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Speaker 1: Now we know that Darwin is hosting the Australia Cup

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Speaker 1: Final Round playoffs vital preliminary fixtures of the country's largest

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Speaker 1: Daniel knockout competition. Wellington Phoenix taking on the Brisbane Raw

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Speaker 1: tonight at the Darwin Football Stadium at about seven o'clock,

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Speaker 1: and we know the Central Coast Mariner's battled Perth glory

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Speaker 1: last night. Joining us live on the line is Football

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Speaker 1: nt CEO Jamie Monteeth. Good morning to you, Jamie.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, how are you?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Really well? Talk us through how did the game

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Speaker 1: go last night?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was fantastic. We had a bit of thriller

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Speaker 2: on our hands. We had the guys go tuning up,

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Speaker 2: so we had Central Coast go tuning up in the

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Speaker 2: first half. In the second half, Perth pulled it back

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Speaker 2: to two to two, went to extra time and then

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Speaker 2: we had the Perth winning on winning three two in

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Speaker 2: the end with Central Coast Mariners missing the penalty kick

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Speaker 2: in the last die minutes of the game. So it

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Speaker 2: was a great spectacle and I think, yeah, order the

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Speaker 2: darn On football community were in the event and Perth

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Speaker 2: obviously came out on top.

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Speaker 1: Oh, it sounds like it was an absolute cracker. Are

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Speaker 1: we expecting it to be that exciting tonight? Hopefully?

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Speaker 2: So? Yeah, we hope. So. I mean Brisbane and Wennington

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Speaker 2: are two notoriously really strong teams, so we're looking forward

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Speaker 2: to obviously welcoming them and the teams to the don

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Speaker 2: on the Football Stadium tonight and hopefully we get to

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Speaker 2: see a simmer sort of game play out.

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Speaker 1: So remind us how the competition works in terms of

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Speaker 1: these playoff rounds.

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Speaker 2: So look, effectively it's based off of the old FA

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Speaker 2: Cup method in the UK. It's the opportunity for I

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Speaker 2: suppose non A league teams to have the opportunity to

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Speaker 2: go out a higher level and play against the A

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Speaker 2: League team. So effectively, each state will have their own

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Speaker 2: playoff rounds and then effectively the A League teams coming

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Speaker 2: later on in that piece which is now to create

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Speaker 2: the last thirty two, and then the A League teams

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Speaker 2: then will play each other or ultimatively might get the

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Speaker 2: opportunity to play a lower league team. So it's just

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Speaker 2: great for the competition for the kind of I suppose

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Speaker 2: the other teams from around the States that aren't in

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Speaker 2: the Aliens get opportunities to play against these starts of teams.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like it, but it also sounds like

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Speaker 1: it's a wonderful opportunity. I mean to have games like this,

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Speaker 1: out of this caliber happening here in the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 1: Are they attracting? Are the games attracting big crowds?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Look, we're really pleased. I mean we just had

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Speaker 2: under two thousand people last night, and the whole point

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Speaker 2: of these games is exactly that is to bring I

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Speaker 2: suppose higher level football content to to the to the territory.

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Speaker 2: We're really pleased we've had this for this is our

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Speaker 2: third year of won this competition and we're hopefully going

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Speaker 2: to be coming out some really good news in the

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Speaker 2: coming coming months around more content for our football and

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Speaker 2: community of you know, for these guys to get their

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Speaker 2: get their tief around and get involved with.

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Speaker 1: And it's such like it's wonderful for our junior soccer

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Speaker 1: players to be able to see this kind of caliber

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Speaker 1: of of football happening. In the end, I mean, you

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Speaker 1: can't be what you can't see, and I think it's

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Speaker 1: really wonderful for our young people to see that kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff to aspire to.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look a bit a small visit a to Effington

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Speaker 2: yesterday with two of the teams going out there, and

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Speaker 2: it was great because the players that were talking to

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Speaker 2: these students were probably three or four years are older

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Speaker 2: than them. So it's really relevant to actually kind of

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Speaker 2: then talk about the pathways the opportunities that currently exist

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Speaker 2: within Australia. So I think, yeah, it is certainly that

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Speaker 2: I think it's a good opportunity for our young people

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Speaker 2: to aspire, to want and obviously create these role models

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Speaker 2: that allows them to have a pathway to actually play

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Speaker 2: at the highest possible standard if they do all the

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Speaker 2: right things. Obviously.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, Jamie Monteeth, CEO of Football Inte, it sounds

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Speaker 1: like you've hit the ground running mate. As the CEO,

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Speaker 1: it's all busy, busy for you.

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Speaker 2: It is expect nothing left. It's really exciting. So if

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Speaker 2: anyone's got anyone's got spare time tonight, come down and

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Speaker 2: watch the Phoenix take on the the Raw seven o'clock

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Speaker 2: at doar In Football Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Can they buy the tickets on the gate or do

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Speaker 1: you need to purchase online beforehand?

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Speaker 2: Now we we obviously want people to purchase online, but

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Speaker 2: say if you don't have the opportunity to do so.

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Speaker 2: We will be having the gate open for perching tickets

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Speaker 2: on the night as well.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff for football and t CEO Jamie Montez, good

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Speaker 1: to speak with you.

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Speaker 2: This morning, brilliant appreciate your time guys.

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Speaker 1: Thank you,