Manuel Pellegrini: 'Every day I tell myself that I'm starting my career again'
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
4.5 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In part two of my engaging conversation with Manuel Pellegrini we hear how during the South American phase of his managerial career the Chilean learned to control his temper and develop emotional intelligence – although a little dose of the hairdryer treatment doesn’t go amiss from time to time.
We learn how a clash of ideas with Real Madrid’s president caused a departure which led to three happy years at Malaga. And there’s great stuff about current club Real Betis – working with wing legend Joaquin and winning the Copa del Rey. Like veteran Joaquin, 69-year-old Manuel is incredibly demanding of himself to maintain peak condition; every day, he says, he treats as the first of his career.
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| 0:00.0 | This is David Moyes. This is Yapstam. This is Ryan Fraser. This is Troy Deney. This is Adam Lalana. |
| 0:05.6 | This is your club and you are listening to the big interview with Graham Hunter. A. Part 2, part 2. Might be boring to you, but part 2. This is my old Pelagrini again. Hope you enjoyed the first installment. |
| 0:35.0 | It was certainly interesting and nice meeting him. |
| 0:37.0 | It was a beautiful sunny day at the Loise D'Sol training ground. |
| 0:41.0 | They were playing a bounce match at the end of training when we got there. |
| 0:46.0 | Whacking was roaring and taunting people because his team had won. |
| 0:52.0 | And the racket he made was pre-historically good. |
| 0:56.7 | They were also cutting the grass so on a beautiful Andalusian sunny day. There was this scent of cut grass wafting all over the place. |
| 1:09.0 | Plus the scent because we originally looked at a site to do there, sit down in the in the players complex right next to the restaurant. |
| 1:17.0 | There was the smell of beautiful stew being cooked for their lunch. |
| 1:21.0 | Anyway, the grass was what stuck with us and will stick with us for a long time. |
| 1:25.9 | To have that smell of cut grass in your nostrils is, I love the smell of cut grass at the morning. |
| 1:31.5 | It was beautiful. In this section, Mama Billy Greeny talks about how moving |
| 1:37.5 | from Chile to Ecuador and encountering completely different personalities changed him as a |
| 1:42.1 | communicator, changed him as a communicator, changed him as a manager, and brought on |
| 1:45.2 | his need to learn about emotional intelligence. If you don't use the concept of emotional intelligence or haven't read about it, I suspect |
| 1:55.5 | you'll find that part of this interview interesting. |
| 1:58.5 | He's passionate about, because throughout it, although he engaged, he spoke really well in English, he smiled and laughed more than I've seen him do so probably in my, in anything I've been at that he's been at more than I've ever seen. |
| 2:12.0 | That was pleasant. There were no great |
| 2:15.8 | super headlines out of it but his piece on what he went through with Malaga losing to Dortmund almost exactly to the day 10 years |
| 2:26.1 | before in the Champions League quarter-final. That's good listening and if you're |
| 2:30.5 | part of the Scottish officiating team who unjustly saw Malaga out of the tournament, |
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