World Cup 2010 Revista: The Ronaldo Rules
Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter
Graham Hunter
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🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
It's matchday in South Africa 2010, so it's time to see what Spain were up to.
It's the round of 16 and it's Portugal: that means Ronaldo. He was the world's most expensive footballer and had just finished his first season in the white of Madrid.
Behind him, was one of the meanest defences in world football.
Spain had to innovate to stifle Ronaldo and break down the defensive barrier that stood between them and a quarter-final spot. Here's how they did it.
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| 0:00.0 | Iniesta's in the middle. |
| 0:02.0 | Torres is trying to find him. |
| 0:04.0 | It's broken for fabric gas. |
| 0:06.0 | Now it's in the yester. |
| 0:07.0 | This is it. |
| 0:08.0 | That's the goal. |
| 0:09.0 | Spain, Rachshari, one for Walter. I'm sorry, what a local! Hello, big interview listeners. As we get a new season of interviews ready for you, |
| 0:30.0 | this is World Cup 2010 Rivista, our journey through Spain's win in South Africa 10 years ago. |
| 0:36.0 | Graham Hunter was there with them and every match day he'll be here to tell you how they did it. |
| 0:41.0 | This one goes out on the day of their round of 16 game against |
| 0:44.2 | Portugal, it's our first knockout round game. Graham, things I guess were starting |
| 0:49.7 | to change the atmosphere around the camp was starting to change, albeit their last two group games were effectively |
| 0:56.5 | knockouts, but how were things shifting around the Spanish team? |
| 0:59.7 | Everybody's fit, there's another massive influx of parents, grandparents, friends, |
| 1:06.8 | brother, sisters, girlfriends, kids. That changes the tone obviously. There's just it's not normal. That's not as... |
| 1:15.0 | That's not normal, isn't it? |
| 1:16.0 | No, I think definitely not. |
| 1:18.0 | I think that, I mean, I don't want to be lazy, but the comparison we've often reached for is the England squad sitting |
| 1:24.8 | miserably partly because in the big interview we've had England and nationals |
| 1:27.8 | talking about it and explaining it to us and Svenyur and Errikson commenting on the regime that the Capello set up. |
| 1:37.0 | But I think that we know that beyond the fact that the England players probably didn't know how good they had it and should have been |
| 1:43.3 | behaving a little bit like Spain repeatedly did across the three tournament wins. |
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