Mark Chapman meets: Ruben Amorim
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In a special interview, new Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim speaks to Mark Chapman about his appointment.
Amorim explains why he already feels a connection with the club’s fans, and why his new role won’t change him as a person.
He also talks about his time in Portugal, including how being released as a player by Benfica impacted him.
TIMECODES 02:30 Making a connection with Man Utd fans 04:00 Being an emotional character 11:00 On seeing a psychologist as he came to the end of his playing career and prepared to become a coach 14:00 Getting inspiration from Jorge Jesus and Leonardo Jardim 18:00 The driving force behind each managerial move he’s made 21:00 On how moving to the club will change his life
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| 0:45.6 | The Football Daily podcast with Mark Chapman. |
| 0:50.3 | Ruben Amarim, hello, welcome to the Football Daily. |
| 0:54.8 | First of all, Ruben, I think I need to say sorry and apologise because I'm putting you through another interview. No, I understand. I explain that because it is so different here than in |
| 1:01.3 | Portugal. I understand the difference, but it's hard to cope with everything. So you have so much |
| 1:07.4 | to do. And then you have to talk a lot about something that you are starting |
| 1:13.6 | so you don't have a lot to say. |
| 1:16.6 | When you arrive on that first day, I mean, do you literally have a sheet of paper of the things that you feel you need to do on your first day at the clock? |
| 1:25.6 | Yeah, it's like a schedule. It was so different for me because you have everything planned, |
| 1:31.3 | you have a lot of help, but you have a lot of things put in hours. |
| 1:38.3 | So you don't control, you don't really control your schedule. |
| 1:41.3 | And that is different here because you have a lot to do. |
| 1:45.0 | At each stage through your career you will have presumably had that control right from the start, |
| 1:51.0 | will you, because of the nature of the sizes of those clubs? |
| 1:54.0 | Yes, yes, but it's different. You don't have this demands with the press. |
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