Owen Hargreaves: England's Forgotten Legend Reveals What It Took to Silence Critics and Survive Sir Alex (E347)

And I remember standing in the tunnel next to Figo and he look he literally looked like God. He was like glowing. And I remember standing in the tunnel thinking, I'm in trouble, yeah. We lost to Portugal. And I walked through the mix zone and all those guys that asked me why I was there gave me a a clap.

They knew they were wrong. So I said to the doc, I'm gonna go see this guy. The England doc set it up. And I remember he said to me, he said, I'm I'm not sure you're ever gonna play again. I just felt like life had left my body.

That is the distinctive voice of Owen Hargreaves, the Canadian-born midfielder who conquered Europe with Bayern Munich and Manchester United, changed opinions when he was England's player of the tournament at the World Cup in 2006, and of course then had his career cruelly robbed from him due to injury. You know, most football fans know all of those things, but I think what they don't really know is that Owen walked into a dressing room full of megastars as a teenager at Bayern Munich, learning from the best. despite not speaking a word of German, thousands of miles from home. They don't know that despite years of sacrifice and struggle and success, including winning the Champions League, he was booed by the press when England announced he was in their World Cup squad. I mean, there were some breathtaking moments in this conversation, actually, Damien.

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