BITESIZE | Michael Laudrup: Johan Cruyff and Me
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
4.5 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Today’s story comes from Michael Laudrup, who reveals how crucial Johan Cruyff was to his development while playing under him Barcelona, a man he says was a genius in many ways, but specifically at conveying his message in simple terms.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the big interview bite size. I'm Graham Hunter and in each episode |
| 0:18.8 | you'll hear an elite footballer tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day. |
| 0:24.0 | All of them will come from my podcast, The Big Interview with Graham Hunter, |
| 0:28.0 | which you can find by searching on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:33.0 | I come to Bachelona with a |
| 0:39.0 | with grieve. |
| 0:40.0 | I come to to Barcelona with Grove and then suddenly we start to play not completely like the Milan |
| 0:50.2 | of Shaki because they had a lot of with pressing and all that and but we did not have that in in in the dream team that was something who came |
| 1:00.4 | Barcelona but I think especially with Guadiola yes with that pressing as well we did not have that in |
| 1:08.4 | with with our team here in in Barcelona and not have it in Madrid either. But we had that to keep the ball and that was that gives you |
| 1:16.7 | it's it's I think it's obvious if you in 90 minutes you only have one ball on the |
| 1:20.9 | pitch if you had the ball 60 minutes and every |
| 1:26.7 | player I don't know I'm the statistic but every play the maximum what is it three |
| 1:31.0 | minutes you have the you can have the ball yeah so you really have to |
| 1:34.8 | decide do well in those three minutes but if you have a six there are more chances that I can |
| 1:39.6 | get the ball in the right areas so I can do my play and that was what what happened here |
| 1:46.8 | when I came to Spain first to especially with the Barcelona, that it was a different kind of of play who gave me the possibility to make that transition for what I already had of quality to add something new. |
| 2:07.8 | What kind of teacher was he because like he's he even from the first time I ever saw him which was in early 70s on television and I acts playing we didn't get much televised but well we're similar ages although you look a little bit younger unfortunately |
| 2:21.1 | But nonetheless we watched similar things |
| 2:23.6 | and you didn't get a lot of European football on your television so when the |
| 2:27.0 | European final comes on and it's IX Panathoniacas or IX Inter or whatever I saw this |
| 2:32.4 | flipping ballet dancer on the screen moving differently, looking differently, elegant, but also in periods. So it struck me, right? But also I met him a lot, so I'm not stupid about him. He could be brash, he could be rude, |
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