Classic Big Interview: Pablo Zabaleta
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
4.5 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Here’s another chance to hear my interview with Pablo Zabaleta from season two.
Pablo scored the forgotten (beautiful) goal on one of English football’s most memorable days: when Manchester City won the title in injury time in 2012. We cover a lot in this fascinating chat, starting in 2005 at the Under-20 World Cup, which Argentina won. Zabaleta was captain and a kid called Leo Messi had joined up with the squad...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Ms this Graham. Welcome to a classic big interview. This time we go back to season 1617. |
| 0:21.0 | This is what I had to say about it back then. |
| 0:25.0 | Yes, yes, it's the big interview again and as a special treat. |
| 0:30.0 | We brought you not on a Premier League football but a Champions League football. |
| 0:34.0 | Pablo Zabiletta of Manchester City who'll be going up against Barcelona again this week. |
| 0:40.0 | We're talking to an Olympian, a guy who goes for burgers with Kobe Bryant, Olympic gold medalist, Pablo Zabaletta, but somebody who'll also explain to us that life was hard for him right from the very earliest stages. |
| 0:54.4 | He's had to struggle, struggle with emotional maturity, physical maturity |
| 0:58.6 | from his earliest days when his mother died |
| 1:01.2 | when he was very young and he had to move to Buenos Aires but |
| 1:03.8 | along the way that struggle this sport of football that we love has brought |
| 1:09.3 | to enjoy. Imagine being an Argentinian who's lost in the World Youth Championship two years before |
| 1:15.8 | and suddenly discovers that messy exists and he's very good and he's Argentinian. |
| 1:22.8 | Pablo tells us about that sensation. |
| 1:25.7 | He also tells us about one of the great Premier League moments ever. |
| 1:30.7 | Do you remember Kunaguero, Martin Tyler shouting his name? |
| 1:34.0 | Well, Pabel scored the forgotten goal that day, the beautiful goal that day. |
| 1:38.0 | We're going to hear about the reason that Andresiniesta raised his Spain Jersey in the 2010 World Cup to reveal a homage to Danny Harkey because Pablo Zovaletta was Danny Harkey's friend and teammate. |
| 1:52.0 | But we start with Pablo happily describing that 2005 World Youth Championship, |
| 1:58.4 | the semi-final in New Tract against Brazil. And he's about to score a very important and very beautiful goal and that's what you'll hear now. I'm really impressed, Pablo Zavolletta that you're willing to welcome me twice to Manchester |
| 2:24.0 | after the first time so many years ago when it was your English that got us through because |
| 2:28.8 | my Spanish was so poor. It's not that was yeah, no So thank you and we're back. We're back to talk to you as a as a footballer of great achievement |
| 2:40.4 | We want to do something we've never done before in an audio podcast and begin by showing you something. |
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