Welcome to the Planet Football Podcast. I'm Grant Wall and we have a terrific guest today.

NYCFC's Dav Via has won the World Cup and the European Championship with Spain,

for which he is his nation's all-time leading goal score.

At club level, he has won the

UEFA Champions League and three Spanish League titles. His

NYC F.C. team has qualified for the MLS playoffs and he is currently in a

heated battle with New York's Bradley Wright Phillips for the

MLS Golden Boot Award. David, thank you for speaking today.

No, places to me. Speak with you and thank you for having me.

It's an honor.

I really appreciate the time you're taken here,

and I've got several questions that will address different topics.

But I wanted to start by saying you were born in the Asturias region of Spain.

It's a mining region in a town called Lengreo? Yeah.

How would you describe the town where you're from?

When I talk in my town, in my past,

and when I was chill hot, it was amazing hot it was amazing I was very happy in my town every time playing soccer in the

places in the soccer field too but sometimes in the

places too in when when not have a soccer field and And it's nice.

I come back every year there.

I have the same friends live there.

My family live there.

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