Raphinha, Richarlison & Jesus: The New Brazilians
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Host Ian Irving is joined by The Athletic's South American football expert Jack Lang, tactics writer Michael Cox and Spurs & England correspondent Jack Pitt-Brooke, to reflect on three big summer transfers for a new kind of Brazilian superstar...
The panel reflect on some of the true Brazilian greats of the last 25 years, discuss why great entertainers like Ronaldinho and Neymar never signed for a Premier League club and if the 'Joga Bonito' spirit clashes with modern day Premier League tactical systems.
Plus, ahead of the winter World Cup, who has taken the biggest risk by moving to Arsenal, Spurs and Barcelona respectively and what chance do Tite's Selecao have in Qatar this winter?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football podcast. I'm Ian Irving, and today's show is all about the new Brazilians, a new blend of |
| 0:21.9 | energy, industry and functionality and attack that's so different to the magical, mythical, |
| 0:26.8 | megastars of our childhood. |
| 0:32.4 | You can sing like the canary, you can be a virtuoso, but but believe me you can make only beautiful music if you know |
| 0:40.8 | how to play in an orchestra we'll focus in in particular on gabriel jesus with charleston and |
| 0:50.8 | refinia who have all made big money moves this summer, but don't worry, we'll also be |
| 0:54.8 | reminiscing a little bit as well. And we'll ask the question about how the makeup of a modern |
| 0:59.4 | day Brazilian superstar has changed over the last 25 years. And is there still room for a little |
| 1:05.4 | Joga Benito at the highest level? To answer that question, we're joined by Jack Lang, staff |
| 1:10.2 | writer for the |
| 1:10.8 | athletic, an expert of course on South American football. Our Spurs and England correspondent, |
| 1:15.6 | Jack Pitt Brooke, is with us as well, or JPB, throughout the duration of this podcast, considering |
| 1:21.1 | we've got two Jacks. And Michael Cox, our tactics writer, is here as well. |
| 1:30.9 | Gentlemen will. writer is here as well. Gentlemen, we'll talk about the trio of transfers in just a moment, but let's take a look |
| 1:35.2 | back first. |
| 1:36.1 | And JPB, just a couple of weeks ago on this podcast, we revisited the 2002 World Cup. |
| 1:41.8 | People can go back and listen to that if they fancy a trip down |
| 1:44.9 | memory lane. It was great fun to do. We had a brilliant reaction to it as well. But that |
| 1:48.4 | team of Ronaldo, Ronaldino, Rivaldo, and others, of course. The thing that jumped out to me |
| 1:54.0 | straight away when reflecting on it was why we never saw any of those three in the Premier League. |
| 1:59.7 | What do you think? That's a really good question. |
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