Yaya Touré: The Dressing Room Standards That Turned Man City Into Champions (E402)
The High Performance Podcast
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4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Yaya Touré is one of football’s most dominant midfielders, a key figure in transforming Manchester City into a title-winning force. In this episode, Yaya shares the unseen moments behind that success, from arriving at a club with a losing mentality to helping build a culture driven by focus, respect, dedication, and passion.
He opens up about the turning point that changed everything, a heated halftime confrontation that sparked a shift in standards and turned City into “a machine.” Drawing on his time at Barcelona under Pep Guardiola, Yaya explains why winning teams are built on brotherhood, purpose, and an obsession with excellence, not just talent.
Yaya also reflects on the managers who shaped him and the identity that defined his career: “I’m a winner.” This is a powerful insight into what it really takes to build a championship mentality and sustain success at the highest level.
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| 0:00.0 | Yaya, welcome to high performance. |
| 0:04.2 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:05.2 | Thank you. |
| 0:05.5 | Pleasure. |
| 0:06.0 | We've seen you as a player. |
| 0:07.2 | We've seen you winning trophies. |
| 0:08.6 | We've seen the success on the pitch. |
| 0:10.0 | We've seen you working as an assistant manager in various countries in various clubs. |
| 0:14.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:15.8 | What's the next step for Yaya Torre? |
| 0:17.7 | For Yaya, it's going to his management now. |
| 0:22.4 | I've been, if you can say that, |
| 0:27.3 | I've been blessed playing football at high level with the top clubs, with top players as all. And now, why am I looking for us going to the management? I've been assistant for a few |
| 0:32.9 | years with different clubs and different coaches. And I think now I'm looking to become a manager, a coach, if you can say that. |
| 0:40.3 | So what have you learned from your time as assistant managers in various places |
| 0:45.3 | that makes you realize that now you're ready to be the number one, not the number two? |
| 0:49.3 | Something remind me when I was playing, I'm at playing times. |
| 0:53.3 | When I tried to reflect at some point, I was like always thinking about me, right? |
| 0:59.3 | What I'm eating, how I'm sleeping, how I're resting. |
| 1:02.6 | But going to the management as an assistant, I remember one of the coaches I have it, and |
| 1:07.6 | it was Carl and Belgium. |
| 1:10.0 | It was saying to me, yeah, I just want you to be close to the players |
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