I'm Nando Vila and this is We Came to Win. We're back with a special episode about

football in the time of Corona. We're bringing this to you in collaboration with our

friends and fellow football podcast Giant

and I'm joined now by the host of Giant Owen Blackhurst.

Owen, how you doing?

Hey Nando, yeah, all things considered, I'm doing pretty well.

Okay, so here's how this is going to work.

We're going to start off by playing a story produced

by the week came to win team.

It's all about how one football match turned out

to be at the center of an outbreak of the coronavirus.

And then after the break, Owen and the giant team will tell you a story.

Yeah, it's at the opposite end of the spectrum to that Nando. It's about a small team in London and they're

managed by a taxi driver and they had their season turned upside down by Corona.

Let's do this. Welcome back to We Came to Win. Oh, So, On February 19th,

19th, Atlanta and Valencia ran out onto the field

to play their Champions League round of 16 match.

One of these two teams have a real opportunity to be quarter-find lists.

The Champions League anthem swirled around the stadium and the players lined up and shook hands.

Then the ref blew the whistle and the game got started. So it's fun to get us underway.

Atlanta won the game that night, 4-1, the biggest result in the club's history.

But in the weeks after this match was played, the

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