LifeTimes with Paul Pogba
The Game
The Times
3.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In this new podcast series, LifeTimes, our leading writers have stepped away from the heat of the action to speak in-depth to some of the most famous athletes on the planet - starting in episode one with footballer Paul Pogba.
The France World Cup-winner and £89 million Manchester United midfielder sits down at the Bulgari Hotel in Milan to discuss everything from his on-pitch achievements and the importance of his faith to the criticism he receives over his body language and choice of haircuts. Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss an episode.
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| 0:00.0 | For the first edition of L lifetimes, I'm delighted to be joined by Paul Pogba, one of the most |
| 0:18.3 | renowned and certainly talked about footballers on the planet. |
| 0:21.8 | With 35 million followers on Instagram, his every move and |
| 0:25.0 | haircut makes news around the world. We are sitting in a suite in the Bulgari Hotel |
| 0:29.7 | Milan to discuss his Muslim faith, becoming a world champion, and why he thinks he gets a raw deal from his critics. |
| 0:36.0 | I can have it again pushing forward on the right-hand side of the penalty area. |
| 0:39.0 | Felini, laying it back, Popper onto his left foot, he's taking an def deflection and loops it past the goalkeeper and in. |
| 0:45.2 | First blood to Manchester United, the world's most expensive player |
| 0:49.4 | the man that has got it. |
| 0:50.7 | Huge deflection. Jose Marino sits motionless on the bench but it's a |
| 0:55.9 | goal in a moment and a stroke of luck as well that could be the platform for |
| 1:00.6 | Manchester United winning the Europa Lee. |
| 1:04.0 | Pop the left, what it shot is in. |
| 1:06.0 | Fransley 3-1, and poor Popba might just have finished Croatia off |
| 1:12.0 | with a brilliant goal. |
| 1:14.0 | They're 30 minutes away from being crowned champions of the world. Thanks Paul for being with us and I just want to start with that level of fame. You get |
| 1:32.0 | recognized everywhere you go is Is that something you ever get used to? |
| 1:36.0 | Well, now yes, I guess, I'm used to it. It's not like I wanted this when I was little, but to see people happy when they see me |
| 1:48.9 | crying and wearing my shirt and stuff like that. |
| 1:51.9 | Of course it makes me really happy and if you can share the love that they have for me and I can do well a real pitcher when it's a few pitchers, that's okay, but now I start realizing the impact of football and yeah, that's it. |
| 2:12.0 | Well, there's so much to talk about. |
| 2:14.0 | We're sat here now in Milan, but as your last |
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