BITESIZE | Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink: The anatomy of a front two
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
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🗓️ 14 February 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Today’s story comes from Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, who explains how his prolific scoring record depended on having a partner with a different, more technical skillset to his.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the big interview bite size. I'm Graham Hunter and in each episode |
| 0:19.2 | you'll hear an elite footballer tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day. |
| 0:24.4 | All of them will come from my podcast, the big interview with Graham Hunter, |
| 0:28.4 | which you can find by searching on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Today reminds me of a |
| 0:35.2 | Cracker with Jimmy Floyd Hasselbank, X of Holland, |
| 0:38.8 | Ex of Chelsea, he's good at breaking down what makes a great forward partnership, the type of striker, a striker like |
| 0:47.0 | him needs, and how he did exactly what he did. Break down the one of the best striking partnerships that I've seen that you've worked in and I dare I had the good fortune to meet and to know a little bit in Busselana as he won trophies there and came to |
| 1:09.4 | under Riker came to bus on and I said quickly after two three months said to Riker and we're not working hard |
| 1:14.2 | enough in the training ground. |
| 1:15.2 | He said that. |
| 1:16.2 | Retrospectively why did the partnership work so well? |
| 1:19.9 | Because he could do something that I could not do and I could do something that he could not do. |
| 1:25.0 | You know? |
| 1:27.0 | Can you define them? |
| 1:28.0 | Either is a player in the ball, in the ball, |
| 1:32.0 | turning out, passing, always finding a pass, reading the game, need players to make |
| 1:39.4 | space for him, that kind of player, technically very understandable and knowing two steps ahead. |
| 1:47.0 | I was not a technical player. |
| 1:48.6 | I knew that I was not a technical player, you know, I was not a Jaffran Kossola, I was not a jump from Kosovo, I was not a |
| 1:53.4 | Balderon, I was not, I needed a Valderon, I needed a Valderon, I needed a Valderon, |
| 1:59.0 | I needed an Ida. That's why when I was playing with Valeron I scored 30 odd goals. |
| 2:05.0 | He was a big factor. |
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