Bukayo Saka - The Football Interview

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🗓️ 22 November 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s edition of the Football Interview, Kelly Somers speaks to the Arsenal and England forward Bukayo Saka. They discuss growing up and breaking into the Arsenal side, as well as his Nigerian heritage. Plus, he speaks about life away from football and his new-found love for coffee.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:07.5	This winter, cricket's oldest rivalry is reignited.
0:15.0	England and Australia do battle to compete for the ashes.
0:20.8	That is extraordinary.
0:23.1	Hear live ball by ball commentary on Five Sports Extra.
0:27.4	And get analysis and reaction of every day's play with the Test Match Special podcast.
0:32.9	The Stamps out of the ground.
0:34.4	Test match special at the Ashes.
0:37.3	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:40.7	The Football Interview on the Football Daily podcast.
0:44.9	I'm Kelly Summers and this season I'll be interviewing some of the biggest names in football,
0:49.5	asking them the questions they don't normally get asked as I try and find out more about the person behind the player.
0:55.7	The first half will be on football, the second on their life away from the pitch.
0:59.4	This isn't just any interview, this is the football interview.
1:02.6	And this week I'm joined by someone who is living his boyhood dream.
1:06.4	He's grown up supporting Arsenal
1:07.7	and now he is one of their key players.
1:09.9	It's Bakai Osaka.
1:28.9	Thank you. up supporting Arsenal and now he is one of their key players. It's Bukai Osaka. Bukai Osaka, it's good to see your smiling face once again. Let's try and get to know you a little bit better. We'll start with the football.
1:30.5	Why football?
1:31.7	Football is happiness to me.
1:33.5	So from the moment I realized that it existed, you know, it was what I wanted to do.
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