Upfront Meets… Anita Asante
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
An England legend, a star of the GB team at London 2012, and part of Arsenal’s historic quadruple-winning side, Anita Asante has done it all. Today, Neetz joins Rachel in the studio for a special Upfront Meets, as they look back on her epic career after finally hanging up her boots at the end of the season.
Neetz discusses the toughest forwards she ever came up against, how her nomadic career shaped her as a footballer and as a human being, and compares the WSL’s top two coaches, who are two of her former mentors: Jonas Eidevall and Emma Hayes.
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| 0:00.0 | On today's up front, I'm joined by a legend of England women's football who recently |
| 0:20.7 | called time on a storied 19-year career from winning the UEFA Cup and the quadruple |
| 0:24.7 | with Arsenal to playing at London 2012 with Great Britain and Eta Sante has done it all. |
| 0:29.9 | And today we've got the pleasure of speaking to her all about it. |
| 0:35.2 | Welcome to the up-front studios, Nate's, we're very honoured to have you in the booth |
| 0:38.2 | with us. |
| 0:39.2 | Thanks Rachel, glad to be here. |
| 0:41.1 | Last time we saw each other was a post-FA cup, a little bit of partying, how are you feeling |
| 0:45.5 | after that? |
| 0:46.5 | Did you enjoy the night? |
| 0:47.5 | Yeah, it was a fantastic night, obviously Chelsea won my previous club and they deserve |
| 0:53.0 | to celebrate in style and it's just nice to be able to join them and congratulate all |
| 0:59.0 | the girls as well. |
| 1:00.3 | So we've got a bit of a special episode today, I guess, not really our traditional format, |
| 1:04.6 | but basically I get to grill you on what has been an illustrious career and, you know, |
| 1:10.3 | undeniable impact as well that you've had both on and off the pitch. |
| 1:13.3 | I want to start obviously right from how you got into football, you know, finished with |
| 1:17.3 | your thoughts on maybe the upcoming Euros, but first off, the season is officially over, |
| 1:22.5 | you're officially retired, how does it feel as it's settled in yet? |
| 1:26.0 | I know, I get this question a lot and it's like, I'm retired, but I don't feel retired |
| 1:31.9 | yet. |
| 1:33.7 | Just because obviously it's the end of the season and everyone's going off on the holidays |
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