Champions League winner Antonio Nunez on 'beautiful' season with Liverpool, Rafa Benitez and 'complete player' Steven Gerrard

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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4.4 • 1000 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Our Liverpool FC correspondent James Pearce tracked down a member of the Reds' 2005 Champions League-winning squad for our latest podcast - and what a cracker it is.Antonio Nunez was back in Liverpool at the weekend for the first time since leaving Anfield soon after that unforgettable night in Istanbul - he travelled all the way from Spain by car - and our man caught up with the winger for a very interesting chat.Nunez explains what he's up to, now that he's hung up his boots, the different way he is planning to stay in football, and what it was like to appear alongside players he idolised at his boyhood club Real Madrid, like Zinedine Zidane, Luis Figo, Ronaldo, Raul and Roberto Carlos.Nunez swapped Madrid for Merseyside in the summer of 2004 when he became one of four Spanish signings made by new manager Rafa Benitez.What followed next was what Nunez calls the 'most beautiful season I lived' and, from those memorable Champions League nights at Anfield against Olympiakos, Juventus and Chelsea, to the final against AC Milan and how Benitez's calmness instigated THAT second-half comeback, he takes Reds fans on a wonderful trip down Memory Lane.Nunez also talks his unique place in Liverpool's history, why Steven Gerrard was the most 'complete player' he played with during his career, and what he makes of Jurgen Klopp's current crop. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.
0:08.0	Well, hello and welcome to a very special edition of the Blood Red Podcast.
0:12.9	I'm James Pierce and I'm delighted to say today I'm joined by a member of Raffa Benitez's
0:17.7	squad who famously won the Champions League for the club in Istanbul.
0:21.7	That miracle in 2005 Antonio Nunez
0:25.8	Antonio how are you? I'm fine thank you. It's great to see you back in
0:29.8	Liverpool you were just telling me first time back here since you left the club 13 years ago
0:34.1	so it's been a while. Yes that's right it's the first time since I left 13 years ago
0:39.4	that I come to Liverpool I'm really happy to be here again to see how everything is, how everything
0:47.6	changed in the city and well, just to also to see a great game today.
0:55.0	And you were telling me you're on a bit of a road trip.
0:58.0	You've been driving around, you drove over obviously from Spain, you've been in Ireland.
1:01.0	Just obviously since you retired retired is this a chance to
1:03.7	catch up with old friends across Europe you made during your career?
1:06.7	Yes now I have time I quit football this last summer so now I have this this time that I didn't have before to
1:16.8	travel to I don't know to do this kind of thing so I'm just visiting some friends as you said in Ireland
1:26.8	also here in Liverpool we'll probably go to London to see some friends.
1:34.0	So just enjoying the free time.
1:39.0	Obviously, Hualver was your last club, wasn't it?
1:41.0	Was that last year you retired?
1:43.2	Yes, a recreational club.
1:45.2	Wueva.
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