Rory Smith
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1,467 appearances
11 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6d ago
Rory Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think we did we'd all agree that Diego Maradona's commitment to his training regime was was beyond reproach.
Yeah, and I mean Napoli's uh Maradona's life is is a m is probably a more much more compelling tale than Messi.
He's Messi.
I mean Maradona's life Maradona lived about a million different lives, all of them really fascinating.
And it's not to kind of impugn his his memory.
He is like Stephen says, it's what's amazing about Maradona is that he was the f Maradona was the fulfillment of a prophecy.
That's the r the mad thing about Maradona, that he was described in a
in nineteen twenty eight of this as the spirit of Argentinian football and then fifty years later the literal description of him of that of that description is made flesh in Maradona.
And to f have to follow that, who wasn't just the number ten, but was the
the kind of th the spiritual ideal of Argentinian football.
For Messi to follow that
Build on it.
And I mean
early on in his international career, I think it did really weigh on him.
I think he it took him a long time to get used to to being Argentina the focus of that kind of the cult around the Argentine national team.
know, foot football is just just really, really quickly, Chapasari.
Just uh the the thing on the three finals that that I think is really important is that Messi has has defined three World Cups.
He might not have won all three of them, but he dragged Argentina to the final in twenty fourteen.
He dragged them in twenty twenty six.
I mean the half an hour that he
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