What's it like growing up as the youngest of 10 in a house where the living room doubled up as a wrestling ring?

That's where Florian Verts learned to fight, to toughen up and to dream big.

From those chaotic beginnings to breaking Bundesliga records and becoming a Liverpool player.

His story is packed with drama, setbacks and spectacular comebacks.

And if you'd like to listen to The Full Adventure, it's available right now on Patreon and on Apple Podcast subscription only. Hello and welcome to the Football for Kids podcast with me, Darren Reese.

And welcome to another brand new episode.

In this episode, we're going to be talking about a player who you can't miss.

No matter what seat you sat in at Stamford Bridge or whatever seat you sat in watching the TV at home,

because he's got big fuzzy hair and he plays on the wing and he scores and he assists, he's calm,

he's got no ego, and he goes by the name of Gokarea.

Mark Kukarea, in fact, that is our episode today.

Before we get into that episode on Mark Kukerreya, I've got a shout

out to do. And that shout out is this one. He says, Hi, my name is Hudson. I am seven years

old and I love your episode. Can I please have a shout out to my football team? They are called

Prime FC in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Well, Hudson, a huge shout out to you. Thank you very much for being a

super listener, firstly, and a massive shout out to every single person, including you, of course,

in Prime FC in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Always wonderful to know where all of you listeners are listening

all around the world. There's about 120 countries listening,

so the more, the merrier. A big shout out to you, Hudson. Thanks very much once again

for getting in contact. Right then, let's get into it, shall we? Let's talk about the man with

a long fuzzy hair, the man who lights up Stamford Bridge and is a Euros winner with Spain,

the man who goes by the name of Guggeria.

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