Well, welcome to a very special Amfield Extra podcast. I'm delighted to say that I'm joined here today by one of Liverpool's heroes of Istanbul, Vladimir Schmitzer, Vladimir it's great to see you back in the city. How are you?

Yes, hi, I'm fine here. I'm enjoying a little bit my time here at

Liverpool, the family because anytime I come back, you know, I go see the

games, I made the fans and yeah so far I had a great week here

of Liverpool. What have you been up to during your time back here? I've been you

think back in Czech Republic or in Liverpool Liverpool yeah yeah I had I had already on

on Wednesday I had a golf for the like golf day for Liverpool with partners of Liverpool.

Then we had a supporters club dinner on Saturday at Anfield.

We had yesterday on Monday we had a former players awards and today tonight we got a players awards

play all the year for Liverpool so I don't feel again so quite busy I had some work for

Liverpool FC as well TV so yeah so it was quite busy and I was here for the

legends dinner on Monday evening and you know you were up there on stage receiving a special award inducted into the Hall of Fame for your contribution to the club.

That must have meant a great deal to you.

Yeah, it's a massive deal. I was to be surprised because I didn't know it even exists.

This is Hall of Fame for former players and I was of course very glad to be received this prize because it mean a lot to me because I was

always proud to play for Liverpool. For me it was the greatest club and always will be in my eyes and it was the highest level I play in my football career so yeah I was I'm such just cloud I will see this trophy.

But you at Anfield for the game against Southampton?

Yes.

Yes, I've been, I've been, yeah.

I just felt, when I saw first 10, 15 minutes, I knew from I knew it's going to be difficult to break them down.

Yeah, they played really well defensively and we had a position but it was very hard to break them, you know, and find the space between the lines and we had our chance, we missed the penalty and that was the crucial moment in the game you know sometimes when you don't

create too many chances you have to take one if it comes and we miss one we

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