**REPOST** Classic Big Interview: Luca Vialli
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
4.5 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Following the tragic passing of Luca Vialli, here's another chance to hear my interview with the great man from season two.
I'll record a personal tribute later today.
Thanks
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Here’s another chance to hear my interview with Gianluca Vialli from season two.
Gianluca was my favourite footballer during the 1990s, and I had the honour of getting to know him at his peak. He graced Serie A with his goals during a golden age of Italian club football, winning the league and getting to three European finals with Vujadin Boskov’s Sampdoria – an unfancied club who caught the imagination with their togetherness and sheer will to will. At Juventus, Luca played amid a mouth-watering array of talent, as part of the Turin side’s Tridente attack, culminating in a Champions League win on his final game. We hear about how coach Marcello Lippi’s pressing, offensive style at Juve broke the mould of the Italian approach. Gianluca also gives incredible insights into his time at Chelsea – falling out of favour with Ruud Gullit, replacing Gullit as boss, and then his shock and anger at his own unmerited sacking. My friends, it’s simply one of the best Big Interviews ever.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to a big interview from the vault. Look, all right, no fooling around. |
| 0:17.2 | We asked our socios, our members, our supporters at patreon.com |
| 0:21.1 | forward slash Graham Hunter to pick their favorite from season 2 of this long running and I have |
| 0:27.2 | to say much loved show. You're about to hear one of the interviews they picked as the best |
| 0:32.4 | from a selection which included international |
| 0:34.6 | footballers representing Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Argentina, England, |
| 0:40.1 | Scotland and Northern Ireland. Here's what I had to say about this one when we recorded |
| 0:46.9 | during season 2016, 2017. 17. |
| 0:55.0 | Look of Yali as a guy after the privilege of knowing since just before he Captain |
| 1:00.6 | Juventus to the 1996 Champions League final. |
| 1:04.0 | Luca dissects his memorable scudetto win with Zumpdoria |
| 1:08.0 | reflects on losing the 1992 European Cup final to Kreuf's dream team at Wembley. We talk about when we first met after I was sent |
| 1:14.8 | to Turin to find out the secrets of a event decided just destroyed Rangers in the Champions League. |
| 1:20.9 | Luca takes us into a winning culture at the heart of that extraordinary era in Turin, then the move to Chelsea, where he was both player and manager, all the big characters pop up in some of his brilliant anecdotes, told with his typical articulacy, character, |
| 1:35.8 | fun, wit. |
| 1:36.8 | Raniare is there, DiCagno, Lippi, Ferguson. |
| 1:40.3 | Sit back and enjoy this fascinating conversation with Jano Caviali. |
| 1:49.0 | So, um, Luca, everybody's who got the misfortune to have to listen to me every two weeks on the big interview, |
| 1:57.0 | knows that I get quite bubbly, quite excited about interviews like this. |
| 2:01.0 | They're very few that I've been as excited about as this one, |
| 2:05.0 | but you were my favorite player of the 90s by a long way. I was lucky enough to meet you |
| 2:09.0 | during the 90s. And here we are back again. So for me this is like heaven it's paradise. |
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