The Game Before: One City's Soccer Obsession And Its COVID Crisis (Re-Air)
ESPN Daily
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🗓️ 28 December 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | ESPN Daily is presented by supercuts, the smarter, easier way to get a haircut. |
| 0:07.0 | It's not just any haircut, it's super cuts. |
| 0:10.0 | Hey guys, it's Pablo here, and as we continue to take a break for the holidays, a much-deserved, much-needed break, I'm sure you guys can relate. |
| 0:19.0 | We wanted to bring you one of our favorite stories of the year here at ESPN Daily. It's about a small city in Italy with a very |
| 0:28.8 | important soccer team, one that had the match of their dreams turn into a nightmare back at the |
| 0:36.5 | start of the pandemic. |
| 0:38.7 | One year later, to the day, Sam Borden told us how it all unfolded. |
| 0:50.6 | So it's one year ago, February 19th, 2020. |
| 0:57.0 | This entire city in northern Italy is party. |
| 1:04.0 | It's a city called Burgamo, about 120,000 people, |
| 1:07.0 | and the hometown soccer team named Atalanta |
| 1:10.0 | is playing a huge match against the well-known |
| 1:13.1 | Spanish team, Valencia. |
| 1:16.7 | More than a third of the city is at the game going crazy. |
| 1:21.2 | The rest, they're cheering together at their home, restaurants and bars, cafes. |
| 1:27.0 | We've seen the |
| 1:29.1 | end uprozziani |
| 1:32.3 | owns a bar in Bergamo. |
| 1:34.5 | He gives it the English |
| 1:35.5 | name, Hog, like short for hedgehog. |
| 1:38.2 | And he says everyone made plans |
| 1:40.2 | to watch the Atalante game. |
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