Edwin van der Sar’s 19 Quickfire questions with Gary neville | The Overlap

0:00Gary Neville: So we'll just do it as a... Right, you're in the interview booth. Yeah? I think it's the place. Do you want to do it in the tunnel? The tunnel's quite busy. There's no way we can go in the changing room, is there? Like, even... No.

0:12Edwin van der Sar: Do it in the tunnel.

0:13Gary Neville: In the tunnel?

0:13Edwin van der Sar: The groups will come through.

0:14Gary Neville: Okay. Let's do it in the tunnel.

0:16Edwin van der Sar: Great.

0:17Gary Neville: Is there any way we can do less than 34? Is there another number that's, like, good for Edwin? What's your favourite number? One.

0:26Gary Neville: We need, like...

0:27Edwin van der Sar: Is there another number? How many troves are you in? I wouldn't have a clue.

0:31Gary Neville: But you must have known I'm a trophy. You must know I'm a trophy.

0:33Edwin van der Sar: Number 19, the first number that I got at United. My first year because Ferguson didn't want to take away the number one from Tim Howard. So you were number 19

0:43Gary Neville: first season? Yeah. Right, OK. We were 19 questions.

0:48Edwin van der Sar: We had 34.

0:50Gary Neville: We had 34. Go on.

0:53Edwin van der Sar: Oh, my God, Gary. Oh, we are so big friends.

0:56Gary Neville: OK, go on. Go on. Go on. OK.

1:00Edwin van der Sar: He's loving it.

1:02Gary Neville: Thank you. Thank you. Where's it, Edward?

1:11Edwin van der Sar: Where are these questions? Go on. Thank you. Right.

1:16Gary Neville: Here we go. Where are you, Edward? Come on. Oh, really? You're still there. Right. Someone add up. Count these questions.

1:23Edwin van der Sar: See you later.

1:24Gary Neville: See you later. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Okay, go on. Thanks very much, thank you Let me just get through there Where are you going? We're going to do it in here, with the home team That's nice, is that nice?

1:39Edwin van der Sar: I have no idea Get the home team in

1:42Gary Neville: We're just in the entrance of the home team corridor And these are our quick five questions And I'm going to give you 19 And I'm going to let Manchester United fans Work out why it's 19

1:55Gary Neville: The hardest striker that you've ever come up against. Who had the better of you?

2:01Edwin van der Sar: Romario.

2:02Gary Neville: Oh, he was nice. Honestly, what a player.

2:05Edwin van der Sar: Sometimes the ball was just a little bit in front of him. Okay, now it can come out. And he just stretched whatever and he just chipped it over you.

2:11Gary Neville: Was that when he was at PSV? Yeah. What a player, by the way. The best goalkeeper ever.

2:22Gary Neville: Peter Schmeichel. Wow. Good choice. Well done. What's your ultimate five-a-side team but Dutch? Your ultimate Dutch five-a-side team.

2:33Edwin van der Sar: Frank Reichert, Dennis Burkamp, Edgar Davids and Frank de Boer.

2:42Gary Neville: John Cruyff. That's four. John Cruyff. What about Van Basten? Hullet. Jeez, you missed that.

2:48Edwin van der Sar: OK, you need also a midfielder and a defender.

2:50Gary Neville: You picked four, by the way. That's four. So, who have we got? Jan Cruyff. Jan Cruyff.

2:56Edwin van der Sar: Burkamp. Burkamp. Rijkaard. Rijkaard. Did I say Frank de Boer? Frank de Boer. Edgar Davids. And Davids.

3:02Gary Neville: There you go. You got them. Well done. Your favourite movie?

3:10Edwin van der Sar: Difficult question. I'd only got football questions. I didn't prepare myself for that.

3:17Gary Neville: What's this scarf thing doing, by the way? It's a nice little number, a bit of a style thing.

3:23Edwin van der Sar: Colton was outside with those questions.

3:26Gary Neville: Favourite movie? You can come back to it. Which modern-day goalkeeper do you admire most?

3:32Edwin van der Sar: I'm going to make it more difficult for you.

3:33Gary Neville: I'm going to say Premier League. Premier League. Who's the best Premier League goalkeeper right now? I always liked Alisson at Liverpool.

3:42Edwin van der Sar: Alisson at Liverpool.

3:43Gary Neville: The best manager that you ever played under. The best head coach or manager that you ever played under. Hey, I'll make it difficult for you. I knew you were going to say then. Okay. Louis van Gaal. Louis van Gaal over. Alex Ferguson. Yeah. No blink. No, just looking for a bit of a... You want a quick fire answer. Sometimes you call. Yeah, sometimes you go quiet. It might just bring a bit more... No, he's gone for it. Biggest difference in modern-day goalkeeping to when you played?

4:10Edwin van der Sar: The quality on your feet. Like how many short balls you need to play. How many times you need to play a ball with your central defender and to get the ball to the pitch.

4:19Gary Neville: Yeah, because you were a bit dodgy playing it out to me. I remember that. I always looked at the left, not the right. Tip of truth. Favourite teammate ever? Favourite teammate ever? Frank de Boer. Frank de Boer.

4:35Edwin van der Sar: He's getting a lot of mentions. Frank, what still excites you about the game? I'm not that excited in general, so...

4:44Gary Neville: But what's the thing that you like most about the game when you think about the game now?

4:47Edwin van der Sar: I think the complexity, like whatever, the knowledge that all the players, all the information that the players get, all the data that is there, how you must compete against another team. In our time, it was, OK, we played that, forced them to the side, whatever. It's much more simple nowadays. You get so many information. It doesn't always make the football nicer.

5:10Gary Neville: OK, a bit more methodical. A favourite stadium you've ever played in?

5:20Edwin van der Sar: San Siro.

5:21Gary Neville: San Siro, wow.

5:23Edwin van der Sar: Zidane or Scholes? Jesus. No, Zidane or Scholes. OK, Scholes. Oh, wow.

5:34Gary Neville: Scholes over Zidane.

5:35Edwin van der Sar: Wow. Favourite thing about Manchester? The weather. Is that a piss take? Yeah. Favourite thing about the club. The club. Music before a match, yes or no? No.

5:48Gary Neville: No? No music?

5:50Edwin van der Sar: Do you remember Patrice's and Rio's music?

5:53Gary Neville: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was bad, wasn't it? I like your music. Thank you. Whatever. Thank you very much.

5:57Edwin van der Sar: The band that you organised on the Christmas do-out, I love those guys. Guys, the guitarists, still going.

6:03Gary Neville: Yeah? They're still going. Yeah, they're still going, the boys. The best moment in your career? Winning the Champions League in 2008. That penalty shootout?

6:11Edwin van der Sar: Yeah. Not a shootout.

6:13Gary Neville: The game?

6:14Edwin van der Sar: Gary, excuse me interrupting. Can we get through?

6:18Gary Neville: Yeah, we'll come out of the way. No problem. Jesus.

6:22Edwin van der Sar: Let's fuck off. You better go this side.

6:24Gary Neville: You better go this side, guys. All the guys are coming here. Yeah, let's go over here. Let's go in the away team corridor. Yeah, here we go. We've just been booted out of the home team corridor for the tour, so let's go over here. Your favorite hobby? What do you do?

6:41Edwin van der Sar: What do I do?

6:42Gary Neville: Do you play golf? You don't play golf, do you?

6:44Edwin van der Sar: A little bit, yeah. It's not your favorite hobby. My bike. your bike race bike when you say race bike you mean pedal bike like what kind of bikes do you have then motorbike oh no no no racing bike

6:56Gary Neville: the best Dutch player ever easy one eh your craft favourite sport outside of football padel nowadays oh you're one of them padel people paddle paddle you're one of them paddle guys yeah they're one of those one second one second more confident on a one on one or a penalty to save

7:12Edwin van der Sar: one on one I became better at saving penalties if I knew the knowledge that I had my last 10 years in my career I would have had in my first 8 years I would have won more trophies

7:24Gary Neville: what's the knowledge you mean saving a penalty

7:26Edwin van der Sar: what's in the mind of the taker what can you do to put him

7:32Gary Neville: off what can you do

7:34Edwin van der Sar: nowadays not a lot anymore in the past let's look at Martinez how he did in the World Cup final all those kind of things so you can do a lot or you could have done a lot

7:44Gary Neville: do you agree with the players, the goalkeepers, having the messages on their water bottles and on their gloves and on their wrists?

7:52Edwin van der Sar: I had it also in my towel in Moscow. I had a little note from the hotel. Lambert left. Terry this. I know that. Goal there. Still have it.

8:05Gary Neville: I didn't realise we were so prepared.

8:08Edwin van der Sar: Together with Eric Steele, we prepared. I hope your coach did something with you also.

8:13Gary Neville: What is the most difficult thing that you've faced in life?

8:18Edwin van der Sar: I think health issues that occurred with my wife in 2009. I was still playing for United at that time. So, of course, when everything goes well, you have success, your teammates, you have fun, your children are fine. You only think about winning and that kind of stuff. At the moment, that's something happening health-wise with direct family members. Probably for you the same. That infects something to you.

8:45Gary Neville: yeah run out of questions we've got a question no no I'm picking the best ones who will win the World Cup erm France last question biggest phobia what's a phobia Edwin what scares you what's nothing

9:06Edwin van der Sar: nothing scares you

9:08Gary Neville: that's great let's move on let's do another one erm Gary the you've done 19 done 19 oh we've done 19 Edwin Gary That's the most incredible hour and a half. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Enjoy the game tomorrow. Always good to see you. Thank you. Great to see you. Thank you. Thanks so much. Well done. Brilliant.

9:25Edwin van der Sar: That was amazing.

9:26Gary Neville: Thank you so much. That was really, really good. Thank you, Edward.

9:29Edwin van der Sar: What are you sending away?

9:32Gary Neville: Brilliant, Edward. Well done. Thanks. OK. I'll meet you. See you guys. OK.

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