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Speaker 1: Now Auckland City FC have managed something historic. They've knocked

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Speaker 1: one of Argentina's best football teams out of the FIFA

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Speaker 1: Club World Cup, having drawn one one with Bocker Juniors,

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Speaker 1: which is quite a turnaround because they got thumped ten

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Speaker 1: ten zip the other day. Wellington businessman Leon Grice helps

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Speaker 1: Auckland City FC fundraising is with us now.

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Speaker 2: Haile on, Hey, Heather, I think I have a red

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Speaker 2: wine to celebrate.

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Speaker 1: I think you might need to. Is that all You're

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Speaker 1: going to have? Just one little red wine?

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Speaker 2: Well? I think I might have a few more of it.

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Speaker 2: It was just it feels like a victory.

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Speaker 1: I have to say, yeah, now did you see this

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Speaker 1: coming in any of your possibilities did this feature as

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Speaker 1: one of them?

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Speaker 2: Well, I traveled with the team for the second of

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Speaker 2: June until the buy in game and had to come

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Speaker 2: home and kicking myself that I had to. But but

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Speaker 2: you know, this is a team, you know. And Paul Poser,

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Speaker 2: he's the coach, the team manager, and he once said

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Speaker 2: when we came third in a in a smaller Club

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Speaker 2: World Cup edition that just because you're doesn't mean you

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Speaker 2: can't play like professionals. And the biggest challenge for these

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Speaker 2: for this team, these boys is as amateurs, they needed

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Speaker 2: to adjust to the pace and the physicality of the game.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, we got absolutely you know, smashed by buying

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Speaker 2: Munich and we're actually did okay against ben Fika fifty

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Speaker 2: minutes not all. And then you know, then there was

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Speaker 2: a two hour break and our boys came back with

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Speaker 2: you know, sow legs. You know, they stiffened up and

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Speaker 2: they looked like that and we lost six nil to

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Speaker 2: ben Fica. But against Boca Juniors, you know, it doesn't

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Speaker 2: surprise me. I've seen them do this against top teams.

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Speaker 2: They are a team that plays forty eight games. They

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Speaker 2: play all over the world. They are the most traveled

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Speaker 2: New Zealand football team. You know, if you know Morocco,

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Speaker 2: the Fiend to the SA, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Solomon Island, Tahiti,

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Speaker 2: they played, you know, they play all over the world.

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Speaker 2: So they have the ability to rise and play. They're

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Speaker 2: not nearly as good man for man, but as a

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Speaker 2: team they can rise and they can compete.

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Speaker 1: And is it true that they get paid one hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty dollars a.

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Speaker 2: Week, that's all they're allowed to be paid as amateurs.

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Speaker 2: One hundred and fifty dollars a week, and then you know,

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Speaker 2: up against against Bayern Munich, we're up a team worth

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Speaker 2: two billion. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty remarkable. A It just goes to show

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Speaker 1: what could be, what could happen if we sunk some

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Speaker 1: serious coin into it. Leon, thank you, appreciate it and

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Speaker 1: enjoy your celebration in your red wine. Leon Grice, Wellington

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Speaker 1: Businessmen volunteer at Auckland City FC. For more from Heather

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