{"id":25985,"date":"2026-02-18T01:42:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/granit-xhaka-discusses-arsenal-arteta-and-why-he-chose-sunderland-the-football-interview\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T01:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T01:42:37","slug":"granit-xhaka-discusses-arsenal-arteta-and-why-he-chose-sunderland-the-football-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/granit-xhaka-discusses-arsenal-arteta-and-why-he-chose-sunderland-the-football-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Granit Xhaka discusses Arsenal, Arteta and why he chose Sunderland | The Football Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h1ovyrPD5ro?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Granit Xhaka sits down with Kelly Somers to discuss growing up in Basel, his arrival at &#8211; and departure from &#8211; Arsenal, winning the Bundesliga with Bayer Leverkusen and finding himself back in the Premier League with Sunderland. <\/p>\n<p>Chapters:<br \/>\n00:00 Intro<br \/>\n01:00 When Granit realised he was good at football<br \/>\n02:32 The one game he&#8217;d re-play<br \/>\n04:50 Reflections on Arsenal<br \/>\n06:05 Why he came back to the Premier League<br \/>\n08:00 Choosing Sunderland above other offers<br \/>\n09:10 Personality differences on and off the pitch<br \/>\n12:32 Parents, prison and pride<br \/>\n15:00 The loneliness of being a footballer<br \/>\n17:30 Hobbies<br \/>\n18:40 Arteta&#8217;s influence<br \/>\n19:55 One surprising thing about Granit Xhaka<br \/>\n21:40 Outro<\/p>\n<p>Follow more on the BBC Sport app, iPlayer and Sounds.<br \/>\n=============<\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE so you never miss out on our best videos<br \/>\n\u27a1\ufe0f\u27a1\ufe0fhttp:\/\/bit.ly\/1sFodyu <\/p>\n<p>=============<\/p>\n<p>Find us here: <\/p>\n<p>BBC Sport: http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport<br \/>\nFacebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BBCSport\/<br \/>\nX: https:\/\/www.x.com\/BBCSport\/<br \/>\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcsport\/<br \/>\nTikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@bbcsport<\/p>\n<p>#bbcsport #football #premierleague #arsenal #sunderland <\/p>\n<p>Granit Xhaka discusses Arsenal, Arteta and why he chose Sunderland<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h1ovyrPD5ro\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Granit Xhaka sits down with Kelly Somers to discuss growing up in Basel, his arrival at &#8211; and departure from &#8211; Arsenal, winning the Bundesliga with Bayer Leverkusen and finding himself back in the Premier League with Sunderland. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 01:00 When Granit realised he was good at football 02:32 The one game he&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25987,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25985\/revisions\/25987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}