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The Spanish Football Podcast

TSFP Presents: Top Fives: Captains (tease)

The Spanish Football Podcast

Phil Kitromilides, Sid Lowe & Alex Kirkland

Sports, Soccer

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Here's a clip from our latest episode of TSFP Presents: Top Fives, as Phil, Sid & Al pick our five favourite LaLiga captains. For the full episode, and access to all our previous series, join us at patreon.com/tsfp! Patrons get two new episodes of TSFP Presents every month, as well as weekly Bonus Pods and Q&As, Al's Paper Reviews and access to the TSFP Discord. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Music

0:08.0

An obvious choice in another place to start would be Carlos Puyón at Barcelona.

0:12.1

Barcelona's longest serving, most successful captain.

0:16.1

I mean, he would have thought he's got to be in our top five, right?

0:19.7

I mean, there are other Barcelona candidates, I guess.

0:23.7

Can you think of anyone else who might not be able to knock Carlos Puyón off

0:29.0

at the Barcelona nominee nomination?

0:31.8

Well, look, I mean, you only need to look at last few years

0:36.2

and go for the obvious choice, which is Leo Messy.

0:38.6

Now, obviously, Leo Messy, in many ways, you could argue,

0:41.3

doesn't fit that paradigm of a captain, isn't that leader?

0:45.1

But then, I think, if you look at the impact,

0:47.8

you look at the way in which others kind of played towards him,

0:51.4

or played kind of, it's not even towards him,

0:54.7

is it? Just sort of let him do it because he's the best.

0:57.2

Messy did become, I think, a captain of sorts, if it's slightly unusual one.

1:02.1

He did become someone who ended up talking more than he once would have done,

1:05.4

who ended up taking a weight that perhaps previously in his career he wouldn't have done.

1:09.9

So maybe, Messy.

1:10.7

There's that clip of him that was doing the rounds on social recently

1:13.3

with Argentina giving the team talk just before, which final was it?

1:17.0

It was a recent comment, which was quite one, I think.

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