The Final Countdown: Bilic and the Croatian Knights
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
4.5 • 863 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Hola Big Interview listeners!
The World Cup final is almost upon us and to get the juices flowing I have put together a special episode focusing on Croatia. You will hear from Slaven Bilic, who I spoke to in a wonderful Big Interview one year ago and who played at France 98 when Croatia finished third.
Slaven told me about some of the matches he played in at that tournament - including a semi-final against tomorrow's opponents France - but this show is not about past glories. You will also learn about the tremendous team spirit in this generation of Croatia players as well as the circumstances which have enabled them to flourish.
If you've enjoyed Slaven's punditry in Russia this summer then you will know why he is a man well worth listening to.
Enjoy!
Graham
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| 0:00.0 | Al-Aa-socipo, my name is Neil. |
| 0:03.0 | This is John Narnberger from Kansas City, Missouri, USA. |
| 0:06.0 | Moray Field near Brisbane in Queensland. |
| 0:08.0 | Edinburgh, Barcelona. |
| 0:10.0 | And I'm a socio. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm a socio. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm a socio of the big interview. My name is Neil. I'm originally from Scotland but now living in Barcelona. |
| 0:17.0 | Why did I become a sothio? Well, you could reference Mr Hunter's knowledge and access to some great football characters but I'm |
| 0:26.1 | going to go for his exceptional use of swear words he really seems to strike the right |
| 0:31.5 | cord they're not overused. |
| 0:34.6 | As a Scotsman, it's something I really value. |
| 0:37.4 | My favorite interview of the season, |
| 0:40.4 | I'm going to go for Kevin Kalban. He came across as a really open, honest, funny and down-to-earth guy in general, |
| 0:49.0 | seemed like the sort of person you could happily sit down and have a point with them and just listen to his stories. |
| 0:54.0 | Good morning everybody, thanks for being with the big inside view during the Russian World Cup. |
| 1:03.7 | I'm reliably informed that while I was in Russia, Slavin Bilich became one of the stars of I TV's |
| 1:09.2 | punditry. |
| 1:10.2 | Typically forthright, opinionated, funny, had the in right and right even either in |
| 1:14.9 | hoots of laughter or smiling evily. But about a year ago we sat down and spoke to |
| 1:20.6 | Slavon Billedch in northern Germany on West Ham's pre-season tour and he spoke about |
| 1:25.3 | player development focusing on Luca Mordrich. He spoke about the way in which Croatia came |
| 1:29.9 | through as Knights soldiers in Euro 96, which led to an infamous clash of defeat against Germany, |
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