KYLE WALKER has launched a podcast with Love Island star Chris Hughes to mark a new step in his career.
The BBC show is called You’ll Never Beat Kyle Walker and will be available every Wednesday.
Sunderland supporter Hughes said: “Each week Kyle and I are going to kick back and talk football.
“We’ll tell stories of the beautiful game, dig through Kyle’s footballing journey and find out what it takes to win.”
Walker, 34, becomes the latest football star to launch a podcast.
Ex-England international Peter Crouch has an award-winning show which he co-hosts with radio presenter Chris Stark and Steve Sidwell.
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Walker – who has just welcomed his newborn son Rezon into the world – launched the pod ahead of England’s Euro 2024 campaign.
The full-back has been a regular in Gareth Southgate’s squad in the 2018 and 2022 World Cups as well as the delayed Euros in 2021.
But he will not be joined by long-time international team-mate Marcus Rashford and Jordan Henderson, who were omitted by Southgate.
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Kyle Walker opened up on his time spent at Spurs and City in episode one with some hilarious tales.
Walker named Gareth Bale, Luka Modric, David Silva and Kevin De Bruyne among the best he played with.
Neymar and Eden Hazard also stood out as the greatest he came up against.
The defender tipped Chelsea’s Reece James as the best right-back in the world when probed.
And Walker also revealed how former Spurs team-mate Son Heung-min was so popular in South Korea they had to trick fans during a pre-season tour.
He said: “We would do an appearance, me, Sonny, Ben Davies, Kevin Wimmer and we’d have to send a dummy vehicle pretending that Sonny has gone.
“All these people would start running, they’d corner the vehicle, see Sons not in there and we’d be away.
“Then they’d come back to the hotel we were staying in and all night they’d be there. Never seen anything like it.”
Walker told Sky Sports: “If the gaffer thinks it’s the right squad to pick, I believe and I fully trust in what he does.
“He’s been fantastic since the minute he has walked through the door.
“Obviously when you have shared such great moments with the likes of Marcus and Hendo and been on a journey together you do feel a little bit sad they are not going to be there.
“But the manager thinks that’s the best thing for the country and I am fully behind him and fully back him in that.”
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
