Rafa Benitez & the games that made him

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🗓️ 3 August 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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A special episode from the Football Daily archives when in 2019 Rafa Benitez joined Guillem Balague to talk Istanbul, Tyneside & Madrid.

[This is a re-versioned episode from the Football Daily archive. It was first published on the 25th April 2019]

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.5	The Football Daily podcast on BBC Sounds.
0:10.1	Hello there, I'm Steve Crossman.
0:11.8	Welcome to the Football Daily.
0:13.8	In this special edition of the podcast, we've got an exclusive interview with Newcastle manager
0:18.5	Raffa Benitez.
0:19.2	He talks about the matches that have
0:21.3	shaped his varied and successful career. A legend at Liverpool after that Champions League win in 2005
0:28.2	and hugely popular on Tyneside 2, where he's out of contract at the end of the season. Benitez
0:34.0	is probably one of the most high profileprofile coaches in the Premier League.
0:38.9	But the 59-year-old, who joined the coaching staff of Rail Madrid at the age of just 26,
0:43.9	has also won trophies in Spain, Italy and Europe, and he remains as hungry as ever for success,
0:50.8	even recently saying he wants to win the Champions League again before retiring at the
0:55.5	age of 70. Here he is then in conversation with Guillem Ballagay.
0:59.9	I ask you to have a look at some of the games that have defined your career. And it remind me
1:06.8	that you write everything down. Everything means everything, I believe.
1:12.5	So is that in no books?
1:14.4	When I was 13, I was just writing, giving marks to the teammates and writing everything,
1:21.0	top scores in the team, everything.
1:23.1	Since then, every single game is true that we analyze.
1:26.7	Not just me.
1:27.3	Now it's with my staff.
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