so along with the group least. we don't more. don't. russia and the us confirmed that the first official meeting between donald trump and lot of reporting will take place on july sixteenth. british intelligence report sheds light on the widespread torture of terror suspects and by the u.s. and u.k. in the wake of nine eleven. and of belgium defeats england on day fifteen of the world cup as the group stage comes to know. the latest on these stories and all of the action from the world cup. they're with us now for sofia. hello welcome to sophie and. not said they fifth out world cup two thousand and

eighteen is in full swing here in russia streets are flooded with hands and tourists especially here behind me in a red square but what does that mean for the players on the ground while i ask a legendary french football player a winner of the world cup ending here are christian. biggest sporting events in the world is heating up the fever world cup is moving into the playoffs stage where there are no second chances and everything is at stake how do the world class players deal with the world class pressure who will break down under the weight of expectations and who will thrive under it and what exactly does it take to emerge victorious some agrees stage sports has to offer. christian hi welcome to our show it's really great to have you with us so are you finding lasco so far are you enjoying. yeah how do i do so because first of all

it's very attractive and everybody going to discover what is russia and what is most. because they're in all the cities with all the venues and i think that they might turn to the way to see what is russia because this beautiful the sun is with us indeed the people who like to be here and love now russia so your first time here is no. say my income with preconditions you knew that was a cool place yeah i think russia is very beautiful places to go and to be. and again you are here with many sites we have the museum behind it we have also the risk. for sure that when we talk about books we stand on the red square there are many other thing to visit. churches you have beautiful architecture so so far when you discover more. so you have literally held in

your hands the world cup yes so what is it like. this is a dream come true since years ago we left the trophy in france in the homeland we hope that russia can do so. but again. like i said a story of mine if i may say that if i need to be selfish because when i was young i didn't understand that i could breathe. step by step working gradually become better and better and to be excellent at the others and to be the same level as the other professional and of course to become world champion he just something unique and great experience but does it actually feel as good as you think it will because you know people have this notion of happiness and goal that you want to reach there once you reach it many say it was the process that was important really. until that would enjoy the process because that moment is not as

ecstatic as with ordinary makes nation it is ecstatic to hold the world cup i can't imagine no because you see here like you see its holder ways the pathway how you reach your goal. is this is. to be the one to live the trophy oh no because too many obstacles there are too many temptation in your way and you need to avoid that you need to be very precise and to achieve this goal and daily need to work and to have also the commitment we do. to make because the teamwork and you need to be with them together as one but then that there are longer purses and shirt and shorts or process because like if you take one year span it's approximately what thirty eight games for each team today so like you know good number and you can actually work hard and put yourself on the map to thirty two teams yes there will be less games will be the thing is. you need to understand

that the elite is very how we say that demanding and when we talk about the elite we talk about we talk about clubs like here. so i think that is a big club but in europe of course they have this. freeze and to provide better players and so far when we talk about the world cup championship is the national team the best of the nations are playing here yet but my question is different when you have thirty eight games to play during one year you can gradually put yourself on the map but when you have three games ok and then the playoffs that you like. fresh air and not talking of course who this is a process to sell condensed of course is so compact a bit and you need to deliver one or two performances. best you can do the thing

is. everyone how the same goal and how the same. how we say the aim and with. the thing is the only few remain. so when i watched a football player some of them are like very focused on it and then there are others like an el nino or like always smiling like little kids and when they were me i always said like i wonder what's more important to be like super structured like i don't know the germans or have like this kid like late in you that makes you play the one of the best what do you think is more important to have this kid in you or to be super structured or the this is the value you know that you need to be diverse and when you do meaning that you came from many environment many background so you don't need to cut what is from yourself because when you talk about. you know for example that he's from the favelas in brazil you cannot tell him you

should be like this no you kill him if you do so but if he come with his own passion. he can believe what we expect and he can be one of the best so it's two different environment two different backgrounds so you know if the german play like this. if they if you should it's good for it is good for. so and it's good for competition good of competitiveness and that's our time our city of style and then there's the emotional component yeah like for the actors and for art's people or for journalists like when we reach great success then there is this emptiness to come some to that like and you don't know what to replace it with and when there is failure that's also just what is it for a football player what's harder to deal with great success or failure both both because i think that. what we are learning is trying to be successful

and to avoid failure is the failure is also. something to push you to be on the road to in your pathway to reach the goal and the success and the other one and india then failure can be also very very negative to you a pathway to korea because when you don't reach your goal you become may be a bad player may be. a master model later for instance i'm not going to be a loser i'm going to get over this that's why that we have. we have. coaches that we have. managed to motivate it's not easy you have the family to motivate it's not enough enough but at least if you have a good team mate if you are inspired by people were excellent i think you are drive

to go to reach your goal so to be driven to. when i was growing up i like looking at football there are like concrete gods of football it's like brazil france germany spain when you look at this world cup to me it's something incredible i don't think it's i don't think i've ever seen this before i mean yes there are always surprises but not to this point i mean this amazing teams that are always been established like part of the elite establishment are struggling with teams like iran tunisia. like my favorite out what's going on is that at the world for change is just part of the market we talk about globalization and i think with bullies doing so when we talk about statistics or we talk about new technology and how the same analysis anyway the words they can focus on one player they can focus on one club or one national team so they can. learn

quickly and only doctors they have in their hands so they can see that there's no more small nation more because they can really read everything and learn about the open and so you think. there is no gap anymore so you think the success of the other teams is due to access to the information yes of course now before the competencies. the all the knowledge is you have it through we do you kind of know you for every every couple of our missions and knowledge is so if you if i give you a million dollars right now yes just to spend it like this on the wind ok which team would you bet it on in this world cup one team pick one team too bad two words to win yes. i would put russia seriously we are home they are. also i want to talk to you about how much success of a teen at this point pretty determined by a good manager and

a coach is that enough or do you need to have a squad of stars in it or just one or to start writing and. the manager is the key of the success also when he drives his team to one goal and they need to respect that of course you need also to work and you can see that in the squad they were performing together. for. something better still they used one collective game and this is very good all right is it for instance one like the one huge star takes on a mission of a coach for instance like in ronaldo. or now the arm wrestle like everything's sort of like hands on the right thing no i think they they respect also the teammate the respect also the coaching. they were

a course in the end one star pool for the indian the spy of the need to inspire. the other so they need to make so much ns and present go by. scoring many goals inspire them so he's the one who has to follow the coach leave that because he know that he's the leader in the group but he can't. because if you can't the leadership. he loses it is the plan is it was debatable because in the zero finals i saw him giving instruction yesterdays and cheering them like he was the actual coach yeah he's also the yeah so it's normal for him to see. his own team to support the manager but of course to be to inspire them as a piece of the bunch and also like when i was watching argentina games i mean the commentators and the russian common errors i mean they were all about messi through these machines that oh my god what's wrong with messi wakin to score

a goal and i'm like oh my god this the success of the whole team is actually hanging on one of the majors like in the like neymar with brazil i think that it's normal to have names. out right is it for that star i mean it's a huge pressure yes it's a big pressure for them but the thing is if the people around him and his team it is doing well he will shine if they are not doing well. is this normal is a collective game everybody forgets that one. in the pitch is very important if one is not playing well you're going to have an balance to the team if two or three. player take a short break right now when we're back we'll continue talking to legendary football player question is the winner of world cup and euro stay with us.

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and we're back with chris shank ambo french legendary football player winner of euro and the world cup christian when you play football you always to commit fouls around the world cup is as serious as it gets like i guess coming like yes yes it's . like you're at the war or is it a gentlemanly game still. but there's no loss and there's no gentle and. there is no behavior as i think that we want to win and we want to lift the trophy . and so far i see one commitment in your life you need to try to reach this one and to go for it and whatever happened of course now we have the video to mention this. but still you are human being you need to respect of course respect the

adversity the open and but so far you are also built to be a worry to be a winner so so there are so many tournaments right now i need to read the mocks i can remember there's a seesaw world cup if a club world cup the general championship the champions league confederation cup olympic games yes i mean i don't know how can you force a balance between making a profit from get another high profile tournaments like this busy schedule i mean is it fair on the players today not meet time to rest recuperate this is what we are trying to talk about with a union of the players to have more. say that. to rest but also. freeze where they can increase in the clubs with the national team on. so i think if they pay you more money you can play all

these games and that you know when we talk about professionalism it's all about them and so about business what about physical capacity and that's what that's what we can also on hands to the team to footy players. and like this they can have a rotation but so far yes it's all about business because today when you talk about the events in the world is millions of viewers and this is normal and one billions of viewers is extra money. what about the viewers what you said i mean it's entertaining and you love to you know tuning in and watch a good football game but doesn't that like diversity the amount of diversity and amount of tournaments take away from the main prize to world cup it kind of to valley eight say no because in the end people from i don't know maybe people from. they can see where they can see lose the kids taught them they can see they can see

. another. country's playing in russia and this is very good they can see cars on the can over the country and look only at school but they can see what's happening in russia and this is good for everyone internationally is global so for a football player is there like this one price that you want to win like the world cup because for instance for actors it's always oscar yes and everything. and everything else is still salaskar but still everything else is secondary you know out for instance either on golden globe is important but not as important as the last three for football players as i would imagine it must be the world cup like you've seen the world cup you see in the champions what's the difference because when you're out of the club you want to tour on the shambles leagues and it's really about. how we say that price and you know that every year you can reach this level and that the world for years. so you have to wait four years every time but

you need to be in the squad with great performances it's not out of the scope of the national to so so for you to be. on the europa league tournament and to deliver something where you can be selected to be part of the national team squad to perform in the next world cup so. i was growing up in paris and watching you play football and when you're watching when you're playing for a national team and you had your issues this french national team remember that is it hard to play for a national team if you have that inside team i mean is it still like one hundred percent dedication to play for one country's team while you have that history that bothers you the thing is. i know so as if i play with the french national team i reprise on my people i represent france but also through my sort of person my people and this is good to give the business the visibility to my people

through me through school through food go through friends and to again to share information and to have a great communication the transparent communication about who am i where i come from and they're the french people understood my issue and then and there they respect that because it's normal that you are. from somewhere and nobody know you this is not newman. so you should make everybody understand and tv's radio. and now new technology i mean i understand because i'm in georgia and i'm living in russia and russia is my country but i always say like i love georgia probably more than russia because if you don't love yourself you cannot love anyone else and causation ok so i know what you mean so i remember like you refused to sing the national anthem and then when france tried to conduct nuclear tests near your country. new caledonia you actually had the whole team behind your protest did you

ever experience backlash from the french government for protesting no because. i mean the right path and i'm talking about truth reality. today we have a disease in. how say they create. viral disease in the. how we said it moved off for example we have many people have died a lot so they know then the sound the mistakes i did talk about this for me it's normal because first of all we are human beings and we talk as human beings after that we'll talk about politics and i think it was my feeling to talk about it and i still i'm doing some documentaries all around the world to talk about people. leaving aside because they should to be to leave aside as if we are now in the

twenty first censors but i mean honestly you know like the first you know when asked to protest something socially or politically french in america the americans and ballplayers presence ensuring the anthem and the president got involved do you feel like. this protests they bring awareness or do they know it people. i think that it's always. each country have a different story and environment by ground and for sure that in america for example as if mr obama becomes president. four years ago two years ago i think that he's sorry his presidency. never talk about their own. history. because they do the amount men begin to talk about their own. story who are the who are meant to who came in america and how they the

robinson and this is very crucial to make everybody understand who they come from who they are and to be together and to understand together in the same country to be american no a for america no way to american what is this oh you are american or we are not and this is our purpose in the. university we talk about this because you screw soul today to to understand the person we are human being there's no nothing else. we trace this one race human race. as if you. know whatever and we talk about it this is just a biological challenge. but there is agreement human race but there is a pre-condition in people's mind in terms of profession you know like for instance a well known aflat you know when people when he protests or she protested for

a looking and the common accusation is like what do you know about our problems you knowing you're making so much money you're living it translates to you're so detached you're reality laden what eve protesting about so we can say that but the thing is somehow we need to do stuff. because it's not the problem remains and also we need to start to eradicate the imaginary of people where the system put this on the loop and the norman know we need to make that change and it's normal for the human being for the nature to change. and get back to the football so i always wondered ok but the food you know all of you guys play for different clubs and there are stars of the clubs and then once you're back in the national team often when you face of another team you're playing against your playmates and in the club yes i i mean. and understand what you must be going

through because for for instance a it's a good thing because you know he's pros and cons so you can out when that person but you also have that bond with that person that you don't want to be fighting with because you in other circumstances you're fighting together yes but the same when you. when you have them a scene you do a scene you can be i don't know if you can be you can you can get with this and you can win oscars the other saying you don't or another movie you don't say no it's not course because then i say to you is the meaning that when we go to another championship is to learn and to gain experience. what do you feel when you're playing your mate from the club through this yes that's why this way the thing is before and this is european history in food but the thing that before everyone remain in their own championship in their own countries the european nation has was

created so we can play in europe so we can move from france italy spain and each a friendship is very valuable and very competitive so so far we go to do something to be comforted also as a footballer and therefore we know from back when we come back to the national team rich of this knowledge is and we can perform better and this is everyone scientists from russia can go somewhere asked to give his knowledge to a change and come back here to be better and this is the same in every countries when you turn so much competence is informations you get better. you're talking about changing clubs you're talking about changing clubs i'm talking about once you play in a club is the sense that on a national level you play a game you get a person with whom you're fighting for the club yes but this is normal this is a. it turned to you do this in tempering is you can do this is

the same. is the market is a business scintilla i want to become a coach no one i. know because i have done already in the pits during twenty years so i want to be a part i want to be more behind the scene and to care about management about players to get about the. pathway to succeed yes question thank you very much of a century and really wish you all the best thank you everything entertaining in the chair and gershon. into. the.

basis telling free fall races tell basket case racism is a lost cause and lost country italy is about to crash because the money is being printed and the e.c. be printed trillions of euro's it doesn't go to help these economies it goes to monaco it goes the people in monaco and it goes on to twenty one twenty two trillion dollars estimated offshore money that's matters for these people that get all the free money from the central banks of the sea the manifestation of it in monaco. i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch to the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money kill the narrowness and spending to get to the twenty million one playa. it's an experience like nothing

else not to be true so i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy was great so what more chance with. the thinks it's more nudes. i.