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Hello and welcome to the Tefo Football Podcast. I'm John Mackenzie and I'm joined as ever by my good friend and producer Mike Zimmerman Mike.

Hello. Hi John, excited for this bonus episode of the TIFO

football podcast. Yeah it is a very exciting bonus podcast because you have the

opportunity to talk to a very special footballer from the past and I will let you tell the listeners who you spoke to.

Yeah John thanks so I sat down with you ventists legend and World Cup winner for Italy, Alessandro Del Piero.

He was actually in New York last week.

So I was able to sit down and chat with him for about 20 minutes or so,

kind of reflecting on his club career that 2006 World Cup run he had with

Italy as well as the things he's doing in the New York area to help promote Syria

to help underserved communities and students enrolled in the street soccer

USA program as well as looking ahead towards the Euros and the COB America and

which countries he thinks might be dark horses and it was it was a

very good conversation to have so in your words I think the best thing to do is toss it right to that

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