On The Continent: Diego Maradona’s European voyage, Champions League tantrums, and Norway’s new champions
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
With the sad news of Diego Maradona’s death, we begin today’s episode of On The Continent with a look back at his near-deistic relationship with Naples and its people, as well as his famed stint at Barcelona. Dotun Adebayo, Andy Brassell and Lars Sivertsen all take a moment to also share their favourite moments from the great man’s illustrious career.
Elsewhere, Lars gives us the lowdown on Norway’s newest league champions, Bodø/Glimt, who have capped off their fascinating rise from the lower leagues with a title win. We also look back over another chaotic week in the Champions League, as tempers fray at Inter and PSG face renewed backlash after their underwhelming win.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this episode of Upfront is brought to you by Transport for London. |
| 0:06.2 | TFL are taking a zero tolerance approach towards hate crime and abusive |
| 0:10.0 | behavior on public transport and making sure the network is as safe as possible for passengers |
| 0:14.6 | and TFL staff. If you find yourself witnessing an incident you might wonder what you can do to help. |
| 0:19.7 | More on that later in the episode. So welcome to another edition of On The Continent, your one stop shop for everything to do with European football. |
| 0:34.7 | I'm Dotton Adebai. |
| 0:36.2 | I'm Andy Russell and I'm Larcey Whitten. |
| 0:38.8 | And on today's program we're going to be looking back on another week in the Champions League, fascinating as always as you'd expect, |
| 0:46.0 | but also going to the far frozen north. When I say far north, |
| 0:50.7 | almost as far as you can go and still be not in the Arctic Ocean itself. |
| 0:55.0 | And we're going to be obviously playing tribute to the King, the one and only Don Diego of football. Radio, Radio, Radio, da, da, da, da, da, da, |
| 1:13.1 | La! |
| 1:15.1 | Oh! |
| 1:15.6 | Oh! |
| 1:16.6 | So Andy, let's start with Maradona. |
| 1:21.9 | Obviously, people will remember him for his 1986 World Cup victory almost |
| 1:27.9 | single-handedly for Argentina, but he was to a certain extent a European footballer of Argentinian background obviously, but he played for both Napoli and Barcelona. |
| 1:40.3 | Yeah and Seville later on as well, which is an interesting little postscript to his career. |
| 1:47.0 | Well, postscript, it was like his post-Nappily bolt hole after everything fell apart there and I suspect we'll touch on that in a bit. |
| 1:59.9 | But it's easy to forget that his moves to Barcelona and to Napoli were both world record fees. |
| 2:07.8 | So these were both absolutely huge at the time as they're huge now. We've got to talk about Napoli for the most of this because that is the place perhaps even more than Argentina where he'll be more than |
| 2:22.0 | the most and where he is being mourned the most and where he is being mourned the most already. |
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