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Teaser - The Interview: Jesper Blomqvist (Ep. 59)
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Podcast Introduction
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The following is a clip from this week's Italian football podcast.
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Pre-AC Milan Offers
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Aside from AC Milan, who you subsequently went to, did you have any other offers from other clubs before signing from Milan?
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The year 1996, when I signed for AC Milan, I think I had more or less all top flight clubs. Barcelona came to visit Gothenburg and we spoke to them.
The Dream Essay and Its Fulfillment
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I spoke to Sir Alex, United, Kevin Keegan, Newcastle, Sampdoria, Witz, Wenger and Ericsson. I spoke to him as well. So, it really basically was almost all the bigger clubs who had some money to spend.
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But I also had my dream since I was like 16, 17 years old and I even wrote, I don't know if you heard about this Nima probably, but I wrote an essay in school writing about my dream to sign for AC Milan and even had a cappello as a coat. And this was like three
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five years before I signed and I was still playing in the Swedish division one, you know, and very far from the professional football. But I had a dream and I wrote it down and five years later I was signing that contract with the AT Milan.