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The Spanish Football Podcast

TSFP Presents: Cult Heroes: Episode 2

The Spanish Football Podcast

Phil Kitromilides, Sid Lowe & Alex Kirkland

Sports, Soccer

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Join Phil Kitromilides, Sid Lowe & Alex Kirkland for this re-release of the second episode of our TSFP Presents series Cult Heroes. Originally published for patrons at patreon.com/tsfp in September 2019, we discuss two more LaLiga icons, Juan 'Juanito' Gómez and Wilfred 'Willy' Agbonavbare. We're releasing a classic TSFP Presents episode every week here on the Monday podcast feed. For the full archive of 100+ episodes, plus our new series Rincón Cultural, join us at patreon.com/tsfp. We're now offering annual memberships with 10% off. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to another re-release of our TSFP present series Cult Heroes.

0:06.9

This week we're talking about two players with two big legacies at two Madrid-based clubs.

0:14.0

One player's name is sung in the seventh minute of every game at the Bernabéu and the other

0:20.1

player's name adorns the magnificent Estadio Nibayecas.

0:25.2

Both are known just by their first names.

0:28.0

We're talking this week about Juanito and Willy.

0:39.0

Hello patrons, welcome to TSFP presents Cult Heroes.

0:43.0

It's the second episode of the season and we're talking about two players today who are defined by their first names

0:50.0

and not even their first names, sort of nicknames derived from their first names.

0:55.0

Two players from two clubs in the same city, two very different men, two very different clubs,

1:00.0

but two intriguing characters.

1:03.0

We're talking about Juanito and Willy, Juanito being Juan Gómez, the Real Madrid legend,

1:10.0

and Willy being Wilfred Agbonavbalé, the Raya Bayecano legendary goalkeeper.

1:17.0

We'll start off by talking about Juanito, who I think most people listening might have an idea

1:24.0

of who he is. They might never have played watching play.

1:28.0

They might never really know what position he was at, but you've heard the name Juanito or you might have done.

1:33.0

I hadn't before really moving to Spain. I don't know about you.

1:36.0

I was just going to say the only thing I knew about him really before doing the research for recording this podcast

1:42.0

was the name, the fact that his name is still sung every single game in the seventh minute at the Bernabéu

1:48.0

and that he was a really good player in the 80s, but I didn't know much else.

1:52.0

I have to say, when you start reading up, I mean, we're doing half a podcast on him here,

1:56.0

you could do a whole podcast series on Juanito and it goes.

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