Classic Big Interview: Christian Fuchs
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
4.5 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Here’s another chance to hear my interview with Christian Fuchs from season four.
Back then, Christian was still at Leicester, where he had won the Premier League against all the odds. Nigel Pearson signed him for the Foxes from Schalke – and was then promptly sacked. But the left-back fitted in with Claudio Ranieri’s plans. Ranieri made every player feel special, which was key to their amazing success. Christian describes watching Tottenham drawing with Chelsea – which clinched the title for Leicester – as an incredibly exhausting experience. He had never quite believed that they would become champions.
You’ll also hear about playing alongside the great Raul at Schalke, how Mattersburg captain Dietmar Kuhbauer toughened a young Christian up, and how a loan spell at Mainz under coaching genius Thomas Tuchel was a seminal experience.
Enjoy,
Graham
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a classic big interview. This is where we dig into the vaults and choose an |
| 0:17.8 | episode from earlier in our shows. This time we've gone all the way back to |
| 0:22.3 | season 2018-19 and opted for one of our and |
| 0:26.4 | your absolute favorites. This is what I had to say about it back then. Do enjoy. And now a champion of England. |
| 0:37.0 | An unlikely one, but nonetheless, |
| 0:42.0 | somebody with a Premier League winner's medal. |
| 0:44.9 | The interviews are coming thick and fast but so are the matches which is why you might hear some |
| 0:48.8 | background noise as I record this intro. I'm standing outside the mighty Santiago Bernabeo just ahead of |
| 0:55.2 | commentating on drama digregens katafi. Speaking of this club this guest |
| 1:00.4 | Christian folks of Leicester and Austria, that's his name. |
| 1:05.0 | Talks about the joy working with the realm of legend Raoul at Shalka. |
| 1:09.0 | Talks about the horrific experience of being bullied by his all-time hero, Deidmar Kubauer, when they worked together, |
| 1:17.6 | initially having queued up to get his autograph, joined the same club, played together, |
| 1:21.7 | and Kubauer went through him every day at training. |
| 1:25.2 | A brutal lesson, but a theme that comes up again and again in the big interview, the modern game doesn't |
| 1:29.6 | allow for treatment like that. |
| 1:31.7 | But is it sometimes the making of a man and finally why |
| 1:35.9 | Raniari when the title of Lester was it simply by making all its players feel |
| 1:40.1 | super special onward Onward Christian folks, soldiers. |
| 1:44.0 | The big interview has had many special experiences, but to go watch Austrian football legend Christian folks. |
| 1:57.0 | Conducting the crowd against Valencia because the most important part of his preseason friendly against Valencia was the love affair with the crowd that was there. |
| 2:07.0 | But here we are in his manner in Leicester talking about what made you so special. |
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