Remembering ... Rafael, Fabio and Nani

No Question About That - a Manchester United podcast

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Sports, Soccer

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🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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#782 | Three former Manchester United players retired this week - Rafael, Fabio and Nani. With more than 450 games for the club between them and countless trophies, each added much to United's modern history. Nani ended his career at Estrela da Amadora, Fabio at Gremio and Rafael at Botafogo. Ed and Wayne discuss their impact. If you are interested in supporting the show and accessing exclusive bonus episodes, check out our Patreon page or subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscriptions. We do a bonus show and a tactical review every week for backers. No Question About That is available on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, Amazon and all podcast apps. Hit that subscribe button, leave a rating and write a review. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Enkwaiti Daily.
0:08.5	Today we're going to talk about the retirements of three former Manchester United players,
0:14.7	legends, icons.
0:17.1	I'm here with Wayne.
0:18.7	How's it going?
0:19.7	Yeah, not bad.
0:20.4	I do find that journey to find the right description,
0:25.0	descriptive for these players, quite interesting.
0:28.6	Well, should we do a bit of football cliché's ranking here?
0:32.4	What is a legend? What is an icon? What is a great?
0:37.2	What's the ranking? What's the top ranking?
0:40.2	Well, the point is that it depends on the club that you play for, right? Because Tieri-Henri,
0:47.0	as a statue at Arsenal, he's their top scorer and he won two league titles.
0:58.5	So the players that were about to mention didn't become the top score for United,
1:02.7	but they all won more trophies for United.
1:07.3	Yeah.
1:08.2	Well, so we're going to talk about Raphael, Fabio, and Nanny, who all announced their retirements within just a few days of each other. I did absolutely love the Manchester United Instagram post about Nanny, which had him upside down. And he, thank you, Nanny, upside down as well.
1:28.8	Very nice. Yeah, very good stuff. Good stuff. Not one of yours, no? No, but I know the lads,
1:34.9	Jordanair and Matt Burgess, who did that. And yeah, it's very good, very, very inventive. I like
1:41.3	it very much. Yeah, very good. All right. Well, incredibly long career that these players have had. I mean, you think Fabio and Raphael, Rafael came to United at what age 17, 18?
1:53.7	17 and they weren't allowed to play until 18. So, yeah. Right. And Nanny arrived in, I should have got the station in front of me what 2006 7 around
2:04.7	about then 7 just after we won the title so he'd been at the club for a year before well six
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