The Radar: Florian Wirtz
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to episode 12 of The Radar, where The Athletic's unrivalled range of global football experts will profile some of the game's most exciting up and coming talents who look set to star at this summer’s European Championships and Copa América.
21-year-old Florian Wirtz has taken German football by storm since his emergence at Bayer Leverkusen back in 2020.
A superstar in their extraordinary unbeaten run to Bundesliga glory - will he also help inspire the hosts to European success in his own backyard?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.8 | Yes, guys, Iyo here. |
| 0:07.7 | What you're about to hear is an episode of the radar. |
| 0:11.1 | The Athletics bite-sized profiles of the 12 most exciting young players at the Euros and Copper America this summer. |
| 0:18.2 | Think of the episodes as Essential Scouting reports. What makes the players |
| 0:22.5 | special? Why there's so much fuss and why this summer could be their breakthrough moment. |
| 0:28.8 | All of the episodes from the series will land on this podcast feed before the tournaments get |
| 0:33.7 | underway. And we'll be back with some big preview episodes next week. |
| 0:38.3 | All you need to do is enjoy. |
| 0:44.4 | Florian Vert has taken German football by Storm |
| 0:47.5 | since his emergence at Baylorlaver-Cousen back in 2020. |
| 0:50.9 | Wirtz and that 3-0. |
| 0:53.6 | Wirtz held just on. He was not placed. Florian Wirtz and the 3-0. Wirtz held on it off. |
| 0:55.0 | He was not placed. |
| 0:57.0 | Florian Wirtz strikes again. |
| 1:00.0 | The attacking midfielder has had no shortage of admirers in his short career so far. |
| 1:06.0 | And scoring after just seven seconds against France did nothing to lessen the hype around him. |
| 1:11.6 | The first shot and the first hit for eight seconds, Florian Wurts. |
| 1:17.6 | We kick in with mood and risk-burettes. |
| 1:20.6 | Verst has had to overcome his fair share of adversity, suffering an ACL injury, which kept him out for 10 months. He'd be forgiven for |
| 1:28.7 | thinking that would have set him back, but the general consensus, he's looking even better |
| 1:33.1 | than he did before. What a pass for Vietz, who's never scored a senior hat-wick. He has now. |
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