Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast, where I go in-depth with the most intriguing people in the world of soccer.

In this episode, I'm joined by David Amoyall for a really fun conversation on all things Italian soccer.

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Our guest today is one of my favorite follows on Twitter.

David Amoyal is a Boston-based Italian soccer maven who does the terrific Calchiolan

podcast.

He's also the editor of John Luca de Marzio's English language website and a columnist for E-SPN FC and The Athletic.

You can also hear David regularly on Sirius XM and you can find him on Twitter at David M-Y-L, A-M-O-Y-A-L.

David, thanks for joining me.

It's a real pleasure to be on with you, Grant.

Thanks so much for having me today

psyched to have you on David there's lots to talk about but first up I just wanted to ask you I'm getting the sense that

Italian soccer is getting more popular again including in the United States

what are the factors that you think are contributing to that?

It's a great question I think a lot of people would say the easy answer is

Ronaldo arriving at UVA but I think the seeds had been planted before then and I

think these seeds are also the reason why Rinaldo decided to come play in Italy for what appears to be maybe the final chapter of his career.

I feel though UVA've been a dominating force and said yeah we've had some pretty good title

races in recent years especially last year. Napoli put on a valiant effort everyone knew that followed said yeah how beautiful

Saris football at Napoli was that was confirmed at Chelsea so I think the last

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