Manuel Pellegrini: 'Riquelme, Senna, Pires, Cazorla – they lost one ball a month'
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
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🗓️ 17 April 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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I caught up with Chilean managerial legend Manuel Pellegrini in beautiful Seville and spoke about his Atlantic crossing to sample the different footballing styles that Italy, France and England had to offer. The English game wasn’t as primitive as some might claim – thanks to the innovating force of Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal and the adaptations of Fergie at Manchester United. Also in part one, the importance of an open, enquiring, cultivated mind, and working with talents like Riquelme, Senna, Pires and Cazorla at Villareal.
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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 again, this time with the former coach of River Plate, |
| 0:28.9 | Vereal, amongst others. Manchester City, West Ham, and the current coach of Real Betis, Manuel Pellegrini. |
| 0:39.4 | A tiny bit longer introduction to the first part of our interview this time, simply to say that, well |
| 0:46.0 | played by Martin Gregg who fixed up the travel and the accommodation and helped with the |
| 0:50.3 | research, while Neil White swand off to San Francisco. Don't know what that's all about. |
| 0:57.7 | But you'll find out. Thanks to Pete Jensen who was fundamental in fixing up access to Bettis and Mademois Pelicini, |
| 1:07.8 | a dear chum of his. |
| 1:09.6 | Thanks for that, Pete. |
| 1:11.3 | It was brilliant for Martin and I to be there Martin I don't think had been in Sabia and we caught the capital of Andalusia on one of its good days. |
| 1:21.0 | No it wasn't 102 degrees, it was only about 25, 26 degrees, but the sky was beautifully blue. |
| 1:28.8 | The city was quiet and methodical, which is not the norm, particularly so near to Easter and then the Ferrier. |
| 1:36.6 | But to go to travel through Seville for the two of us was a real joy. |
| 1:41.8 | The Betis training Ground is along a really beautiful wide avenue |
| 1:49.2 | flanked by palm trees. And there's a couple of good things there and that for me it was I mean |
| 1:56.0 | I've been many many times since to watch well Betty's play but for me it was particularly |
| 2:02.2 | with Martin a fellow Scott there on his first visit |
| 2:05.8 | is a real jolt to the memory banks of the Benito Viamanine where Manuel Peregrini has begun to turn out one of Europe's most exciting sides. |
| 2:18.0 | It was a beautiful memory of what's exactly 41 years ago in June, where, coincidentally had been at Ladders-Aleda, which was the |
| 2:29.9 | first stadium I went to in Spain back in 1982 for Scotland, New Zealand, until last Saturday I was at La Rosaleda. |
| 2:36.8 | And this week we were at the Benito of Hiamane, which is right adjacent to Real Betis' training ground, something that's very |
| 2:46.2 | unusual in modern football. There's usually a huge distance between a club's |
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