For Wayne Rooney To Even Know My Name Was Massive! - Carlos Richards
The Beautiful Game Podcast - Episode 136 - EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW CARLOS RICHARDS - We discussed the career of youngster Carlos #Richards with the man himself. We discussed; making #Derby debut, meeting Wayne #Rooney, recovering from rejections + much more.
00:00 Intro
1:55 Guest intro
2:33 Take us back to the beginning
6:37 Carlos Richards upbringing
8:28 How did you get into football?
9:52 Initial Chelsea rejection
10:50 Views on stats vs performance
12:02 Juggling school with football
14:39 Overcoming rejection
19:42 Signing for Derby
22:18 Staying in Digs
24:15 How is it leaving your family?
25:15 Transitioning from London to Derby
26:21 Managing friendship groups
28:08 Getting called to play for the first team
30:14 How is Wayne Rooney the manager?
31:14 How do you assess your own game?
31:11 Which players are you studying?
33:06 Bukayo Saka
33:49 Deep dive on the whole debut experience
37:25 Carlos on experienced players
38:09 This season
39:02 Experience of being thrown into the limelight as younger players
40:45 Can you be thrown in too soon as a youngster?
43:46 Views on football snobbery towards Gibraltar
46:00 Contract situation
47:11 Life outside of football
56:51 Outro
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