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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Marcelino is CONTROVERSIAL in Valencia! 💛🦇

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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I want to tell you about ‘morbo’ in today’s broadcast. It’s tricky to define – think of a leering interest into a game where there’s far more than meets the eye.

Because today’s ‘Derbi de la Comunitat’ will be FILLED with morbo. Villarreal head coach Marcelino García Toral has coached BOTH Villarreal and Valencia, and has been sacked by BOTH clubs for very controversial reasons.

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0:00.0

Welcome back. There's a Spanish word called morbel, which is a little hard to explain, but if you allow a loose definition, it's when a situation inspires a sort of leering interest.

0:19.0

Oh, look at this.

0:21.6

This is interesting.

0:23.6

And that's how you would define the Derby of the community.

0:29.6

The Derby de la Comunitat, the Valencian region

0:32.6

Derby between Los Che, Valencia and Villareale. On this occasion it's at what used to be called the Madrigal, La Ceramica, Villarreal's Stadium.

0:43.3

The reason that there's more about something extra riding on it is that the man, the billionaire in fact,

0:50.3

who has transformed Villarreal from a third division team with about a capacity of

0:55.7

2000-ish in the stadium and their team playing in a public park to a renowned European force,

1:03.8

a team that won the Europa League against Manchester United in Poland in 2021.

1:09.6

That man, that force of nature who's now been in charge from 1997 until today,

1:16.1

Bernando Roitz had Valencia at his heart.

1:20.0

He would consider himself a Valencian.

1:22.2

He's not from Villarreal or Castellon.

1:24.0

And he tried very hard to buy Valencia when he first wanted to use his entrepreneurial millions back in 1996, 1997.

1:33.1

He went to Valencia, which was owned by his brother, his big brother, Paco Roach, and Paco.

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