Graeme Hunter
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 22 Jul
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It coincided with the same thing that won Spain Sunday's match against Argentina.
The extraordinary level of two things.
One, this society remains very different from the other ones I've lived in, whereby there are still old-fashioned values
like what you put into community, what time you're willing to volunteer without it necessarily bringing remuneration.
I see a lot that you can associate with GAA to the way in which Spain's footballing school around the country and over the 24 years I've been here, the way in which some of the scouting which uncovers
13 and 14 year old players who get recommended to the Spain FA, maybe before a local club, a professional club has picked them up.
This overfishing, this hunting down of talent that you get in the rest of the European leagues where you get kids of 10, 11, 12, 13 being tempted by huge contracts and their parents paid off.
In Spain at that age, you can easily be spotted by the Federation and brought in at training camps aged 14 and schooled for a couple of weeks in Madrid before you've necessarily signed for a big club.
But also another big, big thing, often those same players who've known each other from childhood can be...
Rivals eventually in their club careers, six or seven years later, where the two clubs and the two sets of fans hate each other.
But across the divide, these players are firm, firm, firm friends.
And I think the choice was perfection.
I admit it might not have seemed so at the time.
I buy your argument completely, Michael.
13 years ago, he was on the dole.
He'd been picked out by his club team.
And he spent...
you know very nearly two and a half years unemployed and he was sitting in a bar one morning having a coffee and saw a tiny little advert saying the spanish federation was advertising for an under 19 coach on a three-month contract and from that moment onwards he met several of the generation who on sunday were dancing and prancing with the medals and the trophies they continually said like
He's been with us since we were kids.
He's been teaching us, but he's been giving us his standards.
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