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Speaker 1: Hither duplasy Ellen, So we have got the derby tomorrow afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Auckland FC is going to host the Wellington Phoenix in

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Speaker 1: front of a sold out Mount Smart crowd tomorrow in

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Speaker 1: the afternoon. Phoenix head coach Young Carlo Italiano is.

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Speaker 2: With us now. Hallo mate, Hi, how are you well?

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Speaker 1: Thank you?

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Speaker 2: Are you feeling confident?

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Speaker 3: I'm always confident every game I'm going to but there's

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Speaker 3: always a fear of not performing well, which is always

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Speaker 3: a good way to keep me in check.

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Speaker 1: What do you think? I mean, listen, even if you

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know that you're going to have a

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Speaker 1: bias and you're going to have the mixed feelings because

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Speaker 1: you're the competitor. But if you step back from who

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Speaker 1: you are and the job you are, the story about

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Speaker 1: Auckland FC is quite remarkable, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 3: I think your parallel is probably what where Sydney Wanderers did,

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Speaker 3: probably about ten years ago when they were introducing too

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Speaker 3: the league. They started, you know, as a new franchise,

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Speaker 3: and then they snowboard. I think they went ten games unbeaten.

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Speaker 3: I think it also maybe eleven games unbeating at the

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Speaker 3: beginning of the season and then from there they were

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Speaker 3: able to go and make a couple of Grand finals,

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Speaker 3: but then they won the Asian Champions League.

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Speaker 2: So it's great for the league.

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Speaker 3: It's it builds interest, especially for New Zealand general and

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Speaker 3: the football landscape.

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Speaker 2: So no, it is quite significant. And so where are

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Speaker 2: the West City Wonderings?

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Speaker 1: What are they called w Sydney Wanderers?

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Speaker 2: Western City Wonders?

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Speaker 1: Yea, And what's going on with them?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: Are they any good?

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Speaker 2: Well, no, they're not too bad.

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Speaker 3: You know, they've had you know, that success and I

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Speaker 3: think they've kind of lost their way a little bit

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Speaker 3: trying to get back to to the top of the mountain.

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Speaker 2: But that happens with all football clubs. What do you

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Speaker 2: put it down to?

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Speaker 1: How is it that Auckland Livetcy have managed to pull

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Speaker 1: this off?

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Speaker 3: I think money helps.

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Speaker 1: David Choates is all with Dnacy this week I said,

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Speaker 1: that's basically what's going on here.

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Speaker 2: Look, it does help. I mean this year.

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Speaker 3: I think with the A League in general, there's as

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Speaker 3: you would know, it's like a salary restricted a league,

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Speaker 3: so you know, most teams have a small allocation of

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Speaker 3: money that's kind of been effective for most part because

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Speaker 3: of the TV distribution deal. So any team that spent

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Speaker 3: money this year on players and they've recruited quite well,

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Speaker 3: have the opportunity to do well. So they've signed some

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Speaker 3: very good foreigners and make some competitive But again, look,

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Speaker 3: I think as well, when you sign someone like Steve

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Speaker 3: Coriker's coach who's won a couple of leagues, knows the

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Speaker 3: league inside out, it does make a big difference.

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Speaker 1: Right, So what do you I mean you obviously can't

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Speaker 1: say too much because you don't want to give you

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Speaker 1: a game plan away, But what do you reckon you

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Speaker 1: guys have to do tomorrow to win.

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Speaker 2: I'm always happy to give my game plan away. Just

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Speaker 2: know one asks, No.

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Speaker 3: I think the big thing is I think the game

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Speaker 3: is more. It can be played tactically. It can also

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Speaker 3: be played with the actual emotion in the of the

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Speaker 3: actual derby, because you know, it's it's unlike most competitive

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Speaker 3: games because it's more about bragging, right, So players take

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Speaker 3: that into the game. And I think when a team

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Speaker 3: defense so well like that like Auckland, have I think

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Speaker 3: scoring and if we'll just score early, it will change

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Speaker 3: the dynamic of the game and it will be a

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Speaker 3: real question about whether or not Auckland have any sort

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Speaker 3: of resilience.

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Speaker 2: Given their heads, I haven't.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I haven't experienced that yet, so I think that

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Speaker 3: that would be the game plan is, you know, it's

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Speaker 3: to score early. But again I'm happy to take a

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Speaker 3: one nial win at the death as well.

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Speaker 1: Hey, well, good luck, enjoy it tomorrow. I'm really looking

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Speaker 1: forward to watching it as gian Carlo Italiana Wellington Phoenix coach.

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