Magnus Carlsen on the Fusion of Chess and Football: Men in Blazers 01/02/25

Men In Blazers

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Fantasy Sports, Sports, Football, Soccer, Mib

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Five-time World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen joins Rog for an in-depth conversation about his illustrious chess career and his lifelong passion for football. He shares invaluable fantasy football strategies and offers insights into the fascinating parallels between the chessboard and the football pitch. Magnus also reflects on his memorable encounters with Pep Guardiola and Christian Pulisic and expresses his anticipation for a potential meeting with Mohamed Salah in the future.

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0:43.6	Moose Sala has come on our show a lot and talked about chess.
0:46.6	When you look at Mo's play on the field, does it surprise you Mo is a man obsessed with his
0:51.1	chess rating?
0:51.7	His evolution and his Liverpool career has been quite remarkable from being kind of a speedster
0:58.3	when he got there to now being incredibly smart with his runs and everything it does on the
1:04.3	field.
1:04.6	Does it have a connection with the fact that he started to play a lot of chess?
1:08.6	I'm not sure.
1:09.7	Do I rule it out?
1:11.2	No. No.
1:16.2	My guest today is an unstoppable phenomenon.
1:20.0	A gent who mastered and tamed the almost impossible infinities of chess
1:25.3	and used it to catapult himself to worldwide fame.
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