La Roja Grapple with Covid Chaos

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.5 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Hola!

Welcome to another of our daily Euro 2020 shows. Here's my despatch from Madrid, where the Spanish national team are currently in isolation ahead of their opening group match against Sweden on Monday in Seville.

Positive tests, training bubbles, player vaccinations - oh, and we talk about the actual football, too!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Big Interview at the Euros. My name is Martin Greg and we are joined by the host of the Big Interviews. My name is Martin Greg and we are joined by the host of the big interview Graham Hunter
0:14.3	Spain love a pre-Tournament crisis I remember three years ago in Russia where they sacked
0:19.6	their manager during Lopategi just before the tournament this time they face problems of a different
0:25.3	kind for the uninitiated can you just bring us up to speed on the latest havoc that's been
0:30.7	reeked by COVID-19 on the Spanish national team?
0:34.0	Well it's a continuation of another drama at Martin because
0:38.0	although Sir Ger Amos has had a very difficult 2021, I think it was a wide expectation that his momentum as a force of
0:46.7	nature over the years with Spain and given the fact that in planning for Euro 2020 last year, Lucian Rickey was just a gigantic fan of Sergio Ramos.
0:59.0	It's a general perception that probably he was going to make it into the squad and of course he's the
1:03.2	captain he's there he's the guy in red who's won the most games in fact I think he's
1:07.6	the he's the international footballer who's won the most games ever in the history of
1:11.6	the sport. And he got left out and that caused Fiore Lucianerke's
1:19.3	exact quote was look it's sergeromas. If I play him there's a route if I don't play
1:23.7	him there's a route if I don't bring him as a route I've got my reasons
1:27.5	kabosh and it meant that for the first time ever serge buskets was going to go into a tournament as Spain captain.
1:37.0	One of the veterans of the World Cup win.
1:42.0	In fact, now without Ramos, I think he's the only World Cup win. In fact now without Ramos I think he's the only World Cup winner still in the squad.
1:47.0	That might change. We'll come on to Raoul L'Beyall in a minute, but I spoke to I interviewed Baskets but via Zoom when he was in the
1:59.2	training camp with Spain and it was patently clear that you can ignore any of this idea that because he's a Catalan from Barcelona
2:06.6	It wasn't that big a deal of he was he was full of beans
2:10.5	Looking forward to being a good elder statesman, a good leader. And then Sunday night, it's made clear
2:18.5	it's announced that he's tested positive in a routine test across the squad for COVID. It's followed by a real
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