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Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Spain win! La Roja are reborn in Berlin

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Sports, Soccer, Football

4.5863 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

As I leave Berlin - the city of Jesse Owens, David Bowie and now Lamine Yamal - I’m recording this final report from Euro 2024, where I have been embedded once more with the Spain team.

I saw the treble winners of 2008-12 up close too, and they may not have a prime Iniesta or Xavi, but in their own way I think this team is just as good.

Some of them spoke to me after the final, and what a joyful, brotherly bunch they are. The trophy is in good hands.



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0:00.0

It's all the city of David Bowie and Iggy Pop living on milk and cocaine.

0:09.0

The city of John F. Kennedy, I'm in Berliner.

0:18.8

I like to think of it as the city of Jesse Owens too.

0:29.4

I'm driving across it now or being driven across it now. Punch drunk because it's a real slog, it's a real campaign. You put a lot into a tournament of this mentally and physically.

0:36.0

I treat it a little bit like Mark Kucarea told me he was going to treat it last night before the match. It's called the on arrival.

0:48.7

And sometimes you get the bonus, I think, of speaking to the coach or the assistant coach or one of the starting players on arrival.

1:02.0

In this instance, it was Kukorea.

1:07.0

And I said to him, starting a European final,

1:12.0

is a real proof of how hard you worked, how much dedication you put into superseding some of the

1:21.1

tests that you've been through.

1:24.0

And he said, yeah, look, it started a long time ago.

1:27.5

We've been here away from our families a long time.

1:31.8

I'm going to treat starting a European final as a present and then he said I'm

1:41.1

I'm gonna to enjoy myself.

1:43.0

Sort of follow up question naturally because pre-match, most players don't speak like that.

1:51.0

You might find a behemoth of the game maybe Pelay thought that in

1:57.6

1970 or maybe messy thought that about 900 of his 1,000 matches. I don't know.

2:06.0

But Cucaria, albeit a tremendous athlete, a funny guy, well-quord and a top-level professional footballer.

2:16.0

He's not ballet or messy and...

2:20.0

Did he hear him saying that he wanted to enjoy himself and have fun was, if not starting, it was at least interesting.

2:29.0

I said, well, people don't use that phrase often in pressure situations in football

2:34.2

Mark what do you mean and he said well we've worked so hard as a team to be

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