S01 Bonus EP01: Ákos Onódi

Football Journeys Podcast

This is the first of our bonus episodes, recorded via Zoom during the lockdown, as we prepare for a studio recorded Series Two post-lockdown (hopefully!) .

In this episode we met a hugely impressive young man, Ákos Onódi, a 19 year old Hungarian goalkeeper, who had his first taste of men's football with his home town club of Győri ETO FC before he came to England to follow his Premier League dream with Aston Villa. His first team debut at Villa came much earlier than he could have imagined when a Covid-19 outbreak at Bodymoor Heath meant that Villa's u23s had to step in for the first team in an FA Cup 3rd Round tie against Liverpool: Mané, Salah et al. He talks about getting used to English culture and the importance of balance in his life as he studies computing at a high level whilst striving to play in the Premier League and be his country's best goalkeeper.