you face insults harassment and even violence. perpetrated. the. hello and welcome to sophie and co i'm sophie shevardnadze they fifth out world cup two thousand and eighteen is in full swing here in russia streets are flooded with fans and tourists especially here behind me in a red square but what does that mean for the players on the ground when i ask a legendary french football player a winner of the world cup ending you were a cop christian. biggest sporting event in the

world is heating up the fifa world cup is moving into the playoffs stage when 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 in the greece stage sports has to offer. christian hi welcome to our show it's really great to have you with us so are you finding moscow so far are you enjoying it. do so because first of all it's very attractive. so for everybody going to discover what is russia and what is most of those will come because there are all the cities with all the venues and i think they turn to the way to see what is russia because it's beautiful the sun is with us indeed the people who like to be here now are russian so your first time here is it you know

it's the same line come with preconditions and you knew that it was a cool place i think russia is very beautiful places to go and to be. and again you are here we must see the many sides we have the museum. but we have also the risk for sure that when we talk about that on the red square there are many other things to visit. churches you have beautiful architecture so far when you discover more. so you have literally held in your hands. yes what is away. is a dream come true since years ago we left 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. step by step the world king. had really become better and better and to be the others and to be the same level as the other profession and of course to become world champion is just something unique and a great experience but does it actually feel as good as you think it will because you know people have this notion of happiness a goal that you want to reach through and there once you reach it many say it was the process that was really important to bed with and enjoy the process because that moment is not as ecstatic as we thought interim makes nation it is static to hold the world cup i can't imagine no because you see here like you see it's whole the ways the pathway how you reach your goal. is this is prepare yourself to be the one to leave the trophy or not because too many obstacles there are too

many temptations 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 him to make because the team work and you need to be with them together as one but then that there are longer. persis isn't short across shorter process because like if you take one year span it's approximately one thirty eight games for each team too late which is 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 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 great big club but in europe of course they have this code to win trophies 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 yet but my question was 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 for us pressure is not short term thing of course is a process is still condensed of course. but and you need to do. one or two performances to qualify best you can do the thing is. everyone how the same goal and how the same. how you say the aim and with the victory the thing is the only few remain. so when i watched a football player some of them are like very focused on a pitch and then there are others like an el nino or like always smiling like

little kids through and within me i always say 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 that he would bomb. this is the value you know that you need to be diverse and when you do diverse 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 skills or talent for example that is from the formulas in brazil you cannot say tell him you should be like this no you kill him already if you do so but if he come with his own passion. he can deliver what we don't expect and he can be one of the best so. two different environment two different backgrounds so you know if the german play like this. if they are efficient they can it's good for it is good for so and it's good for

competitions good of competitiveness and that's our time or city 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 tears a place where and when there is failure that's also just a sad 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 best failure is also. something to push you to be on the. 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 may be. a moderator for instance saying i'm not going to be a loser i'm going to get over this that's why that we have all the material we have . sportive coaches they we have. 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 who 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 make it something incredible i don't think it's i don't think i've ever seen this before i mean yeah there are always surprises but not to this point i mean these amazing teams that

are always been established like part of the elite establishment are struggling with teams like iran tunisia my solutions like my favorite out what's going on in state at the change. in the market we talk about globalization and i think with bullies doing so when we talk about statistics to 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 that as they have in their hands so they can see that there's no more small nation more because they can't really read everything and learn about the open and so you think. there's no got any more 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

every every couple of permissions and knowledge is so if you if i give you a million dollars right now 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 to too work. 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 two stars or anything. 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 these one collective game and this is very good how right is it for instance one like one huge star takes on a mission of a coach versus like in ronaldo. or now there are messi like everything's sort of like hands on the right thing you know i think they they respect also the teammate the respect also the coaching theory of 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 on this and for some though by. scoring many goals he inspired 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 cut that because if you can't believe the shit. you lose the

thing is the plan is it's i was debatable cause in the zero finals i saw him giving instruction yesterday he said cheering the like he was the actual coach yes yeah because he's also on the call yet so it's normal for him to seclude his own. 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 messy messy least messy that oh my god what's wrong with messi awaken 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. with i think that it's normal to have names. out right is it for that star i mean it's a huge pressure yeah it's too big but the thing is if the people who are his

teammate is doing well he will shine if they are not doing well. is this normal. everybody forgets the one. in the pits is very important if one playing well they're going to have an balance of the two if two or three students. take a short break right now when we're back we'll continue talking to legendary football player christian is the winner of the world cup and stay with us.

originally the thought is drug texting us it has taken care of our cars just please stop me from feeling most of them from a completely different cause i would just. as done that. the problem is that we can know how they stayed within the state they call a nice safe this non parked office we did. not want to get on the computer. and ducked out. no no and pacing up slow stop stop stop stop. no good my culture is christian country and we don't do things like that and we will tell you if you do then we hate you and someday hopefully you can do something about this stuff. we can not be naive about just to not attract more gangsters rapists and these words actually that are tearing

down this city we wants to be a swedish country and we want to know the people who live here and now to go back.

no not. at all see clearly all your. and we're back with chris shankar on both french legendary football player winner of euro and the world crap christian when you play football you always that can make solid sound world cup is as serious as it gets make i guess common and yes yes it's. like you're at the war or is it

a gentlemanly game stale. but there's no loss and there's no gentle and. there's 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 a human being you need to respect of course respect the diversity the open them but so far you are also built to be. to be a winner so so there are so many tournaments right now i need to reach democracy i can't remember there's a seesaw world cup he thought club world cup the general champ. and ship to 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. how you say that. there are. to rest but also. freeze where they can increase in the clubs with the national team also i think if they pay you more money you can play all those games and that you know when we talk about professionalism it's all about the money it's all about business what about physical capacity and that's what that's what we can also enhance the team to forty players. and like this they can have a rotation but so far yes it's all about business because today when we talk about the events in the world is millions of viewers and this is normal and i won millions of viewers is extra money. what about the viewers which is sad i mean yes

it's entertaining and you love to you know tuning in and watch a good football game but there isn't that like diversity the amount of diversity and the mount of tournaments take away from the main prize to world cup it kind of devaluates it no because in the end people from i don't know maybe people from. they can see where they can see lose the case study them they can see they can see . another. countries playing in russia and this is very good they can see cousin they can discover the country and look only at school but they can see what's happening in russia and this is good for everyone is international is global so for a flip. 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 no doubt for instance 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 league what's the difference this time because when you're out of the club you want to tour the shambles leagues is really about. how we say that price and you know that every year you can reach this level and the world for years so you need 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 and to perform in the next work 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 french national team for

a member that is it hard to play for a national team if you have that inside you 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 to myself i represent 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 a clear transparent communication about who i 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 know love anyone else on causation only 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 to 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 talking about truth reality. today we have a disease in the. house said they create. viral disease.

we said move off for example we have many people have died a lot so they know then the sound the mistakes but 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 another thing but it was my feeling to talk about it and still i'm doing some documentaries all around the world to talk about people who are leaving aside because they shoes to be to leave aside as if we are now in the twenty first censors i mean honestly you know like the first and no one asked to protest something socially or politically friends in america the americans and ballplayers process and touring the anthem and the president got involved do you feel like. this protests they bring awareness or do they know if 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 it they own. history. because they do the math men begin to talk about their own story who are the who are meant to who came in america and how they the loved ones 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. and this is our purpose in the. how about university we talk about this because you screw so today

. to understand that first we are human beings there's no nothing else. we trace this one race human race. as if you. know whatever and we talk about this is just a biological challenge. but there is a group like human race but there is a pre-condition in people's mind in terms of professions like for instance a well known aflat you know when people when he protests or she protested were looking and the common accusation is like what do you know about our problems you know when you're making so much money you're living it translates to you're so detached your reality like what are you proudest think about so we can say that but the thing is somehow we need to do stuff. because. if 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 they do it last moment no we need to make the

change and it's normal is for the human being for the nature to change so i get back to the football so i always wondered ok but the food got me all of you guys in this play for a different club than your stars at this 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 mean i 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 are in other circumstances you're fighting together yes but the same when you're in t.v. . 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 in that with this and you can when they are 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 in that setting but what do you feel when you're playing your mate from the club through the chest that's where the sway 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 competitive also as a footballer and therefore we know from back when we come by. to the national team rich of this knowledge and we can perform better and this is everyone scientists from russia can go somewhere asked to give his knowledge to change and come back

here to be better and this is the same. in every countries when you. 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 just the same that on a national level you play a game you get a person with whom fighting for the club yes this is normal this is a. country you do this in companies you can do that this is the same. is the market is a business scintilla want to become a coach you know when i. know because i have done already. doing twenty years so i want to be a part i want to be more behind the scene to care about management about players to care about. their 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. in the. remember when the political left stood up for free speech and equality for all in public life remember when the mainstream media called for the same the tone and tenor of political discourse appears to be the turning point if you don't agree with the left you face insults harassment and even. join me everything. simon chill and i'll be speaking to. i'm sure. i'll see that.

nine hours of deliberation leaders have reached an agreement. including the setting up of special. speeding up the extradition process. a prominent us child abuse campaign a nobel peace prize nominee has been arrested by the f.b.i. . and france tries to foster a nation. making it a compulsory for primary school children to learn both the country's national. joy . and finally the group stage of the twenty eighteen world cup and russia is only sixteen.