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Speaker 1: Andrew Pregnell is the boss of New Zealand Football. Andrew,

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Speaker 1: morning to.

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Speaker 2: You, Ben, Mike, thanks for having me, not at all.

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Speaker 1: Twenty five thousand. Glenn and I were arguing off here

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Speaker 1: about there's twenty five thousands not a big crowd? Why

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Speaker 1: was it about? Is football really that bigger? We over

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Speaker 1: fizzling ourselves on this or not.

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Speaker 2: We're definitely huge in terms of participation, obviously with the

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Speaker 2: biggest sport in the country by a fairly long mile.

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Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of things going on Monday

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Speaker 2: night it's always a bit tough, but you know, to

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Speaker 2: see twenty plus thousand sharp and we done forty five

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Speaker 2: thousand across the couple of days. The amount of content

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Speaker 2: going on and the atmosphere in the crowd last night phenomenal.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, look we're in a pretty heavy space.

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Speaker 1: Long as you long as you please. As far as

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Speaker 1: the World Cup is concerned, what are you expecting to do?

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Speaker 1: Because the other thing is we get excited about draws.

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Speaker 1: Are we going to win? Are we going to win

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Speaker 1: something and do well and get out of the main round?

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Speaker 2: Look, I think this is the greatest group of talent

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Speaker 2: that we've seen in the meinspase for well, probably ever

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Speaker 2: we've got four four players sign the premier league clubs.

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Speaker 2: They're all professionals playing around the world. Now the expectations

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Speaker 2: should be high. We're certainly not going to participate, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: the script, there's the capability not only to win games

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Speaker 2: but get out of the group. Key. We should be very,

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Speaker 2: very excited and very proud of a scrip of young men.

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Speaker 1: And every time we go and I remember Ady two

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Speaker 1: for a start, and that was genuinely exciting. But every

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Speaker 1: time we go, does it parley into kids playing you know, balls,

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Speaker 1: getting kicked on streets in the whole thing?

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, I mean I think the participation side

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Speaker 2: is just enymous. So I mean the having a quite

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Speaker 2: see here now, you know, with like a third day

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Speaker 2: league club. To be frank, the growth of the game

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Speaker 2: is sort of unstoppable, so it'll have a foreign effect.

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Speaker 2: I mean last night the kids going crazy have a

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Speaker 2: crossword who is now a global headline around the world. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's a phenomenal time for us.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, Andrew and enjoy I appreciate it very much.

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Speaker 1: Andrew pregnanll As regards the crowds Auckland get the same

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Speaker 1: number for a regular league game. The Warriors get the

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Speaker 1: same thing Saturday and Saturday Out was my only reason

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Speaker 1: for the question for a World Cup.

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Speaker 2: Follow the Warriors get twenty five thousand people to turn

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Speaker 2: up on a Monday.

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Speaker 1: Night, easy and then some watch them. Any to name

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Speaker 1: a day, name a stadium, I can give you twenty

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Speaker 1: three to twenty five.

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