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Christian Falk (@cfbayern) currently works as the head of football @sportbild and @BILD_sport, the sports section of Bild, the best-selling European newspaper with the sixteenth-largest circulation worldwide.  As THE Bayern Munich Insider, he has gained notoriety for his "True " or "Not True" reporting,  his weekly podcast, "Bayern Insider", and his two books on Bayern, aptly named "Inside FC Bayern" and "Bayern Insider".  He has been reporting on FC Bayern since 2000, and has accompanied the German national team to all tournaments since the 2004 European Championship, and currently acts as the team leader of the national team reporters. 

In this episode, we aim to get an inside look into the insider (see what we did there) - to get behind the man that is Christian Falk and gain insight as to how he has built the name, reputation, and network to get where he is today. 

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Markus Fjørtoft (@markusfjortoft) and Ciaran McKenna (CiaranMcKenna8) talk to Derek Rae (@RaeComm), the legendary Scottish football commentator. His distinguishable voice has vividly guided millions through the bliss and torment of some of the most iconic football games the world has seen in the last three decades. In this special episode, Derek takes us through his love for football and linguistics, starting as a small kid in rural Aberdeen listening to German radio, his move to the US when the sport was only at its infancy, the making of a successful tournament and the players that wowed him, his notorious dedication to pronunciations, the key insight of becoming a FIFA commentator, and an incredible outro to top it all off. This is the legend that is Derek Rae...

Derek Rae is a Scottish football commentator working for ESPN and the Bundesliga/DFL World Feed. Derek has had a distinguished career covering and commentating on football worldwide from the Scottish Premiership to MLS and, more recently, the Bundesliga, as well as in most major international tournaments from the 1990s onwards. In addition, he has been the lead commentator on the popular football video game FIFA for the past three years (having been involved since 2019). He was awarded the 1987 British Sports Broadcaster of the Year. 

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Michael Stewart is a Scottish former footballer. He began his professional career at Manchester United, and played for both Edinburgh rivals, Hearts and Hibernian. He also had spells at Nottingham Forest and Charlton, and during his career he was capped four times for Scotland. 

Following retirement, Michael has worked as a pundit for BBC Scotland, BT Sport and The Scottish Sun. Furthermore, Michael has started to forge a career into politics, participating in broadcasted political debates and sharing political commentary with his over 100k followers on Twitter.

Michael talks to Markus and Ciaran about how it was growing into an adult at Manchester United, the gradual process in finding the aspired for balance in succeeding both on and off the field, how his move to Manchester sparked his interest in politics, and the subsequent defiance of "sticking to football" which has led him on a path towards carving a role for himself in politics.

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Matt Rizzetta is currently the chairman of North Sixth Group, a family office holding company with a vision to invest in passion, purpose and progress. North Sixth Group has wholly owned and minority interests in various investments across multiple sectors, including real estate, media, technology, travel, and sports and entertainment. The company's notable assets are North 6th Agency, a leading brand communications firm Rizzetta founded in 2010 and served as CEO from 2010 to 2020. Under his leadership, the agency has been ranked as one of the 50 most powerful agencies in the United States. Another asset owned by North Sixth Group is SS Campobasso, a professional football club based in Italy's Serie C. Additionally, the group has recently purchased a 31% ownership stake in Italy's Serie B side Ascoli Calcio, with the option to purchase up to 51% by the end of the 21/22 season. 

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Jay Heaps is an American former professional soccer player who is currently the President and General Manager of Alabama-based USL Championship team Birmingham Legion FC. Following four years as a double-athlete at Duke University - he competed with both the Men's soccer team and Men's basketball team (under Coach K) and won the Hermann Trophy (best college soccer player) - Jay made the transition to professional soccer in the MLS beginning at Miami Fusion. After two seasons there, where he won MLS Rookie of the year, Jay moved to New England Revolution, where he spent the rest of his playing career making a total of 243 appearances. In addition, Jay earned 4 US men's national team caps, all coming in the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup. Since retiring from soccer in 2009, Jay wasted no time in pursuing careers off the field. He spent two years at Morgan Stanley as a private wealth manager before heading back to soccer as manager of the New England Revolution, where he remained until 2017. 

Jay Heaps (@JayHeaps722) talks to Markus Fjørtoft (@markusfjortoft) and Ciaran McKenna (@ciaranmckenna8) about an extraordinary career molded by both natural and applied excellence. Jay's innate talent coupled with an extreme competitiveness has allowed him to succeed as both a player, coach, wall street wealth manager, and now in the dual role as President and General Manager at newly-started USL Championship team Birmingham Legion. Impressive is an understatement, and we're thrilled to share this episode with you!

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Here We Go! Fabrizio Romano finds the time to talk to us amid all the transfer window chaos! We talk with him about: his background, creating and maintaining his network and how that has changed as he has gotten bigger, how he works a transfer (using the recent Varane transfer as an example), what is in it for the clubs and agents to give him information, and how he looks to develop and expand. 

Fabrizio Romano is an Italian journalist from Naples. He is best known for his knowledge and reporting of football transfers, to the extent where he is considered one of the most trusted transfer-related pundits in football. He began working for Sky Sports Italy at the early age of 19 and has since created an excellent network with clubs, agents, and intermediaries all over Europe. He is renowned for his famous tagline on Twitter, “here we go,” which he uses when announcing a new transfer deal. Romano also writes for The Guardian and has over 4 million followers on Twitter. 

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Born and bred in Mallorca, Antoni (@Aordinas) grew up playing centre-back for a few local teams, including CD Llosetense. He embarked on his UEFA Pro License in his early 30s and coached at youth level for numerous clubs in the Balearic Islands. He made the move to Norway in 2013, where he began coaching at the Norwegian School of Elite Sport, alongside coaching for Norwegian Premiership side Stabæk. While gravitating towards youth football, as both Reserve Team Coach and Youth Technical Director, he became Stabæk Head Coach in 2016, where he remained until the summer of 2018. Highly respected and influential, Toni played a significant role in building up Stabæk´s academy to become one of the best, if not the best, academy in Norway. He then moved on from Stabæk at the beginning of 2019 to begin his new role as Football Academy Director at Lillestrøm SK, another Norwegian Premiership Club. LSK started five academy products in the latest league outing, the highest tally in the 2021 league season. 

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Tom (@denty24) started his coaching journey studying Sports Science and Coaching at Brunel University in London, while simultaneously gaining experience working with the Fulham FC Foundation. Following University, he quickly headed to Norway where he started off at the lower league side Follo FK as GK coach for all age groups from the u14s to the first team and coupled with managing the Follo FK youth teams. This experience led him to become assistant manager at 2nd division side Stjørdals-Blink for 10 months before he moved on to become Head Coach of the u19s and reserve team at 2021 Premiership Champions Bodo Glimt, where he focused on player development. He has now recently returned to Stjørdals-Blink earning the 1st team Head Coach role.    

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Kevin is a former Scottish footballer who has been playing and coaching in Norway for the last 16 years. Clubs played for include Raith Rovers, Hibernian, Strømsgodset, and Haugesund.  He is now an assistant coach at Mjøndalen in the Norwegian Premiership (Eliteserien). 

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