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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Classic Big Interview: Gaizka Mendieta Part One

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Sports, Soccer, Football

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Here’s another chance to hear my interview with Gaizka Mendieta from season one.

In part one, we hear how as a rookie this exquisite craftsman was regarded merely as an athletic, holding midfielder. Yet Valencia soon realised his full potential, and quickly he had played in two Champions League finals and won UEFA Best Midfielder of the Year twice.

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Terms and conditions apply, C-site for details. You're going back to season 2015, 2016. This is what I had to say about it

0:57.8

back then. It's the big interview, the new one. Icecomb and Dieter.

1:03.3

May 1996 was a pretty pivotal moment for me in my career.

1:06.8

The first time I worked journalistically in the city of Barcelona,

1:10.5

it was the under 21 championships, the semi-finals and final, four teams.

1:15.0

And it turned out that good there they were, the Scotland of Tommy Craig's a manager, Christian

1:21.0

Daly, Stevie Glass from Aberdeen, Jackie McNamara, we weren't quite good enough for France and Italy sides and Spain sides containing the guys on show were unbelievable in that mini tournament in the

1:34.1

Montreal Stadium in Barcelona for France. There were

1:38.2

Vera, Perez, Macalelli, first sight of any of those for me. For Spain there was Raoul, a young Raoul,

1:47.0

18 year old, the youngest boy, a distance in his squad, even to La Pena, who stunned everybody

1:52.1

with his quality that day.

1:54.0

Also a young Fernando Moreientes, others who went on to Star for Spanish clubs.

1:58.4

But maybe it was the eventual winners, Italy, who had seemingly the most star-stered squad.

2:03.8

Gijibufon, Fabio Kanavaro, Francesco Totti, Panucci, Nesta,

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