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Speaker 1: Hey, I'm John Green, author of The Faultner Stars, and

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Speaker 1: now I guess the co host of The Away End,

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Speaker 1: a brand new world soccer podcast with my friend of

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Speaker 1: thirty three years, Daniel Larcone him.

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Speaker 2: Hey man, I'm Danielle Alerconne, a writer and journalist, and

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Speaker 2: John and I have known each other since we were kids.

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Speaker 2: My first World Cup was Mexico eighty six.

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Speaker 3: I was nine years old.

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Speaker 2: I watched every game, and I fell in love. Every

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Speaker 2: four years since when a new edition of the world's

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Speaker 2: most popular sporting event begins, I'm nine years old all

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Speaker 2: over again.

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Speaker 3: For US soccer football.

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Speaker 1: It's a game that we've loved together since Daniel was

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Speaker 1: the star of our high school soccer team and I

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Speaker 1: was the ultra the only hardcore fan of that team.

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Speaker 2: The only part of that sentence is true, and it's

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Speaker 2: the part about John being the fan. He carried us

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Speaker 2: that season, and we've both been in love with the

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Speaker 2: game basically all of our lives.

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Speaker 3: And here we are starting a podcast. What's it about, John, It's.

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Speaker 1: About world football, and it's there to get us ready

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Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty six World Cup, where we will again,

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Speaker 1: as Daniel likes to say, be the same age that

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Speaker 1: we were during our first World Cup in nineteen eighty six.

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Speaker 1: I love this game. I love its history, it's hope,

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Speaker 1: it's heartbreak, and above all, its beauty.

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Speaker 2: So on the Away End, our brand new podcast will

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Speaker 2: be talking about the games, the teams, the players, and

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Speaker 2: all things that make this sporting event iconic and special

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Speaker 2: and something that we measure time by. And together we'll

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Speaker 2: find out why of all the unimportant things, football soccer

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Speaker 2: is the most important.

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Speaker 3: Listen to The Away End with Daniel L.

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Speaker 1: Raccone and John Green starting on January twenty first, on

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Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.