Jesper Blomqvist - “Injuries ended my career at 24”
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🗓️ 18 February 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This week's guest is former Manchester United winger Jesper Blomqvist. The UTD Podcast team flew to Stockholm to visit Jesper in his own pizza restaurant, where he opened up about ending his career early due to injuries, being on the receiving end of Roy Keane's rants and how he struggled to come to terms with the shouting inside the Old Trafford dressing room.
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| 0:00.0 | Beckham plays it to Blonquist. Surely it's going to |
| 0:03.4 | United's fourth great save. Not enough for |
| 0:07.1 | of Manchester United. They're rampant. A moment which means an |
| 0:10.8 | awful lot for yes for Blonquist. His first goal is a Manchester United player. |
| 0:15.0 | And look at this from Blonquist! |
| 0:18.0 | Finished off in style by Yes for Blonquist. |
| 0:22.0 | Lovely Manchester United move. |
| 0:23.7 | Yeah, Bob just look at the run from Blonquist. |
| 0:26.7 | Oh dear me. |
| 0:28.7 | Welcome to another united podcast where currently I'm getting some very strange looks because I'm sat on a |
| 0:33.9 | plane on my way to Stockholm in Sweden talking into my phone. Yep people think I'm |
| 0:39.3 | odd that's fine it's not the first time that's happened. Anywho the reason I'm doing |
| 0:42.2 | this is because we are on our way to interview and enjoy the company of Jasper Blonfist treble winner. |
| 0:48.0 | Also, Pizza Place owner, excited about that. Maisie and our producer Tasca are in the air somewhere else. |
| 0:54.2 | We're on separate planes. Everybody's been very delayed. It's all been a nightmare because |
| 0:57.5 | of Storm Kiara, which I'll be honest with you. Pretty windy. Pretty windy. |
| 1:02.1 | Sure it'll be fine. So I think this is going to be a really good one because, |
| 1:06.0 | so Yasper joined United in 1998, his debut season he won the treble, he started the Champions League |
| 1:11.0 | Final, he got all three medals, which not that many players actually did, |
| 1:14.8 | but the Champions League finals actually his last game for the United because the following two years, |
| 1:18.8 | he was injured the entire time. He had his own cookery show on M. U. T. |
| 1:22.0 | And he ended up going to Everton and Charlton and back to Sweden. |
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