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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

BITESIZE | Steve McManaman: When Zizou became the King of Europe

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Sports, Soccer, Football

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Today’s story comes from Steve McManaman, who speaks about how Zinedine Zidane’s frustrating start at Real Madrid was quickly forgotten after the 2002 Champions League final win over Bayer Leverkusen.

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1:07.0

You'll hear Steve McMahon, and who speaks about how Zizu endured a frustrating start in the

1:17.0

Bernard Bell. He was tried out in different positions but couldn't quite slot in initially.

1:22.0

Then came that final. The 2002 Champions League win over

1:25.3

Bayer Leverkusen in Glasgow. Nobody ever doubted the great man at Real Madrid after that.

1:37.0

People said to me, I always remember people back then were saying to me, you know, what's it like to play with Zidand? Because at the time we know that Florentino hand-picked Louis and Zizou and we got the the best but they came into the dressing room I

1:44.8

mean Zizu didn't speak the language at the time I mean you you know him he's

1:48.1

he's quite reserved and quite humble and quite quiet and he came into his wrestling room the greatest player in the world, and you know, sat down and didn't say a word and just did his magic on the pitch.

1:58.0

So it was easy to integrate, as I said. He had a really hard time, as he was initially, didn't he?

2:02.8

A really hard time.

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For a few months there was even...

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