Chris Samba | Homeless To Russian Riches
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What challenges did Chris Samba face when he chose to be homeless for football?
Pito. Sormituntuma. Istuvuus. Viltosuoja. Kestävyys. Puorellinen. Puoreton. Mukava. Mielyttävä. Vedenpitävä. Lämmin. Hengittävä. Minunkin täytyy hengittää. Sinä asetat vaatimukset. Meiltä löytyy käsine. Tegera. Suoja käsineet työhön kuin työhön. Hi, welcome back. Quick question from me. It's very official. Which other footballers can you name that their surname is also a dance? David Salsa. Nearly. Nearly. I'll give you half a point. Yeah, thank you very much. So today, it's Chris Samba. We're doing this again now. Maurice Fabian Waltz. I was going to go with Waltz. There is a Maurice Waltz. But it's one of them Vs that could be a W. If you put the different letter at the start, it's a W. Do you know what?
Maurice Waltz. Morky Corky. Thingy for Athletic World Madrid. His middle name's Orky. It's not the Do-The Okie-Kokie, is it? It's his first name, Do-The. Kongo? Konga? Konga. I think we're just naming dances now, aren't we? Well, there is a Kongo. Yeah. Who Chris Samba played for. There we go. Tedious link. But yeah, Chris Samba, what an episode. What a story. The story is up there with Broomfield, Tommy, in outrageousness. Yeah. It takes a very, very brave man to leave home and make yourself homeless to play football. Don't spoil it all, John. Well, I've just given the whole story away, haven't I? Yeah, but it is mad. So, obviously, when he went to Russia and everybody's like, oh, he's gone there for the money and all that.
Fucking fair play, Chris. Johnny Tango. Doing well. This episode brings in my favourite noise of all the episodes that we've done. Yeah. You did it better than me then. Yeah. Why do you do this? It's not going to stop now. And it's, by the way, it's not a machine gun. Well, shall we get Chris in? Yes. What a lovely, lovely bloke. Man Mountain. By the way, the first... No, maybe not the first, but one of the only people who's ever said, can I get an alcoholic drink, please? He went straight on the rum at 11 o'clock. So, not only is he a top player, top guy, he likes a rum and coke and all those are, Chris. These two are always... saying that the lads who can't make it as strikers move back?
Ah, like me. Yeah, I was a striker, yeah. It's harder than what you think up there, isn't it? Yeah. It is. Yeah, it is. So I couldn't make it. I can't run long. They want you to run channels after channel. I'm like, ah, that's not for me. I did it one year, and after I was signed, I was like, nah. I went to his office, I said, no more ideas of playing me up front, please. Did you do well up front for him? Yeah, I did. Yeah, we did well. Playing with Benny McCarthy for half a season up front. And it was, I think, yeah, a year we finished like, I think, eighth or tenth. Between eighth and tenth, I'm not sure.
So did Sam know that you'd played as a striker as a young lad?
No, in training, I will only play striker. I don't, I don't. Defender is boring, you know. You run after people most of the time, you know. So when I'm in training, I'm like, nah, I want to do stuff. I don't want to be running after you doing stuff, you know. So it's more like that.
I can actually remember when you had your centre-forward stage.
Yeah, we did all right. I was more like the target man type, but we did okay at that time.
Just looking at your start in football, it seemed like you were up against it from the start.
yeah yeah it was a tough tough very tough start you know i mean um well i was playing at normandy you know where where i live in rwanda and everything and uh obviously it was a mix for me it was like a mix of What was going on at home, you know, and football, you know. So, at home, things were not great, you know, obviously. So, at some point, I chose to just leave the house. At 16, just leave the house, you know. To nowhere. Nowhere. Nowhere. I just left. I just left.
So you just packed your bag and just walked out the door and never went back?
No bags. Just left. One day, I'm just left, you know. And that's how I was.
But you must have gone somewhere.
Nowhere, you know. For a good time, I was between or sleeping outside.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What challenges did Chris Samba face when he chose to be homeless for football?
0:01–13:32
2
How did Chris Samba's journey lead him to Blackburn?
13:32–16:24
3
What was Chris Samba's experience during his trial at Blackburn?
16:24–35:08
4
How did Chris Samba adapt to the English football culture?
35:08–53:45
5
What impact did Chris Samba's leadership have on team dynamics?
53:45–54:54
6
How did Chris Samba transition into a captaincy role?
54:54–55:45
7
What challenges did Samba face during his time in Russia?
55:45–57:17
8
What lessons did Chris Samba learn from his experiences in England and abroad?
57:17–1:40:19