The Beautiful Game Podcast

For Wayne Rooney To Even Know My Name Was Massive! - Carlos Richards

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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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