
Gary Lineker
Gary Lineker is an English sports broadcaster and former soccer player. He played for FC Barcelona, Tottenham Hotspur, Everton, Leicester City, Nagoya Grampus Eight, and the England national team, and was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame. After retiring, Lineker began broadcasting on BBC radio and hosted the podcasts The Rest Is Football and Lineker & Baker: Behind Closed Doors. He has appeared in the documentaries Bobby Robson: More Than a Manager and Matthews, as well as the series The F1rst Team.
Latest
- The High Performance Podcast Gary Lineker: How Feeling Like a Fraud Made Me One of England's Greatest

Gary Lineker needs no introduction. Golden Boot winner at the 1986 World Cup. Sixty-eight goals for England and one of only four players in history never to receive a yellow card. And for thirty years, the most recognisable face in British football broadcasting. And through almost all of it, a quiet persistent voice telling him he didn't quite belong — that sooner or later, someone was going to find him out.What's fascinating about this conversation is how honest Gary is about that feeling, and how completely he refuses to pretend it wasn't there. He talks about the terrifying manager who pinned him against a dressing room wall after he'd scored two goals in a half, and the life lesson that was buried somewhere inside that moment. He opens up about what it was really like at Barcelona — playing at the absolute peak of his powers and still running back to the halfway line thinking he'd just got lucky again. He tells the story of his dad, who said "I love you" for the first and only time as he lay dying, and what that did to Gary standing alone in a hospital lift. And he shares the lesson from Des Lynam that quietly shaped the way he approached thirty years of live television.You'll hear Gary talk on why luck matters more than most people admit. On what it means to go two marriages deep and still consider yourself blessed. On kindness as a non-negotiable. And on why his greatest asset was never his right foot... it was his mind. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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About
- FROM
- Leicester, England
- BORN
- November 30, 1960