How To Win The Champions League: Real Madrid
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Real Madrid are the most successful team in the history of the Champions League/European Cup with 15 titles. But how have they achieved this?
Steve Crossman and Guillem Balague explore Real's relationship with the competition, looking at their early dominance in the late 1950s, through to their six triumphs since 2014.
We hear from former players Clarence Seedorf and Sami Khedira on what makes Real Madrid so special. And former coach Paul Clement joins the pod to give us insight into current head coach Carlo Ancelotti and their "La Decima" win in 2014 against Atletico Madrid.
To watch the TV documentary, it is available on BBC iPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m00276py/how-to-win-the-champions-league
4:30 Real Madrid's early dominance 11:40 Clarence Seedorf on the Real Madrid DNA 22:10 Paul Clement on La Decima and Carlo Ancelotti 38:30 Sami Khedira on Real's recruitment 40:30 Can they continue their dominance?
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| 0:37.6 | The Football Daily podcast with with Steve Crossman. |
| 0:45.5 | Hi there, this is How to Win the Champions League, Real Madrid. |
| 0:50.5 | It's the first in a series of programmes over the coming months about how the world's biggest clubs have won the European Cup time and time again. |
| 0:58.5 | It's about lifting the trophy. |
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| 1:11.5 | League, you'll find it, you'll hear from the likes of former Rail Madrid President Ramon Calderon. |
| 1:17.0 | We're going to hear from the likes of Sammy Kadira and Clarenceidorf. We'll speak to Paul Clement, |
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