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🗓️ 15 January 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Welcome to our Big Interview Icons series where we shine a light on a legend whose name has lit up some of the conversations I’ve had with my guests over the last six years of The Big Interview. This episode focuses on Cristiano Ronaldo.
We start with Quinton Fortune talking about the rough footballing environment at Manchester United where Ronnie was regularly ribbed – but it only drove him on to work even harder.
Then there’s former Real Madrid assistant manager Paul Clement’s tale of Ronnie calming him down in the tunnel before the 2014 Champions League final against Atletico in Lisbon.
Ramón Calderón talks about signing the genius from Manchester United. Sir Alex Ferguson had stated he’d rather sell Real a virus, but Ramon insists that if a top player wants to leave, you can’t stop him.
Lastly Ryan Fraser talks about playing against Ronnie when Madrid came to Bournemouth to dole out a friendly thrashing. When he put a free-kick in top corner even Ryan was applauding!
Enjoy.
Graham
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0:50.0 | so maybe even strangers in the street. Love you. We decided to record this icons branch out of the big interview because when you speak to elite |
1:15.8 | footballers and coaches what happens is that other characters emerge it's like |
1:22.0 | by the telling of stories or the sharing of |
1:25.6 | opinions and emotions about great people in football. It's as if they come to life in |
1:30.6 | the podcast series. Certainly that's the case for me and the point of |
1:35.3 | having emotions and opinion is to share them because what that does is stimulates |
1:39.8 | debate, stimulates affection and others. |
1:42.9 | And we've had so many great footballers |
1:45.3 | who were repetitively mentioned |
1:47.9 | across the big interviews last, I don't know, |
1:50.8 | six years that we decided to dedicate some episodes to letting them |
1:55.9 | shine letting them speak more loudly so at the first we went through I I don't know, who have we done so far? |
2:05.4 | Henric Larson, we've done sedan, and now it felt like time for Christina Ronaldo. |
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