Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast, where I go in-depth with the most intriguing people in the world of soccer.

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Today I'm joined by Raphael Honekstein, the world's top journalist on German soccer,

to discuss his biography Bring the Noise the Yergen-clop story.

It's a fascinating look at one of the most charismatic figures in world soccer today.

He does something very well which is the mark of any successful manager which is to bring both the human and the emotional intelligence to a very keen intellect and a willingness to learn and to come up with

ideas and create something that is bigger than the sum of their parts. He's never

been in charge of a team that was a favor to win any of the

competitions that they've taken part in, but he has won stuff and he's come very close

with teams that know we really expected to be that close and that successful.

All that and more coming up.

Our guest today is somebody I would call the world's leading journalist on German football

and one of our greatest soccer

journalists period. Raphael Honekstein is the author of the book Bring the

noise the Jorgon Clop story and Das Rebut how German soccer reinvented itself.

Rafi also writes for E-SPN and Er Spiegel,

and he appears as a TV pundit in the UK

where he lives and in Germany.

Rafi, thanks for joining me.

Thanks for having me.

First off, congratulations on your Clop book.

It's terrific.

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