Euro Leagues: Gerard Pique special
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Former Barcelona, Manchester United and Spain defender Gerard Pique chats in depth with Steve Crossman and Guillem Balague about his sensational, trophy-laden career and the Kings League that he has launched.
TIME CODES 1 min – Pique discusses the first time he met Guillem and Spain’s 2010 World Cup win. 3 mins – Pique discusses what he thinks Pique is like as a person. 5 mins – Pique discusses his earliest memories of football. 6 mins – Why Pique choose to leave La Masia for Manchester United, how he found life at Old Trafford and the reasons behind his decision to leave. 16 mins – The reasons why Pique returned to Barcelona – and why the club were so successful. 25 mins – Who Pique thinks would win a match between the current Man City side and the best Barca team he played in 27 mins – The Kings League – what it is, why Pique created it and what he thinks it can go on to achieve.
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| 0:41.0 | On the Football Daily Podcasts, this is the Euroleagues. |
| 0:45.0 | Hi there welcome to the Euroleagues on five live sport. |
| 0:49.0 | This is a really special episode today, the life and times of a four times Champions League winner, a |
| 0:56.2 | Premier League winner, a nine times La Liga winner, a Euros winner and a World Cup winner. |
| 1:02.0 | And there are not many of them. |
| 1:04.4 | Giam Balaget is with us but to be clear it is not you. |
| 1:07.2 | No, no it's not me even though my title collection is not that big |
| 1:11.5 | I do feel a World Cup winner. |
| 1:15.0 | Right. Because this person who's sitting next to me who is Gerd-Pike made us feel in South Africa part of the team. |
| 1:24.8 | Hello Gerard. |
| 1:25.8 | Hello, how are you? |
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