Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast Champions League winner Antonio Nunez on 'beautiful' season with Liverpool, Rafa Benitez and 'complete player' Steven Gerrard
Nov 14, 2018
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Our Liverpool FC correspondent James Pearce tracked down a member of the Reds' 2005 Champions League-winning squad for our latest podcast - and what a cracker it is.
Antonio Nunez was back in Liverpool at the weekend for the first time since leaving Anfield soon after that unforgettable night in Istanbul - he travelled all the way from Spain by car - and our man caught up with the winger for a very interesting chat.
Nunez explains what he's up to, now that he's hung up his boots, the different way he is planning to stay in football, and what it was like to appear alongside players he idolised at his boyhood club Real Madrid, like Zinedine Zidane, Luis Figo, Ronaldo, Raul and Roberto Carlos.
Nunez swapped Madrid for Merseyside in the summer of 2004 when he became one of four Spanish signings made by new manager Rafa Benitez.
What followed next was what Nunez calls the 'most beautiful season I lived' and, from those memorable Champions League nights at Anfield against Olympiakos, Juventus and Chelsea, to the final against AC Milan and how Benitez's calmness instigated THAT second-half comeback, he takes Reds fans on a wonderful trip down Memory Lane.
Nunez also talks his unique place in Liverpool's history, why Steven Gerrard was the most 'complete player' he played with during his career, and what he makes of Jurgen Klopp's current crop. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Antonio Nunez was back in Liverpool at the weekend for the first time since leaving Anfield soon after that unforgettable night in Istanbul - he travelled all the way from Spain by car - and our man caught up with the winger for a very interesting chat.
Nunez explains what he's up to, now that he's hung up his boots, the different way he is planning to stay in football, and what it was like to appear alongside players he idolised at his boyhood club Real Madrid, like Zinedine Zidane, Luis Figo, Ronaldo, Raul and Roberto Carlos.
Nunez swapped Madrid for Merseyside in the summer of 2004 when he became one of four Spanish signings made by new manager Rafa Benitez.
What followed next was what Nunez calls the 'most beautiful season I lived' and, from those memorable Champions League nights at Anfield against Olympiakos, Juventus and Chelsea, to the final against AC Milan and how Benitez's calmness instigated THAT second-half comeback, he takes Reds fans on a wonderful trip down Memory Lane.
Nunez also talks his unique place in Liverpool's history, why Steven Gerrard was the most 'complete player' he played with during his career, and what he makes of Jurgen Klopp's current crop. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
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