Zinedine Zidane: Big Interview Icon

Revista de la Liga with Graham Hunter

Graham Hunter

Soccer, Football, Sports

4.5 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to our Big Interview Icons series where we shine a light on a legend whose name has lit up some of the conversations I’ve had with my guests over the last six years of The Big Interview. This episode focuses on Zinedine Zidane.

Former Bayern Munich and Manchester United midfielder Owen Hargreaves talks about what struck him most when he first played against his hero: he was very quiet, and a tackle with him was like colliding with a brick wall.

Jimmy Bullard admired Zidane so much that he even wore his boots and shorts like him. In fact, on one occasion the tightness of his shorts was such that it impeded him from scoring an easy goal for Wigan!

Next up is Steve McManaman, who speaks about how Zizou endured a frustrating start at Real Madrid. Then came the 2002 Champions League final win over Bayer Leverkusen, and nobody doubted the great man after it.

Lastly we hear from former Real president Ramón Calderón, who says how promoting Zinedine from the position of reserve team coach to the biggest role in club football management was a risk that paid off.

Enjoy.

Graham

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0:00.0	Hi this is Ryan Fraser this is Troy Dana this is Gaspoyette this is Don Hudson this is your club and you're listening to the big interview with Graham Hunter thank you yorgen
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0:50.0	so maybe even strangers in the street. Love you. Hello there.
1:09.6	This is the version of the big interview where we feature the icons that have dominated
1:16.0	the last six years of the wonderful interviews our guests have given us on this podcast
1:22.0	series. I hope that one of the things that's made
1:25.3	this successful has been the fact that I'm absolutely passionately head over heels in
1:31.0	love with football and therefore the people who bring us
1:35.4	special memory special games special character in football. They're the ones that
1:41.2	that light things up for me.
1:44.0	Sedan is our focus today.
1:46.7	Zudanin, not Luca, nor any of the other.
1:49.0	Many sedans that are splattered around world football. I say that because at the time when I first
1:55.1	encountered his name largely via World Soccer because back in 1995 there was no
2:00.8	internet you didn't cover football the same way as we do now.
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