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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Oriol Romeu: The Xavi Hernandez Helpline

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Sports, Soccer, Football

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Oriol Romeu is a midfielder with such game intelligence that he has adapted to playing a pivotal role under several Southampton managers. Key to this success is his ability to seek out critique in order to improve his game, even contacting Barcelona legend Xavi Hernandez for pointers. Xavi said his famously consistent level of performance was rooted in his stubborn refusal to give the ball away.

Also in part one, you’ll hear Oriol’s ultimate five-a-side team picked from the clubs he’s played for – Barca, Chelsea, Valencia, Stuttgart and Southampton. He barely hesitated in rhyming his selections off.

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0:00.0

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0:04.6

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0:09.0

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0:32.4

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0:33.4

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0:45.8

Maybe even strangers in the street.

0:48.2

Love you. This is the big interview episode with Oriole Romille. It's rare that we start one of the

1:07.7

podcasts with a blast of etymology, but that's the mood that Oriole and I were in when we sat down in the Hotel Duvan in

1:16.2

Winchester, breaking down words, language, learning, because remember the Spanish man came to England when he was quite young

1:25.2

is now immensely articulate in what is his third language given that he speaks Catalan

1:31.7

and Spanish and that made this an interesting

1:34.4

episode. Please remember that the way he was taught in the Bus Academy was something that

1:41.6

was pretty alien in English football at that time.

1:45.0

Or he all had to adapt quickly to much more vertical football, much more ebb and flow football.

1:52.0

You had to realize what the concept of winning the second ball was.

1:56.5

He came to the realization that I'll have fewer touches on the ball, so I have to make

2:01.2

extra sure that those touches are good.

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