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🗓️ 22 December 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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To close out 2021, we're replaying our 10 best episodes of the year. At #8 we have 'How Italy Came Back From The Brink.' The Athletic's James Horncastle joined us to explain how a charismatic coach helped guide the Italian Men's Soccer Team from an apocalyptic failure to the pinnacle of European success.
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0:47.0 | Hey everyone, as you probably know by now we are spending this week and next, |
0:51.0 | counting down our 10 best episodes of 2021 as voted on by our production team. |
0:56.0 | And today we're on number eight. This is a story about how the Italian men's soccer team bounced back from a long and difficult road. |
1:03.0 | And a time that was essentially treated as a national disaster. |
1:07.0 | It's full of some great details and some even greater opera music. |
1:11.0 | And by the way, shortly after this episode aired, Italy won the 2020 Euros. Hope you enjoy. |
1:24.0 | Italy has gotten off to a flying start in Euro 2020. |
1:28.0 | Italy and I do have a second dollar as well. |
1:33.0 | And Italy know now that they are home and host after a scary night for them at Wednesday. |
1:40.0 | Which makes it easy to forget that just a few years ago, the Azuri failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup. |
1:48.0 | An unthinkable event that the Italian press dubbed the Apocalypse. |
1:53.0 | Today, the Athletics James Horncastle joins us to explain how the Italians have found their way back from the end of the world. |
2:00.0 | Thanks to a coach with a complicated history with the team and a whole lot of star power. |
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