Stuart Baxter: Working with Laudrup and Larsson

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.5 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

As part of the post-Kobe earthquake rebuilding job Stuart Baxter was allowed to sign Danish superstar Michael Laudrup. They gained promotion but the experience drained him of every ounce of energy.

Stuart speaks of his love of South African football, especially at Kaizer Chiefs where he won the double in his first season. Fate seems to have stood in the way of him making it big in Blighty. Circumstances denied him key roles at Manchester United and Celtic, but he had the honour of working with Hoops legend Henrik ‘Henke’ Larsson when they were both at Helsingborgs. He brokered Henke’s loan deal to Manchester United where Sir Alex Ferguson adored him.

This is a fascinating Big Interview. Just fascinating.

Graham

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0:50.0	so maybe even strangers in the street. Love you. Hello listeners it's Graham this is the big interview part two of my chat with
1:10.9	Stuart Baxter. Stuart's life and his career have been defined by his wanderlust,
1:16.0	a need to keep reinventing himself in different cultures and countries.
1:20.0	We're all over the place again, so speak with this episode which ends with me asking
1:25.3	him to pick his favorite five footballers from a life spent traveling the world as a top-level
1:30.0	coach. Some of them you might know very well. Some of them you won't. So take your seat as we set off on part two of our world tour of football with your pilot, the highly experienced, highly amusing.
1:43.0	Stuart Baxter. Our sponsors a bit 365 and they said what do you see is your greatest achievement as a manager
2:00.0	now you're going to answer that you're going to tell us but you know if we're listening to
2:03.5	winning the title with a Russia mine in those situations winning the title with I.K Solna in the way that you did and
2:10.5	there are a host of other competing stories, but I've always felt since we first met
2:17.3	that taking sporting triumph out of human disaster and blending in a gift to that society was my opinion of your greatest
2:29.4	achievement from a distance.
2:31.0	But if you know our sponsors want to know what you consider your greatest
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