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How to Win a World Cup with Gary Lineker and Cesc Fabregas

By: Gary Lineker, Cesc Fabregas
Narrated by: Gary Lineker, Cesc Fabregas
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  • Summary

  • Football legend Gary Lineker and Spain’s World Cup winning midfielder Cesc Fabregas take a fun and entertaining look at what it takes to win the biggest prize in football.

    Across 14 episodes, they discuss whether your team needs a footballing genius, a top manager, the best tactics, a large slice of luck or some other secret ingredient!

    Gary and Cesc’s quest for the World Cup winning formula is a roller coaster ride full of larger than life footballing characters, secret dressing room tales and hilarious incidents on and off the field.

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  • Ep 1: Genius
    Nov 10 2022

    Do you need to have a genius in your team to win a World Cup? 

    How do coaches and teammates accommodate a genius and if you don’t have one how do you compensate? 

    Gary and Cesc recall what it’s like playing with and against the likes of Messi and Maradona and how their genius can impact the whole dressing room.

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    30 mins
  • Ep 2: Goalscorer
    Nov 10 2022

    If you want to win football matches then scoring plenty of goals usually helps. But does having the tournament’s top goalscorer mean you are guaranteed silverware? A look at recent history would suggest it may not be clear cut.

    This is Gary’s chance to defend the art of the goalscorer and explain the mentality needed to be the very best. Meanwhile Cesc wonders whether England might need to do the unthinkable and drop Harry Kane if they want to lift the trophy.

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    33 mins
  • Ep 3: Get on the Plane
    Nov 10 2022

    You can’t win a World Cup if you’re not there in the first place. In this episode Gary and Cesc discuss some of the great omissions from World Cups and the surprise players who came from nowhere to star at the tournament.

    They also debate the value of a genuine squad player and Cesc reveals the extraordinary story of Pepe Reina’s key role in the 2010 Spanish World Cup winning squad.

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    29 mins

Gary's dream team

With years as a footballer and his time spent hosting Match of the Day under his belt, we've called upon Gary Lineker to share his football audiobook recommendations! Here he selects nine fantastic stories about footballers and football managers - perfect post How to Win a World Cup listening!

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Highly recommend!

Really enjoyed this show, it's perfect listening just before and while the World Cup is on. The connection between Gary and Cesc makes it really easy listening and hearing endless brilliant stories from two of the greats of the game is an absolute joy. I'll never be able to look at chocolate croissants and Nesquik the same way...!

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Easy listening

Full of interesting World Cup history.
Enjoyed hearing both Cesc's & Gary's WCup experiences.

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Such a great listen

Brilliant stories, such good insight, sounds great and is captivating and genuinely entertaining. Highly recommend!

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Everything you could want in a football podcast

The insight, stories and depth of information never heard before was truly fascinating. Absolute amazing listen just before yer World Cup as well.

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SIMPLY AMAZING

Such a brilliant concept for a podcast, love the chemistry between Gary and Cesc and tonnes of good stories that I hadn't heard before. Have binge listened to almost all of the episodes this morning - wish there were more!

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A brilliant podcast

This podcast is great. It's brilliant to listen to Gary Lineker and Cesc Fabregas talk about their World Cup experience with their national teams.

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Brilliant

It amazing to listen to and great stories
Lineker and Fabregas are great to listen too



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Helpful insight

Enjoyed this podcast very much, I am not a full time fan, euros and the world's excepted.

This have me a better understanding of the game and players so thank you both.

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Brilliant footy podcast

Two legends of football, great topics with lots of stories and anecdotes. a fantastic listen.

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