My Chat with English Soccer Legend Matt Le Tissier (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_499)

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🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Topics include Matt's professional soccer career, mental health issues among soccer players, Lionel Messi, the importance of coaches and sports psychologists, COVID policies, BLM, the importance of speaking one's mind, and regret. Note: At the 39:34 mark I said "We used to think that the earth revolved around the sun," when of course I meant to say "we used to think that the sun revolved around the earth." _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted earlier today (January 16, 2023) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1501: https://youtu.be/x-EWh98TSK4 _______________________________________ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (paperback edition) was released on October 5, 2021. Order your copy now. https://www.amazon.com/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://www.amazon.ca/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X https://www.amazon.co.uk/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0	Hi everybody this is God's
0:03.0	this is God's ad for the sad truth today. I have a footballing legend and no I'm not
0:07.4	talking about American football I'm talking about real football Americans call it
0:11.6	or North Americans call it soccer.
0:13.6	I have one of those rare one club players,
0:17.8	Matt Leticia, who's a legend from Southampton
0:20.4	who's also been capped, I think eight times for the English national team.
0:25.0	What a pleasure and honor to meet you sir. How you doing?
0:28.0	Great to talk to you Gad. Nice to be here. Likewise, likewise. Now I did notice, of course I always turned things back to me, it's just, it's normal. I saw that, and I was very proud of that, I might put that on my CV even my academic CV
0:43.6	that a footballing legend such as yourself saw my ridiculously silky skills
0:49.4	playing at the beach and you gave me your imprimatur. Do you want to add anything to that admiration of yours?
0:56.3	No, I mean it looked all looked very natural with the ball at your feet. I was very impressed.
1:01.8	Thanks. Thanks.
1:03.0	Okay, so let's start with your career.
1:05.6	Here I think a bit younger than me.
1:07.1	I'm 58.
1:08.2	Are you 54 or 55?
1:10.8	So I think in other circumstances we might have played together. I might have had the pleasure to play with you on the field. You started in the 80s, but pretty much spent your entire career at Southampton. Is this something looking back that you regret?
1:25.3	Oh, I wish I had gone continental or something or are you perfectly happy with that decision?
1:30.0	I'm perfectly happy with the legacy that I created at Southampton Football Club.
1:35.0	I had a few chances to leave, to Spurs and to Chelsea and to Liverpool, places like that.
1:41.5	A couple of French teams were interested. I think they saw my
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