Black History Month Special: Thierry Henry
The 2 Robbies
NBC Sports Soccer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You thought the honour of being one of the first two players inducted into Premier League |
| 0:10.0 | Hall of Fame? Where were you when you find out and what kind of feeling did you have when |
| 0:14.8 | it was announced? Well, I was at home. I was like, what? You know, a type of thing because |
| 0:23.1 | that didn't exist. I didn't know. That was, you know, as you know, obviously being |
| 0:26.4 | where you are, all of them is a big thing in America. You know, they're all at one and |
| 0:31.5 | all of fame and all of them speech and entrance and all of that. So, I didn't expect anything |
| 0:36.3 | like that. And I was very proud, proud moment in all fairness. And, you know, you start to |
| 0:42.7 | think about the guys that you played with that made that possible team, fans, coach, you |
| 0:49.8 | know, family, you know, you kind of like and see who played in the league. And you're like, |
| 0:55.7 | wow, you know, to be one of the two first guys in with Alan Shira. I mean, what else? I |
| 1:04.1 | didn't expect it in all fairness. I didn't even think about it, but proud moment, proud |
| 1:09.5 | moment. So, let's go back to the start of the story for a cherry on me, the footballer. |
| 1:16.2 | Where did it really begin? When did you fall in love with football and how old were you |
| 1:19.9 | when you start to realize that this might be a special talent? |
| 1:24.8 | My dad made it happen. My dad made me fall in love with football. My dad made me kick |
| 1:30.9 | my first ball. My dad made me understand the game. The streets developed me into what |
| 1:37.1 | I was and the desire that you need to have, protecting that ball, understanding how to |
| 1:41.9 | get kicked, to protect yourself. And everything that you can get in the street. I think it's |
| 1:47.1 | the best school that you can have. You know, we're very fortunate in the suburb of Paris |
| 1:52.5 | that we have that. That's why you have a lot of guys coming from the suburb of Paris from |
| 1:57.3 | France that are being successful. Anyway, that's a different topic. But my dad was the |
| 2:02.3 | guy that, you know, he loved it. He loved it and he couldn't do it. He will tell you |
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