Rio Ferdinand | Full Address & Q&A | Oxford Union
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Rio Gavin Ferdinand is an English former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He played 81 times for the England national football team between 1997 and 2011, and was a member of three FIFA World Cup squads. He is regarded by many to be one of England's greatest ever players and he is one of the most decorated English footballers of all time.
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Rio absolutely owned this. He has a dry humour that is so underrated.
The interviewer thought Kompany and Mangala was a better partnership than Vidic and Rio hahahahaaha
Was just a joke because Rio put him on the spot. Give him a break!
Most retarded comment on UA-cam
A class act
Well done rio, great insight into what went on over the years. Shame about the bellend city fan sat next to you though!
Best center half I've seen true class top man love to hear footballers talk about stuff that happened in the dressing room and training ground
I'm a MCFC fan, however I still found this really interesting. I respect Rio for all he did for England and utd to a point.
His experience and knowledge is fantastic, and valuable to anyone starting out!
Respect Rio!
£30,000,000 for 12 years of filling trophy cabinets & enhancing Uniteds global image, which no doubt grew further in the 2000's resulting in the club becoming the biggest in the world.
££££££££££££££
It was more than worth it 👊🏼
27 million
Brilliant speaker is Rio. He says he was nervous but it didn't show. I thought he did an amazing job. The chair wasn't much cop and left him to it. Great job.
if it didn't show how could you tell he was nervous you fucking bellend
Thanks Rio - That was Superb !! Total Respect !!
Worth his transfer fee??? Let me see...
12 seasons/years of first team football at Man Utd
6 Premier League Medals
1 Champions League, twice runner up.
3 League Cups
Club World Cup
6 Community Shields
In that case, no he wasn't worth the transfer fee (sarcasm).
"Let's have a couple more questions". What a legend. Fantastic interview / Q&A.
MR Rio Ferdinand my full admiration sir thank you the Legend.
Great player, great person, great interview
full of content! really enjoyed it :)
Rio seems like a decent guy. fair play to him.
Well done, Rio. Proud of you. A real leader. With a true leader’s humility. The sort of humility which comes from the knowledge that you made it through hard work and talent to the very top of your chosen career.
Love it. Thank you for letting intellectual people from different backgrounds educate your students.
Really interesting interview. Rio seems knowledgeable and a genuinely good guy.
Ferdinand was a great player. His partnership with vidic among the best in the premier league
21:16 The levels of disrespect by the interviewer is massive.
he showed childish behavior
I love you Rio!❤️
Great talk.
good for Rio. he comes over well/
I like the thoughts on setting targets. I understand the fear of complacency. I feel it comes from not believing you have enough. You feel you aren't enough or dont have enough.
If we cant enjoy and be satisfied with success, let's go back to appreciating what we have. And get rid of pride.
I like Rio.
He's grounded guy, good on you Rio! Was very insightful hearing things from his perspective growing up compared to what footballer teenagers are spoiled with these days with insane amounts of money from the get go.
A class act! On and off the pitch..
For an ex united player .....I thought that he did extremely well ...a very good speech...and I am a Liverpool supporter...well done Rio, :)
Genuine, hard-working guy with good attitude.
Fantastic
Wow a great interview! This is what you need to learn to be successful in life. Go beyond and take risks!
what a great sportsman
bravo
I see a lot of comments bashing the interviewer. I thought it was great to have a rival fan interview. Him and Rio had great sense of humor.
Rio is a class act. Top guy
Rio ferdinand is such a cool guy
Great interview top guy legend. kompany and Mangala best cb partnership?? the shityy fan is a joke.
Pieter Maas He isn't at the same level and never will be
Do you think he'll get too 3 Champions League finals like RIO no *****
Top10In TheWorld you can't see he was just trying to have a joke? I'm a united fan it's so obvious 😂.
@Pieter Maas hahahah kompany on the same level as vidic or ferdinand thanks man i need this joke to cheer my day up after 2 years of you posting this comment
@Pieter Maas all i got to say to that is "humor" is subjective. Meaning you may not have found it funny but others did
Wondeful player Wonderful analyst and Wonderful person and very giving
What his dad said that if he doesn't get at least 5 A-C GCSEs, he couldn't play football, just shows how hard Rio worked for it. Good on his dad too.
Rio was very interesting in this forum. Came across with great enthusiasm & intensity about the game he clearly loves! Some of the questions though?! 10yr olds could do better! Oxford clearly need to screen their candidates with the same vigour as Rio presented himself here. The best 2 questions were from the Indian lads imo.
interviewer clearly doesn't like him, surely they could have gotten someone else who wasn't a fan of their direct rivals
It's Irrelevant if the interviewer likes him or not. Doesn't matter.
@@vision-oe7hx it does, because here it affects the way he does his job
@@Alexander711 yeah. Well if if Rio didn't wanna be there. He wouldn't be there. Simple
@@vision-oe7hx It’s not only about Rio, for me as a viewer it’s also unpleasant.
He started by setting him up with length self-talk, letting him talk through without follow-ups, then trying to challenge him about the defensive partnership. Hi whole posture proves your point
Rio you are a legend, from Peckham to Old Trafford. We love you thank you for your work. Legend always.
From Peckham to playing alongside Beckham :)
Go on Rio what a hero what a player :D
surely someone at Oxford knows how to talk and engage with people. Almost wasted a great opportunity to interview someone interesting and who has something to say
true legend...riiio!
Is £30,000,000 worth 17 trophies and almost a further two, as well as the best English centre half since Bobby Moore?
John Terry enters the chat
@@zaru10 he entered and left when he saw Rio on the throne
cnt talk aboit rio n terry in the same footballing sentence.
I Love Rio
Rio's as great a human being as he is a footballer! 👍 ⚽🏆⚽
He is a good talker.
Legend
so is your mom
RIOOOOOOOOOOO I MISSED YOU AT TV
Anyone else getting that whole ‘Will from the Inbetweeners’ wibe about the interviewer?
Wow this was actually pretty great. Even if the interviewer was a bit insidious in his questions. But Rio's style is such that he takes the specific and gives it a broader perspective, and stays in control with good grace.
Must say, the interviewer also chooses a suspicious ammount of foreigners over natives, probably that PC bullshit, to ask questions. One of those questions was spot on though: 'With Paul Scholes retiring, what about the problems in central midfield?' Rio is very pragmatic, pointing to their competitive success and point surplus, but it absolutely is the major issue of Man United, especially now. Paul Scholes, as he says, is the most talented player of that era. Probably in the world in that position, as several 'galacticos' have said. They let Pogba leave, and he was the only one within lightyears of patching that hole. So that was an excellent question, but I do wish that they dropped this ridiclous 'positive discrimination' and gave some more Anglo Saxon guys a chance. I bet its like that in their selection process too. Overall though, an excellent, sincere and concise reflection by a man from whom, come to think of it, youd expect nothing less!
Crazy as he was talking about Qatar and visiting one of the stadiums.... i was driving passed the New Alwakra Stadium
I like the story about him cleaning boots. These guys grew up knowing what respect means
Train Effective brought me here
is that the boy from inbetweeners interviewing rio??
Very articulate, Rio
Fair play to him wanting to answer more questions at the end even though they were ready to wrap it up
Top lad Rio!
Bravo. Interviewer was trying too hard and frankly not up to the job. Rio, I've read a lot about you in the media and as you say, the media has its own agenda. You did yourself, your parents, late wife, kids and current partner proud. Sir Alex will undoubtedly have a lot to do with how you turned out.
All the best.
Great interview by Rio. Great to see his great personality
The interviewer is the real life embodiment of Will from The Inbetweeners, but without the comedy. Absolute knob.
shut up muppet
i agree. he's a prick
Rio always comes across as a really decent bloke… and what a defender he was!
I can understand the question around the transfer fee, if you compare Rio with Mangala at Manchester City(who is dogshit) who is the most expensive defender in British History then I agree with Rio that he was worth it. He was top class around the the 2005-2008 period when him and Vidic were in their peak, his back went after that period and he was never the same.
I went to Alex Ferguson's last game as a swansea fan, I remember that he scored the winner in the last minute and the roof came off, I didn't like him for that but he was a top class player in his day.
keep it up there!
BIG RIO !
What Interviewer?
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Cool, apart from the bit where he rues the inability to bully youngsters anymore. Still, appreciate his honesty.
Invite Tyson fury heavyweight champion of the world
+Sim Sons lol banter
I'd like to see that.
If they move Oxford to the USA seeing as Tyson isn't allowed to enter the Uk.
Matt C Tyson Fury not Mike Tyson
this is good
The players at utd during those days had so much class,values put into them by sir alex, the only things that mattered was football.
50:05 .. Rio grilling city fan interviewer hahah
The commonality is the elite in each profession.
Rio was playing smartly as well as captaincy.
What a legend. South East London stand up. I bet the interviewer must cringe at the interview wen he mentioned Mangala lool
at the beginning he looks so fcking out of place as he walks to his seat, surrounded by books and polite applause :0
Brilliant from Rio in this interview. He is so fixated on winning and his determination is something you rarely see among modern players. One of the best CB’s the premier league has ever seen.
I really enjoyed listening to Rio, despite the irritating interviewer. Can you get Gary Neville?
The thumbnail.
Balley is good for boxing especially for footwork
1:30 - “the only bit of common ground we have with each other is that we are the elite” ... speaking as a Liverpool supporter I should be completely biased against Ferdinand. But let’s get this straight - he was an elite footballer and stands well above most of these over privileged little scrotes, most of whom have proved nothing compare to him. He grafted his way to the top through sheer talent and application. Most of these kids were born into privilege and were groomed to get a place at Oxford. There’s nothing elite about these children. So Rio Ferdinand, you should stand a bit taller. Being from a council estate simply means you had a more humble start than the kids in the audience, but it doesn’t mean you are inferior in any shape or form.
Charlotte Charlier where are you :(
LOL RIO WAS INVITED ?!?
Interviewer knows fuck all about football and Rio knows that he's talking to the masses and the students who are actually listening to his memoirs all the best for the future Rio
he's a Citeh fan YK, it's money orientated club not football.
The flashes are so annoying!
Rio is still wearing his wedding band
I wonder if Rio continued aimlessly rambling in the car on the way home.
#WHATAGUY
Love the bit at the end about his superstitions..
Rio in today's market would cost 60M world class
Someone teach him the word "did"...
And some demonstrative pronouns while your at it.
What I like about Rio is if you look past his strong Peckham accent and all the "I done this, I done that", he is really articulate. A thoughtful guy with interesting perspectives. Probably not the right personality to go down the management route, but a really good pundit, regardless of how he talks.
Guy beside him looks like vikk.
1:13:10
Tells you a lot about England national team
Invite Tyson Fury
This interviewer is getting a bit of unfair stick. He's young and a bit out of his depth (but that's the whole point of Oxford Union). He shouldn't have bothered with the Man City "banter". But his questions took Rio in some interesting directions. I'm glad it was different from a typical footballer interview.
His description of Ronaldo explains evrything
no disrespect arsenal player should watch this
The interviewer clearly is a glory hunter. Bet he never watched city when they had samaras up front.
Benjani
You know Rio was thinking, why did I carry on with more questions after the one on corruption.
Ask Joseph Joyce most decorated amateur boxer in History !!!
I don't care about Rio,
He don't care about me,
All I care about,
Is watching FC
I watched this and the RVN one now, and what I've come out of it is, fuck me "the brightest and best" ask the most inane questions...our future is fucked!
The REPUBLIC of Ireland Is not a 'home' team Rio