BITESIZE | Ilkay Gundogan: Dortmund’s Champions League Nearly Men
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
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🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Today’s story comes from Ilkay Gundogan, who describes Borussia Dortmund’s epic run in the 2013 Champions League and how he doesn’t have any regrets about losing out to Bayern Munich in the final.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the big interview bite size. I'm Graham Hunter and in each episode |
| 0:19.9 | you'll hear an elite football or tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day. |
| 0:25.0 | All of them will come from my podcast, The Big Interview with Graham Hunter, |
| 0:29.0 | which you can find by searching on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. I remember that first season that I was that I was playing in the Champions |
| 0:43.4 | League with that really good Dortmund site I mean we had some really talented boys in |
| 0:50.2 | our team and everyone was expecting us to do well maybe surprisingly to to |
| 0:57.1 | proceed quite far and probably it was for 95, maybe for all of us, our first Champions Six season ever. |
| 1:07.0 | And it just hit us like a bus, I guess, you you know it was so so difficult even though we were really |
| 1:16.7 | looking forward to it it was so difficult to expect something if that makes sense. We didn't we |
| 1:26.0 | didn't really know what was coming, what to expect, how to deal with it. So it was |
| 1:31.2 | a completely new new experience for us, a completely new situation. |
| 1:37.9 | And as it is sometimes in life, you face a new challenge and sometimes you might do really well in the beginning and then maybe I don't know |
| 1:50.2 | having problems afterwards or you struggle straight away and you still need a bit time to adapt, to adapt to the challenge itself, you know, to adapt yourself to it. So we did really bad in the beginning. We did really bad in our first |
| 2:08.4 | championship season with Dortmund and I don't think we can blame us because at the end of the day I don't think that we should regret anything. |
| 2:20.0 | It was just we were just not ready to face these European teams even though they were maybe on the same level as us |
| 2:29.6 | But sometimes that's the case. Sometimes you need experience. |
| 2:33.0 | Sometimes you need to smell, to feel, |
| 2:36.4 | you know how it's how it is to be on the pitch, |
| 2:38.8 | you know, playing in that competition, playing |
| 2:41.4 | flying away, staying over a couple of nights somewhere else, playing in the evening in front of crowds that are just incredible, you know, and stadiums that are full of emotions. |
| 2:55.0 | So it was a new new completely new experience and I guess we we really had to adapt and we really had to go through this frustration of not doing well in the first |
| 3:08.2 | championship season we had and as it turned out the season after it was probably necessary as well. |
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