Odion Ighalo - "I saved my dinner money to watch United play"

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🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Odion Ighalo joins the UTD Podcast for the final episode of 2020. The Manchester United striker shared his incredible journey from Nigeria to Old Trafford, and what every step meant to him as a passionate fan of the club.

He told the Pod about how he would save up his dinner money to pay and watch Man Utd on TV at the weekends, his first experience with cold weather & snow in Norway, and then achieving a dream by playing at Old Trafford with Watford.

Odion then talked us through the incredible night of his dream move to Manchester United, where he was running around a hotel in China trying to find a club official who could authorise his deadline day move.

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0:00.0	And I'm GALO is off the mark for Mantis United.
0:04.4	Well, that was a brilliant goal and a marvelous moment for Odeon I-GALO.
0:09.6	A last minute deadline signing from China and that is a moment he would have dreamt off
0:16.6	and I tell you what the whole of Nigeria will celebrate that because he's been
0:21.1	getting massive coverage over there becoming the first player from that country to play for United and he scored.
0:28.6	Hello and welcome to another Manchester United podcast. I'm Helen Evans. I am joined by my
0:35.5	podcast friends Sam and Maisie. Didn't want to say co-hosts?
0:40.1	Didn't want to say co-hosts. No co-hosthost, yeah, but not your co-host, like Sam put it in the wild.
0:45.0	Right, okay, so yeah, co-host is fine.
0:48.0	We're all co-hosts.
0:50.0	It's like a try-host.
0:51.0	Tri-host.
0:52.0	It's some thinking. We'll move on.
0:54.0	Hi are we?
0:57.0	Well good.
0:58.0	Very good, thank you.
0:59.0	How are you?
1:00.0	Good. Yes, I am good. Thank you very much.
1:02.0	Oh yeah, I enjoy enjoy a lockdown again.
1:03.3	Getting out exercising, getting fresh air.
1:05.7	That's the only way to do it, isn't it?
1:07.2	It's like into school walks.
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