Episode 570 - Cesc Fabregas
Arseblog Arsecast, The Arsenal Podcast
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🗓️ 24 March 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
This is an interview that has been a long time in the making, and it did look as if the current situation with the world in various states of lock-down might delay it even further. However, it was an absolute pleasure to have a Skype conversation with former Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas on Friday night.
We talk about how his move to Arsenal came about. What was it like as a teenager leaving home to come live in London, and join a club at the height of its power and success under Arsene Wenger? That was a dressing room with some big names and even bigger personalities – how did a 16 year old deal with that? We chat about his time at the club, his development as a player and a person, Arsene Wenger as a coach and how he helped him, plus his departure in the summer of 2011, playing for Barcelona, the return to England, whether or not he could have come back to us and lots more.
Cesc is very open and honest throughout, and I'm hugely appreciative of the time he gave me for this podcast. I hope you enjoy it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a brand new R-Splug R-Scast right here on R-Splug.com. |
| 0:27.5 | How are you? |
| 0:28.5 | Hope you're well? |
| 0:29.5 | I show features a very special guest, you know who it is because you know we've been teasing |
| 0:33.5 | it a bit over the weekend on the social media and also because you know it's the title |
| 0:39.4 | of the episode so you know I'm not giving anything away. |
| 0:42.4 | It is former Arsenal player, former Arsenal captain, CESC Fabregas. |
| 0:47.9 | This is an interview that has been in the works for I would say at least nine months maybe |
| 0:54.5 | a year and it's one of those things that's quite difficult to organize because well the |
| 0:59.2 | life of a professional footballer means that they're you know they're sometimes at home |
| 1:04.5 | they're sometimes not at home they're traveling or they're not traveling and also CESC is |
| 1:08.4 | somebody who has a young family and with kids that's another thing that has to be prioritized |
| 1:13.3 | over you know an interview for an Arsenal podcast and but we did get it organized you know |
| 1:19.0 | after much back and forth a bit of wrangling here and there and we looked at dates and all |
| 1:22.6 | kinds of stuff we had it sorted April the 7th that's when it was supposed to take place. |
| 1:28.4 | I was going to fly to Nice and then travel on to Monaco and we were going to do the |
| 1:33.9 | podcast face to face in a hotel in Monaco but and you all know what the but is the coronavirus |
| 1:44.0 | has put paid to that because of well the hotel already cancelled my reservation so I don't |
| 1:49.8 | know if they're closed down or whatever it might be an air travel if it's still a possibility |
| 1:54.4 | doesn't seem like the wisest thing to do right now because we need to try and stay away from |
| 2:02.1 | each other as much as possible so it was like oh is this ever going to happen but a few more |
| 2:07.4 | messages and we decided we would do it on Skype which we did on Friday night and it was a thoroughly |
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