In Focus with Matthijs de Ligt
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Dion Dublin visits Old Trafford to chat with Manchester United defender Matthijs de Ligt.
The 25-year-old talks about United’s season so far since Ruben Amorim took charge at the club, and where there is room for improvement.
He opens up on the success of his career so far, having started out at Ajax, where he reached the Champions League semi-final in 2018 and then his big money moves to Juventus and Bayern Munch.
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| 0:41.9 | Come on in, sir. |
| 0:44.0 | Come on in. |
| 0:45.4 | Have a seat. |
| 0:48.2 | Matthias, thank you very much for your time. |
| 0:50.0 | Really appreciate it. |
| 0:51.7 | Let's start. |
| 0:52.3 | I want to start, I want to find out about you. |
| 0:54.7 | I want to find out where you were brought start, I want to find out about you. I want to find out where you, where you were brought up, want to talk about your family and so let's |
| 0:59.7 | start at the very beginning, where are you brought up? |
| 1:02.2 | I've been brought up in a small, yeah, small village in Holland. It's called Abkhouda, |
| 1:07.6 | really close to Amsterdam. And I was just playing football there with my friends and going to school. |
| 1:15.7 | Just everything in this small village, you know, my world was really small, but at the same |
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