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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Coming soon: Thomas Hitzlsperger

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2016

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

On Thursday you'll be able to listen to part one of The Big Interview with Thomas Hitzlsperger. As a brief preview, here's part of the incredible story of how he left Bavaria for Brum. Part two will follow up on Saturday.

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0:00.0

I went to the Under17 World Cup in New Zealand, an agent talked to me and he handed out his business cards and said well if you

0:14.8

guys are interested in that trial in England I'm pretty well connected and I thought yeah

0:19.0

it's interesting because I've been there at Bion for quite a long time and I'm just part of the club but no indication

0:25.7

that I would eventually go into the first team and I wanted to play first team football.

0:31.1

And suddenly you meet this guy who says well I can get into the

0:33.8

Premier League and I'm thinking well why not take a risk there and go there for a

0:38.4

trial and that's what I did didn't tell the club didn't even tell my parents I

0:41.9

thought I just this is a maybe once

0:44.3

once in a lifetime opportunity and like I said I didn't tell anyone apart from my

0:49.0

brother he helped me organize it and then got on the plane and showed up in Birmingham at the Aslan

0:54.9

with the training ground on a Monday morning and trained with them for a week and

0:57.8

then they were so happy enough for me a contract. So,

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