Tim Vickery
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1,032 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
Tim Vickery’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I suppose it has been a classic case of man management from Ancelotti.
You're dealing with Brazil in a World Cup.
Because it involves...
millions and millions and millions.
It is the biggest act of Brazilian patriotism to support the team in the World Cup.
You're dealing with lots of people who don't watch, certainly don't watch a lot of football outside Brazil and have been brought up
on the idea of natural superiority.
My grandson, who's nine in a couple of weeks, he's inherited that.
You know, he hasn't come close to seeing his team win the World Cup, but he's inherited this idea of natural superiority.
So it's very, very different from coaching the Italian national team.
And just to give you an example of this, when they played a warm-up against Panama, they conceded here in Rio, in the Manacana, they conceded it was a deflection off the wall.
Goalkeepers got no chance.
The goalkeeper is Alisson.
The crowd in the Manacana are booing him.
They are booing Alisson.
He gets a bad rap in Brazil because this is his third World Cup and he hasn't had the great game.
That's not his fault.
He hasn't had much to do.
The one they conceded against Croatia was deflected into the corner.
So you're dealing with a football culture
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