BITESIZE | Sven-Göran Eriksson: How Mancini and Vialli landed me the Sampdoria job
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
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🗓️ 13 April 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Today’s story comes from Sven-Göran Eriksson, who recalls how club president Paolo Mantovani was instructed by his star turns Roberto Mancini and Gianluca Vialli to bring him to Sampdoria.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the big interview bite size. I'm Graham Hunter and in each episode you'll |
| 0:18.8 | hear an elite footballer tell a story that's guaranteed to brighten your day. All of them will come from my podcast, |
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| 0:32.1 | It's venue onin Erriksen Day. Svenis gives us a wonderful |
| 0:36.8 | insight into the relationship between Italian legends Roberto Manchini and General Kaviali at Sampdoria. The ex- England manager tells us not only how the |
| 0:45.9 | gold twins ran the dressing room, but effectively the whole club. You know when I came to Sampthoria I was in Bemfica and they phoned me so I were a private plane to Monaco and I met |
| 1:09.2 | in North Kranov, Mantovani. |
| 1:10.8 | Mantevani, the president, yeah. |
| 1:13.2 | And Vialen Margini. |
| 1:16.0 | He started there and he said, well Mr. he said, I don't really understand football, but these two guys here, he said, they got into the head that they |
| 1:26.1 | want Sven Erikson. So that's why you are here. No way. |
| 1:30.5 | Yeah. So they were a little emissated. |
| 1:34.0 | When you have violi and Manchini saying, we've picked you over every week. |
| 1:37.0 | He's like, where do I say? |
| 1:38.0 | Yeah, I mean. |
| 1:39.0 | So he said, I'm here to take us a coach. |
| 1:42.0 | Well, after the lunch and talking football and talking... |
| 1:46.0 | he said, okay, now we talk money. |
| 1:50.0 | And he said, money in YouTube out. |
| 1:52.0 | He treated them like his own son. |
| 1:53.7 | He treated them like his own son. |
| 1:56.5 | So he took paper and a napkin. |
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