Ramon Calderon: Making the Deal (Part Two)

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Soccer, Football, Sports

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🗓️ 9 October 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

As president of Real Madrid – and as an influencer while out of that office – Ramon Calderon was inside some historic deals: Cristiano Ronaldo to Madrid being chief amongst them. In this, the second part of my interview with him, you’ll hear the story of that transfer, and also a whole bunch of other decisions, made by him and by Florentino Perez, the man he succeeded and who would return to power at the Bernabeu, with Ramon Calderon as a frequent critic. You’re going to hear very nice things said about David Beckham. You’re going to hear about Predrag Mijatovic and the need to delegate. You’re going to hear about how two goals in the last 20 minutes of a football match can restore one’s faith in a higher power. I hope you like it.

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0:00.0	You're going to. Welcome back to the big interview for part 2 with Raman Calderon. If you've not heard
0:21.1	part 1 it's not obligatory by law, but it is part of your recommended five a day allowance.
0:27.0	This chapter deals with Ramon's life inside the club he loves.
0:30.0	How he became nomadid president, how his style differs from that of Florentino Perez, the president who gave us
0:36.3	lost Galactioc and the current incarnation of Madrid whose success Catherine wonders
0:41.5	at given the chaos that led to Zadan's appointment.
0:44.0	There's great insider knowledge here about the deal's done and others not quite done.
0:48.0	You may leave with a new appreciation of David Beckham.
0:51.0	Lord Beckham, is it now?
0:53.0	And you'll want to go to YouTube to check at the finale of the 2007
0:56.0	in the League of a season.
0:57.0	Okay, Ramos, let's go. One of the things then that we should do is because we're talking to you because you took
1:08.6	your love of Real Madrid into something active and you became president.
1:14.0	Why did you want to become president?
1:16.0	I didn't, really, it was something.
1:19.0	No, no, I mean, it's not something you prepare you are prepared for you start little by
1:26.0	little first being a fan follower being a member when I came to Madrid to work as a lawyer to open my own office in the 70s,
1:36.0	I became a member.
1:38.0	It wasn't easy at the time I said, it is not now.
1:42.0	Then I started to go to the matches to the Bernabe Stadium. I started to be a participant in the life of the club in many senses going to the general assemblies and just being in touch with the directors and
1:56.5	so on and I went to an election as I run as Vice President we didn't win those elections and then in 2000 I helped the
2:10.6	current president to be where he is now.
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