This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

Hello and welcome back to the Bud Red Podcast. I'm delighted to welcome a very special

guest to this episode this afternoon. We're joined by former Liverpool and

current Nance midfielder Pedro Chiavea.

Pedro, how are you?

I'm good, thank you.

Yeah, very good, thank you.

First of all, thank you very much for taking time out of you.

I imagine a very busy pre-season schedule to join us.

How's pre-season going at the minute?

It's been good.

We played a couple of days ago

our fresh pre-season game.

Good to get minutes. And just know moving forward we go our first game of the

season in two weeks so it's gonna come quick and we will be ready.

Lovely. I just kind of wanted to, obviously, to start back.

I just want to go back to your childhood then.

So you grew up in Spain, obviously in Valencia and you joined Valencia's Academy at the age of seven I believe.

Just talk us through then your early memories of football and

obviously joining Valencia.

It was that the team you supported as a young lad and how was that you know

process of kind of being picked up by a balance year?

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