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Speaker 1: Good news for football fans.

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Speaker 2: This morning all white so I can announce to play

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Speaker 2: England no less ahead of the World Cup. This is

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Speaker 2: June seven, and Florida gives us our highest ranked opponent

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Speaker 2: in seventeen years. Andrew Pregnell is the CEO of New

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Speaker 2: Zealand Football as well as Andrew.

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Speaker 1: Morning morning, Mike. Thanks for having me, No, no, no worries.

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Speaker 2: Does the World Cup you generally open up these opportunities

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Speaker 2: or is this something actually really special?

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Speaker 3: It's obviously really special, partly opened by the World Cup.

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Speaker 3: Every team is looking for facts ahead of those critical

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Speaker 3: World Cup games. But increasingly over the last few years

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Speaker 3: we've been attracting more and more in stronger opposition from

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Speaker 3: around the world. So but yeah, England, our top ten nation, historic,

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Speaker 3: the home of football, couldn't be better.

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Speaker 1: Why Florida? And do we make money from it?

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Speaker 3: Florida? We're working to England the year in terms of

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Speaker 3: their location we obviously had. We're looking at another fixture

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Speaker 3: and now there won't be significant money for us. We're

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Speaker 3: prioritizing performance in this. If we're lucky, it's sort of

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Speaker 3: more of a break even this one, right, Oh absolutely, yeah,

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Speaker 3: look at I think English fans will flock to this

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Speaker 3: World Cup. They'll be there in number, in the stadium

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Speaker 3: will be sold out.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what are we Let me ask this question first

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Speaker 2: ahead of that, because we're going to say what do

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Speaker 2: we get out of it?

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Speaker 1: What do they get out?

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Speaker 3: Look, so most teams are looking for two fixtures ahead

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Speaker 3: of their World Cup games. They'll be looking to combine.

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Speaker 3: Different teams will be approaching differently. Some are looking to experiment.

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Speaker 3: Ultimately though, they're looking for a big hit out for

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Speaker 3: their team to prepare in the location that works for them.

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Speaker 3: And you know, we're increasingly seen as a strong team

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Speaker 3: that has been competing and getting results and against top

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Speaker 3: forty nations recently.

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Speaker 1: Full squad for both sides.

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Speaker 3: Yep, absolutely both full squads and we'll be looking to

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Speaker 3: field a very strong team obviously.

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Speaker 2: Fantastic Finland and Chile as well. What do we learn

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Speaker 2: out of them? I mean I don't know enough about

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Speaker 2: football to know whether Finland's any good?

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Speaker 1: Are they? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: They're reasonable? I mean all European teams and all South

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Speaker 3: American teams come with strengths needed have qualified for the

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Speaker 3: World Cup. But both are ranked above us, and so

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Speaker 3: those fixes are great even to bring European opposition this far,

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Speaker 3: to bring South American opposition to New Zealand's perfect for us.

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Speaker 3: And those are fixtures we absolutely should be winning heat

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Speaker 3: at a World Cup.

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Speaker 1: And you'll have your top sides for that or no.

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Speaker 3: Definitely obviously as well documented, Chris Woods still managing an injury,

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Speaker 3: but he's an absolute professional and so we're still working

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Speaker 3: with him to hopefully get him back home as well.

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Speaker 1: That's a good lineup.

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Speaker 2: You've got no excuses not to do it well at

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Speaker 2: the World Cup itself, have you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's a good one hundred percent.

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Speaker 3: And if for those have been following the team closely,

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Speaker 3: the last four years have been pretty amazing in terms

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Speaker 3: of fixtures, both at home and abroad. So our expectation is,

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Speaker 3: you know, to do things that have never been done

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Speaker 3: before twenty ten World Cup. A lot of Kiwis will

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Speaker 3: remember that as the undefeated team, so we've got to

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Speaker 3: raise the bar and go one better now.

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Speaker 2: Good stuff, Andrew, Nice to talk to you, Andrew Pragnell,

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Speaker 2: who is the New Zealand Football CEO.

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