Euro Leagues – adios Pique, truffle hogs and opera not pop

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🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Alistair Bruce-Ball is joined by Guillem Balagué, Kristof Terreur and Mina Rzouki. Barcelona defender Gerard Pique has announced his retirement – but how good was he and how will he be remembered? The Champions League group stage has now finished and the team discuss whether it will be silverware for Napoli, the balance at PSG and the miserable campaign for Atlético Madrid. Plus – more top players are set to miss out on the World Cup, is this becoming a bit of an issue? TIMECODES….. 1 min: Guillem’s crazy birthday and Kristof’s holiday. 3 mins: Gerard Pique’s decision to retire. 12 mins: Napoli looking good and deserve great credit. 24 mins: Whether the balance is right at PSG. 33 mins: The deep problems at Atlético Madrid. 40 mins: More players missing the World Cup.

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0:00.0	BBC sounds music radio podcasts. Hello and welcome to the Euro leagues with me,
0:07.2	Alastair Bruce Ball this week, lots to talk about after the group stages of the Champions League
0:12.6	concluded. We'll have a good look at one of the form teams in Europe at the moment in Napoli.
0:16.9	Could they really upset the established order this season? We'll ask who's calling the shots
0:21.9	at PSG manager or star striker and where do Diego, Simionie and Atlético Madrid go next after
0:29.2	their exit from Europe all together this week. With me on the show is Guillain Balagay, the Belgian
0:34.3	football journalist Christoph Terrur and Italian football expert, Mina Rizuki. I can see them all
0:40.4	staring at me on the Zoom call. Guillain with a massive smile on his face. And for the first
0:45.1	thing we've got to do is say, happy birthday. Was it was your birthday this week, wasn't it?
0:50.2	Yeah, it feels like it's like it's like it's like the three days because Simionie has to say to
0:57.6	do a big thing out of it. I'm just going to forget to mention to my producer from now on
1:02.6	where my birthday is, but I got a cake live on television. I imagine Guillain, I only do
1:09.6	Euroleagues infrequently, but I imagine very generous like Christoph and Mina and Juliane
1:16.8	and James and Raffer and all the regular's. They'd be forthcoming with the gifts and the...
1:22.7	Yeah, yeah, here they are, but they're based in London mostly. So through Brexit it means that
1:27.7	they probably go to the Barcelona line about two months' time, but yes, you know how I celebrated
1:33.4	the birthday on... This was the second, so that was two days ago. So I woke up in Masei and then
1:39.8	at 9 a.m., I had to be in Munich to interview Kimi. So I got a flight and then I got a taxi to
1:46.2	go to Milan because I had to deal with the AC Milan game as you do. Okay, did Joshua know it was your
1:52.8	birthday? Actually he did, yeah, everybody did, yeah, everybody in the world apparently knows about
2:00.2	it. That's okay, good. Well everyone on Euroleagues does as well. Christoph, you've been away on
2:06.0	holiday haven't you? So you've been sort of desperately catching up with the last three weeks of
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