We Are Chelsea - Christmas Special with Alejandra Bernabé and Wieke Kaptein

Episode Date: December 18, 2024

This is We are Chelsea, the official podcast of Chelsea Women, brought to you in association with Škoda, the official car partner of Chelsea Women and proud supporters of women's sport. www.skoda.co.uk Caz De Moraes is joined by Spanish full-back Alejandra Bernabé and her partner in crime Wieke Kaptein. In this Christmas special we sing songs, find out their favourite part of the British Christmas dinner, learn about traditions in Spain and the Netherlands and we force one of them to wear a tacky Christmas jumper... but who? To watch the full episode on YouTube, click here: https://www.youtube.com/@chelseafc/videos Send us your questions to [e-mail] #WeAreChelsea Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello and welcome to We Are Chelsea, the official podcast of Chelsea Women, brought to you in association with Skoda, who are the official car partner of Chelsea Women, and they are proud supporters of women's sport. I'm Kazdemorez, and today I'm delighted to be joined by Alejandra, Burnabay and Vika Kattyme. Dutch international Vika is back for her second appearance on the podcast this season, but this time she's alongside Spanish fullback Alejandra. and it's our Christmas special. So Merry Christmas. This is We Are Chelsea with Alejandra Bonnevae and Beka Capitaine. Wiki, you're back. You've been on the pod before.

Yes, I've been on the podcast. What did you say to Alex about the podcast? Good luck. No, she was a little bit scared because she's Spanish. Yeah. But she talks good enough. She talks really good English. If she's going to start from the beginning, like when we first met,

It was so funny, but now she talks so good English, so I said, relax. It's, it's, it's, it's not. No. Your English is brilliant. It's getting better. It's not brilliant, but it's getting better. But we're just happy, not everyone can speak Spanish, so we're just happy that you're making an effort and you're speaking in English. But unfortunately, it's your first time on the pod, but it's your second time on the pod.

So as a big thank you for coming back on the pod, I have got you a wonderful. Oh, no. Oh, I like it. Christmas jumper. It's so good. Do you like it now? Yes, wear it now. You're going to hold it.

Wear it now. Wear it now. I'm glad you like it. I mean, it's very traditional in England. I don't know if you know, Alex, for people to wear Christmas jumpers. And this is a particularly ugly one, pretty one, beautiful one. Beautiful one. Yeah.

It's got beautiful reindeer on it. It's not Rudolph, but it's a very nice reindeer. Maybe it's prancer. What? So the rain... Santa's reindeer's have names. The one with the red nose

is Rudolph. Yeah, I love that one. But this one doesn't have a red nose. So maybe this one's prancer. Ah, okay. Maybe. Oh, you're wearing it and you like it and it lives. It's really good.

Yeah, it's a good site also. Will you wear it on Christmas Day, do you think? Yeah. No. She's laying in. that tradition in Spain or Netherlands? Do you guys wear Christmas jumpers? No, we don't.

Just really... Yeah, that word. Like, a lot, like clothes so... Fancy. Yeah, fancy. You dress up. A bit like Big Brother, you dress up to be in your own living room. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, we do. That's weird, but yeah. But then later in the evening, we do, like, put it out, and then we do this on. Oh. You get rid of the formals and you get into your cozy. Yeah, exactly. Oh, I like it.

In Spain, you do that as well. Yeah. Yeah. But you start like fancy. Yeah, true. Start demure. Yeah. And then you let loose.

Yeah. I like it. This season we've been doing on the podcast, lots of like friendships. As you know, you've been on before. Can you talk to me about how your friendship first started? Why are you laughing? Because it's... Why are you laughing?

Right, someone better start talking. Now it's normal, but... Are you crying? In America, I swear. Okay, when I came here, I met Wicca and we're all the time like this. I don't know why. And we didn't even speak really good English. Yeah, we're like

No, it's not even funny If I'm saying it now But it's like We didn't speak really good English And we were sitting next to each other In the bus to America And in the airplane And we were looking at each other

What's going on here And we didn't experience like this When we come for a club Like we, I don't know It's so different from now So yeah it's not even funny when i'm saying it now but it was so funny we had like oh in america i laughed so much because of her and we didn't even speak english together we just we don't speak

if she was talking to sonya i couldn't look at her i just laugh at her i just laugh at the training when she was yeah i can't even we need to get to another show of the way how did your friendship start burst out laughing i mean we just we didn't speak we just laughed at each other no yeah we speak with each other it's like we i think that we talk but but not we had like fun with the two of us because we didn't know anyone else yet so it was like see you the newbies yeah so it was like yeah funny yeah funny i don't know can you tell me a fact about yourself or about each other that no one knows.

I always wash my hair on Gabneau. Oh, yeah, that's your superstition. Yeah. And I always wear, like, bands. Oh, that's crazy. That's crazy. What's crazy? Tell us Alex.

She put, like, a long sock. Mm-hmm. But inside, a short sock. A short sock. And then the, I don't know the name. And then a long one. Like I have an ankle sock first and then the normal sock. Like the football sock.

It's not that weird. It's because my feet are really small and then it's not fitting it properly in my football shirt. It's weird. We need to speak to whoever your football boot manufacturers and they can get your smaller size. No, this is the smallest size. I just have weird feet. They already like... What size feet are you?

Size? Yeah. I don't know. 29 and a half they look normal yeah the size is normal of course but it's like it is oh it's thin oh you have a thin foot yeah thin that's why i need double sucks otherwise i will go like to wide oh to widen your feet yeah or an insult why don't you just wear an insults already yeah she wants everything what about you Alex have you got an interesting fact or wiki do you know an interesting fact about

that you can share i'm a normal person like no no no you're quick like stressed like oh yes like i'm getting nervous so quick nervous so quickly i'm just relax a little bit mate and then she's like no no no no no and then this and this oh no yeah that's a good one yeah i'm a person so like nervous yeah okay so i don't know why my i can't control It's like my body is getting nervous, and yeah, that's all. I can do anything. I can't control, my body's getting nervous, and that's just taking over me. Yeah, that's what happens.

Yeah, and then I'm stressed, and then I relax. And then I'm relaxed, and then... And then stress. I saw recently the TikTok that you did. Was it on Katie Cox's? I suspect. Yeah, that was a funny one. Why don't they like your nails?

Yeah. I don't know. I noticed that you said that and you in. Yeah, I don't know. I just put like, now it's gone, but I put like a brown thing with a white. Yeah. You already.

I saw it. Oh, you don't like it too. I didn't love it. No, just be honest. I didn't love it. You hate it. I didn't hate it. It's just not something I would have chosen for me.

It was also my second time or something that I put it on my finger. How do you call it? Jellac. Yeah, Shalak. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So, no, yeah, everyone was laughing.

So in a week, it was gone. Now, you weren't on it, Alex. But if Alex was on it, what would you say to Alex? Suspect is running because... She forgot everything. Are you very forgetful? Yes. Yeah, I'm not.

disaster. She's a disaster. Have you remembered to buy presents for everyone this year? No yet. I have to buy something to my mom, to my brother. Yeah, I am...

What would you buy each other for Christmas? What would you buy each other for Christmas? I bought a cringe for her. Yes. Teddy cringe. Yeah, I love the grint. You love the grin? Because she hates Christmas.

It's not my favorite film, but I love it, yeah. She gets Christmas. You don't like Christmas? It's a hard time. Yeah. It's a complicated time. Yeah.

It's complicated. What would you buy for Wiki? Hmm. I think she's like easier. Like, well, clearly I gave her a Christmas junker. That's very questionable. She loves it. Maybe candles or something like with, you put in your house and smell well.

I love that. Yeah, I love that. Also, she loves, like, to the bathroom that you put, like, a ball and, I don't know the name. Yeah, like, bath bombs. Oh, bath bombs in the bath. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, I love that. Okay. Small thing with me, very easy. Yeah, I don't really care. Yeah. Or shoes or something. Yeah, I don't really care.

I like, so you could be, you could, are you like gift giving? Yeah. That's so sweet. I don't like presents. I just like to give. Yeah. So sweet.

You could go to Spain for Christmas because you could wait until the sixth then you wouldn't mind. No, true. I would struggle. I don't want to put you on the spot. What's your favorite Christmas song? I don't know that one.

Neither do I. Sing it again? Come my burrito savannero I'm going to go to Belen and yeah. If me men, I don't I'm talking in Spanish sorry

I'm not going to say anymore I love that I'm going to add it to my playlist what's yours I know you're going to ask it I don't know Last Christmas How does it go

You know how it kills Last Christmas I gave you my heart For the very next day Give it away That's a good one Yeah Christmas Day in Spain and the Netherlands, how does the day look?

Are you playing games? Do you play like charades, charades? You know the one where you go? TikTok. No. I didn't understand anything. Do you play the, you know, games? Ah, games.

Games. Six table games, like normal games. Yeah, but also charades. Sharrades is the mind. Because this is a mind game where if I have to see Yeah, you see like the card Oh you haven't in front of your head

Oh my God, you're so generation set No, yeah In Spain we talk With your mobile phone on your You're talking about heads up Heads up is based on charades I don't have no idea In Spain we talk a lot

But we don't play games My family for example We talk and everything But no play games You don't play games So charades maybe you could do this this year maybe you could do this year

charades is very typical where you play a game like for instance you can have in your mind I don't know a film that is like the Lion King so you would go it's a film that's why you were doing this

that's why I was doing that film because you would do book or you would do a song nice I would try it my mom oh my mom is so fun so that's going to be so funny of course i would love to see spanish charades in alex's family yeah i would love to what other traditions do you do in spain because in spain you celebrate on the 24th yeah we celebrate 24 and also 31 and also 25 yeah we celebrate everything like 24

we have dinner uh-huh but 25 is like christmas so we have lunch and then Then we have the 6th of January. Yes, because it's when they actually arrive, the kings with the presents. Yeah, the presents and everything, yeah. Yeah. And is that the day that you actually give the presents? Yeah. So you don't do presents on the 25th or the 24th?

No. No. Yeah. Some families, they do like both 25 and 6, but it's like... Not traditional. Yeah. Can you imagine being at school and being like, I'm waiting until the 26th on the 6th to get my present. like really my mom gives me presents on the 25th and the 6th you'd be like what yeah that's

yeah that's really good yeah i would love that you would love what both yeah rather than just the one but what is it like in the netherlands do you do 24 25 okay well so what do you think about i guess in the english men's premier league they play on boxing day yeah yeah it's weird like for me it's like so weird. Yeah. This time like you need to be with your family. With your family friends. Yeah.

Yeah. I think a lot of the foreign players think that. It's like so difficult for them to play maybe their families can watch the game or something but if not you are like alone and it's so difficult for me for example. It's like I have

to be with my family friends and stay at home. Yeah. Yeah. What are the, what is the traditional food on Christmas Day in the Netherlands and Spain? don't you dare say pancakes

I knew you were going to say that I knew it no it's not pancakes let me think it's beef stick with yeah it's Dutch yeah it's like beef

soup we always make soup soup yeah before the dinner well we do as a family so I don't know if the whole it can't be the whole of Holland no I don't know I don't know about that

But no, yeah, we make soup. The family is coming then and just make, like, in Holland we say olebole. I don't know if... Oliebolo. Yeah. What is that? Describe it to me. Yeah.

Alex wants to know as well. Yeah. Why are you worried about describing it? Yeah, because I don't know it. How I say it in English. It's like a brown ball. You make it. Like...

Is it made of meat? No. No, no, no, it's not meat. It's sweet. Is it like a donut? Yeah, kind of. But you have beef as a family at Christmas. Yeah, beef.

Or are we gourmet? Again, cool mat. What's gulmette? Do you know, Alex? It's like you have a, in the middle of the table, you have a thing. And then you put like beef, chicken, everything, what you want, you put it on the plate. And it's going to get warm. and then you can take it and we do that every time that's really nice yeah it's really good

it's like and no one has to worry about cooking the Christmas meal because you each just cook your own yeah you just buy a lot of meat chicken everything and salmon uh swarma and then you put it on the plate and it's it's really hot and then it cooks and then you can take it and or you can give it it's like a raclette i don't know yeah kind of yeah yeah yeah you know spanish oh you know it no i know what she means like like when you're like when they do a lot of raclette when you're skiing right yeah yeah true but instead of cheese and everything like meat and no yeah see yes yeah see no this you don't have no idea what's the traditional christmas food in spain in spain i think the most traditional is like snacks

like for example in my family we put like oh my god this is so difficult to explain um saladia rusa oh like a like a salad but it's like russian salad is it like with mayo and yeah similar in Brazil we call it mayonnaise but it's like potato and and carrots and yeah and you have things and then you mix it with yeah with mayo with mayonnaise yeah and tortilla obviously you have to have tortilla yeah hamon Hamon. And Fet

Yeah. Ham When I hear the I know it's the age And then we have like goulas

It's like kind of fish And it's like a lot of snacks And then we have meat or fish

And the meat is like lamb Oh I love Lamb. With potatoes and your potatoes.

in the oven and fees. You have like a roast lamb. Lamb. Yeah, you have like a roast arm. No. This podcast is brought to you by Skoda, the official car partner of Chelsea women and proud supporters of women's sport. It's football season.

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It was a lot. Yeah. English people eating so much. Yeah. In Spain we eat a lot, but here, yeah. Massive. Yeah, it's crazy. I was looking at the place of the English people and I was like, oh my God.

Yeah, it's crazy. Okay, you think we've got a portion problem in the UK. We eat too much. Were people loading it on, though, because it's Christmas. Because I feel like Christmas is a time where you'd wear like, you know, you'd unbutton your jeans maybe and you'd go, right, I'm going to have my Christmas lunch. And that's why you'd pile it on. Yeah. Maybe it's a bit of that.

Maybe. Did you have pigs in blankets? Sausage. You're both like, no. You didn't have the sausages with bacon. No, I didn't have it. I saw it, but I didn't. You didn't want to pick that up?

No, no. Not really. No. I didn't scream at you like sauceette with bacon or what it's pork on pork yeah yeah it's pork and pork but I don't know I looked at the sausage with the I don't know with bacon and like smaller like this and I was like oh my god what is she's like I'm from Spain why the sausage is so small here yeah sausage should be big like a chorizo although I sounded Italian Yeah, that's Italian. No, it's my news, I think.

So you were judging the sausages based on the size? No, I just eat something else. What about gravy? Did you have loads of gravy? Oh, Eggie taught me that. No, I had like a bun, like a... A bun. Do you mean a Yorkshire pudding? Yeah, I had that. Yeah, I had that. Yeah, I had the bun. Did you not put gravy in the bun? No.

Yorkshire pudding, it's not a bun. caroline i know that it's not a bun did you not put the gravy in the yorkshire pudding yeah aggie was saying this exact the same thing and i was like well you just had a dry yorkshire pudding i put a little bit of gem on it jam what who was sat with you at lunch i am so angry at all the british players who didn't tell you the etiquette you put jam do you mean like cranberry sauce no jam you just the purple thing jam you know what yeah i know i know I know what jam is It's just

Why didn't you put the grate Did you have gravy anywhere else on your plate? No You had a Christmas dinner without gravy What is it? Gravy is the like it's The brown sauce The brown sauce

Yeah I saw it on every plate On Katie eggies Oh I didn't try it No I try it Oh my God I can't say nothing more that Oh my God that's crazy

why you can eat this I was like no no I can't I can't I try it with with an omelet and okay

what you like it with an omelet I wouldn't have gravy with an omelet yeah what is coming on yeah I don't know Aggie

I put like this sauce yeah but egg put likes a lot of sauce yeah and she told me okay try it and I was like

no but then I try it I can't get over that you had a dry roast dinner. No, with jam. It's not dry. With jam. Okay. So, when do you travel?

The 19. Then we're going home and we have until the second of January. Yeah. Okay. So you're both going to be with your family. You're going to do smart and then cosies in the afternoon? No, yeah. This year, Christmas, I go to Lapland, so I'm not in the smart.

I'm like in a jacket because it's minus 30 degrees or something. Which Lapland? There's one in the UK. Not that one. No, no, no, no. I'm not going to the UK. No. Okay, you're going to actual Finland.

Yeah. Are you going to meet Santa? I hope so. I will put this jumper on for him. Will you actually? I want a picture with you, Santa and this jumper. okay who are you going with uh with my parents and my brothers so it's the last family trip together because we're all like really busy and stuff so we wanted to do this for five years and now

we finally can do it so i can afford it so yeah oh i bet your family your parents probably feel a bit emotional yeah because it's like the last one yeah not like the last last one but it's like we're also getting now older and yeah the football and stuff so I think we said to each other we wanted to do it. Yeah, we wanted to do it when we were a little bit older and now it's like the perfect timing and yeah. So, yeah. Oh, the snowmobiles.

Actually, is there going to be a lot of snow on the 19th of December? Well, we're going 21 to 28. So I think, I hope there's going to be. Because I know someone who, yeah, I know someone who. Yeah, I know someone who. went in November and she was like there was no snow so she was sad but I'm sure there will be for you thank you yeah oh I want to see all the photos I'm very jealous yeah I bought a camera yeah like a professional camera yeah because I wanted to make like a lot of pictures I make a book

of the trip and I couldn't do it so the Harriet Harriet helped me with learning to get take photos she learned me in the airplane and when we went away for Celtic we like shot together the photos so it was really good now I know how it works oh my god so you're going to have pro photographs of the reindeer's yeah and the northern light I hope well I hope I get to see all the photographs you guys are rushing off you have no time you're busy busy ladies yeah thank you for coming here for Christmas thank you for having us on the podcast where your jumper yeah I will I want a selfie yeah it's good I will do it. You like it? Yeah, I love it. It's hot. It's good. It's hot. Like warm. Yeah, warm. Oh, yeah. It's warm.

I thought you like, it's hot. I love it. It's warm. Well, Merry Christmas to both of you. Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. Everyone. Yeah. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. It's one at all. See you next year. Thank you so much, guys. Thank you. Thank you for listening to We Are Chelsea, the official podcast of Chelsea Women, brought to you in association with Skoda, who are the official car partner for Chelsea women,

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