Coady's Podcast: Van Nistelrooy, Vardy, Carragher & Gerrard

Conor Coady is the latest Fox to appear in our running podcast series, Leicester’s The Place, with the defender explaining the importance of togetherness as we navigate a challenging run of form in the Premier League.

2025-01-23T10:52+00:00

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23 Jan, 2025

Coady's Podcast: Van Nistelrooy, Vardy, Carragher & Gerrard

Conor Coady is the latest Fox to appear in our running podcast series, Leicester’s The Place, with the defender explaining the importance of togetherness as we navigate a challenging run of form in the Premier League.

Admin

2025-01-23T10:52+00:00

Coady's Podcast: Van Nistelrooy, Vardy, Carragher & Gerrard

Conor Coady is the latest Fox to appear in our running podcast series, Leicester’s The Place, with the defender explaining the importance of togetherness as we navigate a challenging run of form in the Premier League.

Admin

2025-01-23T10:52+00:00

Coady's Podcast: Van Nistelrooy, Vardy, Carragher & Gerrard

Conor Coady is the latest Fox to appear in our running podcast series, Leicester’s The Place, with the defender explaining the importance of togetherness as we navigate a challenging run of form in the Premier League.

Admin

2025-01-23T10:52+00:00

Coady's Podcast: Van Nistelrooy, Vardy, Carragher & Gerrard

Conor Coady is the latest Fox to appear in our running podcast series, Leicester’s The Place, with the defender explaining the importance of togetherness as we navigate a challenging run of form in the Premier League.

Admin

2025-01-23T10:52+00:00

Also recapping his career to date, offering an insight into Ruud van Nistelrooy’s tenure so far and assessing our fortunes, Conor was speaking in-depth with two LCFC favourites, Matt Elliott and Gerry Taggart.

You can watch the podcast in full now HERE, and here are some snippets…

Van Nistelrooy’s training methods

Conor Coady sits down with Matt Elliott and Gerry Taggart on Leicester's The Place.

“He does a little bit of finishing with the strikers and it’s top. Just little details that things I would never ever think of. In training, the lads before the game do a finishing drill where one of us play a ball to the edge of the box, take a touch and you’ve got to stay in the D and finish.

“He came over and, even with Winksy (Harry Winks), who obviously shoots more from outside of the box, he was telling him the angle of his run was wrong, so if he changes the angle of his run, he can open up both sides of the goal and give the ‘keeper the eyes to whip it back in this corner.

“He did a demo and it flew into the bottom corner. He’s done it a couple of times with Stephy [Mavididi], who wants to improve and get better because he’s that sort of character. The gaffer stays out and does a little bit with him and you just see him wrapping balls into the side of the net. It’s brilliant.”

Facing Vardy on the pitch

Before becoming team-mates, Conor Coady was regularly in battle with Jamie Vardy.

“He sticks in my mind, playing against him a lot for Wolves. I remember a goal [Jamie Vardy] scored at King Power Stadium; I think you beat us 1-0. He nipped across me at the front post, I might have actually been outside it, but I was defending at the front post and flicked it into the top corner.

“We always played you early. He scored this goal and I was literally at the front post. I remember sitting on the floor thinking: ‘How in the world does he even get that in from there?’ I’m actually defending it okay and people look at me, look at the centre-backs and go: ‘You should defend that better’. But he’s just flicked it into the top bin from the tightest of angles from a Ricardo [Pereira] cross from out wide.”

Idolising Carragher & Gerrard

Conor Coady lines up alongside Jamie Carragher for Liverpool.

“Growing up, my idols where [Jamie] Carragher and [Steven] Gerrard. For a young lad from around there, they were always the idols, seeing what they did, winning the Champions League and the cups and the trophies they won. They were always the idols around there. If you were a young lad around the training ground and you weren’t doing things right, [Carragher] was on you. I always remember, we used to do old vs. young games at the training ground. We’d never get near them, but there was one day when we beat them. He was that competitive, Carra, he was just fuming. He just got dressed and went home. He was that fuming about losing to the younger lads. I love that. If you’re going to play at a level, you have to have that competitive nature.”

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