How To Win The Champions League: Real Madrid
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2025
⏱️ 44 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 Carlo Ancelotti and their "La Decima" win in 2014 against Atletico Madrid. To watch the TV documentary, it is available on BBC iPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m00276py/how-to-win-the-champions-league
[this is re-versioned episode from the Football Daily’s archive. It was first published on the 18th January 2025]
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.9 | The Football Daily Podcast with Steve Crosman. |
| 0:13.5 | Hi there, this is How to Win the Champions League, Real Madrid. |
| 0:18.4 | Alongside this podcast, there's a documentary on BBC Eye Player. If you just |
| 0:22.4 | search for How to Win the Champions League, you'll find it, you'll hear from the likes of former |
| 0:26.7 | Real Madrid President Ramon Calderon. We're going to hear from the likes of Sammy Kadira and |
| 0:32.3 | Clarenceidorf. We'll speak to Paul Clement, a big part of the coaching staff when Carlo |
| 0:36.9 | Ancelotti's Real Madrid won La Dethema. |
| 0:39.7 | And how could you start how to win the Champions League with anyone other than Real Madrid, the 15 times winners? |
| 0:48.3 | And could you do it without Guillem Balagay? I just don't think you could. |
| 0:52.0 | Ola, Guillem. |
| 0:53.1 | Hello, Steve. |
| 0:54.8 | You're such a big part of our Euroleague's team. |
| 0:57.0 | You're such a big part of our coverage of all European football. |
| 1:00.4 | But if we're doing how to win the Champions League and Rail Madrid, I mean, you'd expect |
| 1:04.2 | the call, right? |
| 1:05.5 | Kind of, yeah, because I think it's the club I've been psychoanalysing more often than any other. |
| 1:13.3 | I can tell you why I think there is that special thing about them. |
| 1:20.6 | I can also tell you that we can talk later that I don't think there is a DNA that makes them |
| 1:26.4 | special but a bunch of things makes them completely different. And't think there is a DNA that makes them special, but a bunch of |
| 1:27.7 | things makes them completely different. And yeah, it is a fascinating story because you have to |
| 1:34.4 | touch on many, many things, many levels that had to do with the club to get to a conclusion |
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