Gerardo Bruna Interview: Lowdown on Thiago Alcantara from ex-Spain teammate | Life as a Liverpool youth prospect dubbed 'new Lionel Messi'

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.4 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Former Liverpool wonderkid Gerardo Bruna, once dubbed the 'new Lionel Messi', played alongside Thiago Alcantara as the pair came through the youth ranks in Spain. Playing for Real Madrid until he signed for Liverpool at the age of 16, Bruna is the same age as Thiago, who was at Barcelona at the time, and they appeared together in the Spanish team that won the U17 European Championships in 2008. Bruna gives Blood Red's Matt Addison the lowdown on Liverpool's new midfield maestro, signed from Bayern Munich this summer, and explains what it was like to move from Spain to Merseyside as a teenager, while dealing with the 'Messi' tag. Now at Derry City, Bruna has had an interesting career after leaving Liverpool, and he will be watching former teammate Thiago closely as the 29-year-old aims to make his mark at Anfield, and add to the Bundesliga league titles and Champions League trophies he picked up in Germany. Enjoy.The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriberVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.
0:08.0	Gerardo Bruno currently plays for Dairy City in Ireland at the moment and previously represented Tramir Rovers on the other side of the river Mersey.
0:15.8	The Argentinian, once dubbed the next Leonel Messie, also played for Spain at youth level having grown up in the Canary Islands and he's now 29.
0:24.4	He's also played for Blackpool and Akronton throughout his career.
0:28.0	So why have we got Gerardo onto the Blood Red podcast?
0:31.2	Well, there's two reasons. The first is that Gerardo was on
0:34.7	Liverpool's books as a youngster where he played for the reserves and trained sometimes with the
0:39.0	first team under both Raffer Benitez and then Roy Hodgson. Having left Rail Madrid to sign for Liverpool, the hopes were high
0:45.2	that Bruno would become the next big thing. While that didn't quite work out, he's had quite a decent career so far.
0:52.4	And the second reason, Gerardo was a part of the Spanish
0:55.2	under 17s team who won the under 17 euros in 2008 alongside New Liverpool star Tiago Alcantara.
1:02.4	I'm Matt Addison and welcome to the latest Blood Red
1:05.7	podcast.
1:06.7	The Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo.
1:11.0	First of all, how are you doing and sort of how well is for see you going with
1:14.4	dairy city at the moment? It was good until I pick up an injury. But I mean with the
1:22.3	situation we were we just started the season and then the COVID team came in and you know we had to stop whole season and just until recently and yeah I mean it was going well I mean personally I mean it was good but as I said
1:40.0	it's a strange season we haven't been doing really well lately to be fair but
1:47.1	but yeah I mean it is what it is.
1:49.9	Yeah of course it's a strange time for everyone isn't it And I'm sure you'll keep an eye on the pool,
1:54.9	one of your four clubs, obviously,
1:57.4	that's sort of why we've got you on to talk
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