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Introducing... You'll Never Beat Kyle Walker

Kyle Walker takes you inside the dressing room to find out what it takes to be a winner

Each week ,Man City and England international, Kyle Walker and presenter Chris Hughes take you inside the dressing room to find out what it takes to win over and over again.

Each week, Man City and England international, Kyle Walker and presenter and Love Island star Chris Hughes take you inside the dressing room and onto the team bus to find out what it takes to win over and over again.

The pair will talk about the beautiful game, have a bit of a laugh, tell funny stories about football and dig into Kyle’s career as a serial champion. From his earliest days growing up in Sheffield, You’ll Never Beat Kyle Walker will put the listener in the unique position of finding out what it takes to win seventeen major honours, including Premier Leagues, Champions Leagues, and FA Cups, as well as leading his country out at Wembley as captain of England. 

Kyle will reflect on his time in the game, the players he’s played with and against, the managers, and the highs and lows of football at the very top. He’ll talk World Cups and Euros, teammates past and present, and what it feels like to be one v one against Lionel Messi. 

You’ll Never Beat Kyle Walker will give listeners a true insight into what it’s really like to be at the top of the game for so long. 

Kyle is taking over The Players Channel: Real football talk...straight from The Players! 

Previous titles include Footballer's Football Podcast featuring West Ham's Michail Antonio, Callum Wilson, Tom Cairney and Radio 1's Rickie Haywood-Williams as well as 'Football Firsts' with Jermain Defoe and Troy Deeney who discuss a range of topics revolving around the first time they experienced something in football. You can listen to all these episodes right now on this feed.

You'll Never Beat Kyle Walker: Defoe & Deeney Football Firsts: First Time Training with the First Team

First Time Training with the First Team

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Troy and Jermain talk about the first time you get asked to train with the 1st team

Troy and JD recall when they first got called up to train with the big boys. They reveal how fierce the competition is and how new arrivals shake things up on the training ground

Troy and Jermain take us inside the training grounds and that feeling the first time you train with the first team. They tell us about the levels of competition within a squad and how jealousy can rear its head.

JD recalls how Edgar Davids and Wilson Palacios shook things up at Tottenham, the guys discuss when they realised they’d become the old men of the dressing room and a chat about players that didn’t train properly leads to the mercurial Adel Taraabt.

You'll Never Beat Kyle Walker: Defoe & Deeney Football Firsts

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Jermain Defoe and Troy Deeney discuss their first experiences in football

Jermain Defoe and Troy Deeney take you into the football world through their eyes as they reveal the first time they experienced seminal moments in their playing careers

First game, first goal. First red card, first rollicking from the manager...Join Jermain Defoe and Troy Deeney as they explain how it really feels to experience the highs and lows of being a professional footballer.

From the elation of making your debut to the shame of being sent off, you'll get the full picture of what it is really like as they take you into the rarified world of the Premier League. They'll reveal what Jose Mourinho says to you after beating his team at Old Trafford, the sheer joy when you score for England at the World Cup and how it feels seeing your name on a fan's shirt. You'll get the inside story on the players, managers and referees and what they are really like on and off the pitch.

If ever you've always wondered what it's like to be a pro footballer, this podcast tells it all.

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