SPAIN: REAL MADRID-BOUND SOCCER MIDFIELDER STEVE MCMANAMAN PLAYS DOWN CRITICISM OF FANS

Record ID: 985206

  • Title: SPAIN: REAL MADRID-BOUND SOCCER MIDFIELDER STEVE MCMANAMAN PLAYS DOWN CRITICISM OF FANS
  • Date: 5th March 1999
  • Summary: MADRID, SPAIN/FILE (MARCH 5, 1999/FILE - 1997)(RTN/CELTIC FC - PART SCHEDULED NEWS ONLY, PART NO ACCESS UK) MADRID (MARCH 5 1999)(RTN) 1. EXTERIOR VIEWS OF BERNABEU STADIUM / SIGN ABOVE STADIUM 2. STEVE MCMANAMAN ENTER NEWS CONFERENCE, THEY SHAKE HANDS FILE GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (SEPTEMBER 1997) (CELTIC FC NO ACCESS UK) 3. STEVE MCMANAMAN RUNS TO SCORE GOAL TO SCORE FOR LIVERPOOL MADRID, SPAIN (MARCH 5, 1999) (RTN) 4. NEWS CONFERENCE 5. (SOUNDBITE)(ENGLISH) MCMANAMAN says, "firstly I think it will make me a better player, I think you have to adapt to diffent styles and techniques if you want to improve your game, and hopefully that is what I will do, three, four years down the line I'll be a much better player than I am now with a lot more experience." 6. PHOTOGRAPHERS 7. (SOUNDBITE)(ENGLISH) MCMANAMAN says, "I think the Liverpool public and fans in general have been fantastic towards me, very positive. Recently the team itself hasn't been, hasn't got the right results and therefore there was a bit of frustration that's all really, frustration in the fans, frustration in the team. I don't think I was deliberately singled out like a lot of people have made me out to be I think the frustration was borne out of not getting the right results. The team were the same, the fans were the same. Admittedly it is a slightly difficult time at the moment but I knew that, and I was ready for that, but generally speaking the fans around the area of Liverpool where I live have been very, very positive." 8. WIDE VIEW OF NEWS CONFERENCE 9. (SOUNDBITE)(SPANISH) LORENZO SANZ, PRESIDENT OF REAL MADRID SAYING: "We're very proud he's decided to come to Real Madrid because he's had lots of offers from the best teams in Europe and he's chosen Real Madrid because he wants to come to us. We appreciate that and hope that he feels at home with us." 10. SCU REPORTER 11. (SOUNDBITE)(ENGLISH) MCMANAMAN SAYS "and hopefully I can get back in the England squad as soon as possible really." 12. (SOUNDBITE) ENGLISH MCMANAMAN SAYS "AT THE TIME OF MAKING MY DECISION I HAD TEN OF TWELVE YEARS, FANTASTIC YEARS, AT LIVERPOOL AND I THOUGHT THE TIME WAS RIGHT FOR MY CAREER FOR MY WHOLE LIFE EXPERIENCE, IT WAS A BIG STAGE REALLY. IT CERTAINLY WAS A MAJOR POINT IN DOING THAT." 13. WIDE VIEW OF NEWS CONFERENCE Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: MADRID, SPAIN
  • Country: Spain
  • Reuters ID: LVA79YN1OFI7S826FZDV6HJPHJYI
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