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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

BITESIZE | Pablo Zabaleta: Lionel Messi, Boy and Man

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Sports, Soccer, Football

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Today’s story comes from Pablo Zabaleta, who recalls a shy, skinny Lionel Messi in the Argentina Under-20s dressing room… then he did his talking on the pitch.

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in June.com slash perfect mani 20. Welcome to the big interview bite size.

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I'm Graham Hunter and in each episode you'll hear an elite footballer tell a story that's

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guaranteed to brighten your day.

1:00.5

All of them come from my podcast, The Big Interview with Graham Hunter, which you can find by searching

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on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. I know Jorge, his family, and I think his family, was a massive support for Mercy when they they left Rosario and they went to Barcelona.

1:25.0

I think they had a very hard time at the beginning because you don't know anyone and you're a young lad with a big talent but at the end of a day

1:37.1

your parents are there your family is there with a different language because even if you're in

1:42.0

Spain sometime in Catalonia you go in school

1:44.5

and you know how to speak Catalan and people find it struggling even it's money simple.

1:49.4

So you know a very hard time but they were there I remember the manager or to call you when

1:55.9

well it was punch of a rather than the manager but the first time that we met

2:00.6

messy the manager was talking about him, he was saying,

2:04.7

we are looking to bring a young lad who is planning in Barcelona Academy,

2:10.9

we heard about him, he's good, and we would like to have him with us because we are just thinking

2:18.5

messy to at least three or four weeks with us before we play the tournament and it was

2:27.6

fantastic because we didn't know messy we nobody knew messy at that time because we were playing in between we knew between each other because we were playing in the academies against all the time or even spending three days a week training in Argentina or 80% of the players that were playing in the

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