

Bruno Lage: 'I try to be the coolest guy in the world' - The Big Interview with Graham Hunter | Acast



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0:51.5

you'll hear an elite footballer tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day.

0:56.4

All of them will come from my podcast, The Big Interview with Graham Hunter,

1:00.3

which you can find by searching on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:07.0

In 2004, Befeikha tried to change a little bit this sport policy, So that period, big confusion in the club. And the main point is first

1:30.9

build a new stadium, after build a new academy, create a department to work with the same

1:40.6

philosophy and then everything started in 2004 comes a new director and he wants to bring young people with motivation to work and what happened like that.

1:57.0

I was 27 at that time a lot of people and now they are also managers and they do a lot of things now in the professional level.

2:10.0

Everyone we start there. Everyone we start there recruitment it was fundamental we organize everything and after after 10 years, so 2004, 2014, we start to work with that generation.

2:30.3

So if you, most of these names names they born in 94 so in 2004 most of them would start

2:38.7

working with me with 10 years and and they work most of them work for five years with me two or three years with

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