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Today's interview guest is Mateo Bonetti who does a terrific job as a broadcast

analyst for ESPN's Italian soccer coverage. We've had some great interview guests lately including Amelia Lopez, Jim curtain and

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Now here's my interview with Mateo Benetti.

Our guest now is Mateo Benetti.

He's a fantastic broadcast analyst for E-SPN's coverage of Italy's Syria,

most of which you can see on ESPN plus.

You can also see it occasionally on ESPN television channels.

Mateo, it's about time we had you on here.

Thanks for coming on the show.

Yeah, it's been over a decade that we follow each other on Twitter, but we've never actually

met each other in person.

I was starting to have my doubts if you were even real or just a figment of my imagination.

So it's glad that I got to actually put an actual moving human image on your voice.

I am glad we're finally doing this and we're going to talk a lot about Italian soccer later on here, but I want to start by talking about your personal story in getting to where you are now and you know based on what I know you were born in

Italy grew up in the United States and you had to grind for a long time to become a full-time media member in the soccer space.

So let's go back in time.

How did everything get started for you?

Yeah, so you're actually spot on with that.

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