Classic Big Interview: Ramon Calderon Part Two
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
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🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Here’s another chance to hear my interview with Ramon Calderon from season two.
In part two, Ramon describes some historic deals, not least Cristiano Ronaldo’s high-profile arrival from Manchester United. We’ll hear about Florentino Perez, the man Ramon succeeded and who would return to power at the Bernabeu. There’s also David Beckham – the consummate professional and Ramon’s golden boy.
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| 0:20.0 | Hello, this is Graham. Welcome to a classic big interview. This time we go back to season 1617. This is what I had to say about it back then. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome back to the big interview for part two with Ramon Calderon. |
| 0:28.0 | If you've not heard part one, it's not obligatory by law, but it is part of your recommended five a day allowance. |
| 0:36.2 | This chapter deals with Ramon's life inside the club he loves. |
| 0:39.1 | How he became nominated president, how his style differs from that of Florentino Perez, the President who |
| 0:44.8 | give us lost Galactiocos and the current incarnation of Madrid, whose success |
| 0:49.3 | Cathar on Wunders at given the chaos that led to Zudan's appointment. |
| 0:53.0 | There's great insider knowledge here about the deal's done and others not quite done. |
| 0:57.0 | You may leave with a new appreciation of David Beckhamam, Lord Beckham, is it now? |
| 1:01.0 | And you'll want to go to YouTube to check at the finale of the 2007 |
| 1:04.6 | the League of a season. Okay, Ramos, let's go. One of the things then that we should do is because we're talking to you because you took your love of Real Madrid into something active and you became president. |
| 1:27.0 | Why did you want to become president? |
| 1:30.0 | I didn't really, it was in something no no I mean I mean it's not something you prepare |
| 1:36.4 | you are prepared for you start little by little first being a fun follower |
| 1:41.9 | being a member when I came to Madrid to work as a lawyer to open my own office in the 70s, |
| 1:49.0 | I became a member. It wasn't easy at the time it is not now. Then I started to go to the matches, |
| 1:57.0 | to the Bernabe Stadium, I started to be a participant in the life of the club in many senses going to the general |
| 2:04.7 | assemblies and just being in touch with the directors and so on and I went to on elections as I run as Vice President we didn't win those elections. |
| 2:20.0 | And then in 2000 I helped the current president to be where he is now. |
| 2:28.0 | And then I started with him for six years when he decided to step down. I wasn't really |
| 2:36.6 | interested in that. It's a problem. We can talk about that. Many different |
| 2:42.0 | impressions you have been in that position you have to |
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