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Extended Clip - The Interview: Boxer Paulie Malignaggi Talks Italy At Euro 2024 (Ep. 430)
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Former boxing welterweight world champion Paulie Malignaggi talks Italy in EURO 2024 as well as how he watches the games with friends and family in New York.
This is an extended clip from this week's extra free interview episode of The Italian Football Podcast. The full interview is available for free in full on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google podcasts.
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Impact of Italian Team's Success on Local Businesses
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Speaker
and As long as Italy's alive in the tournament, the and italian ah ah establishments and businesses, they they do very well. um Everybody's always got a lot a lot of support at their restaurant, at their bars, at the cafes, for the games. you know So I like to see Italian businesses do well and Italians do getting together. So the Italian national team doing well, it produces that for for local Italian establishments. So ah so you know i hope I hope for that reason, they can they can they can they can do well as well and get as far as they can as well.
Discussion on Football Strategies
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Speaker
But I'd like to Again, personally, me I don't know why, at this point, you don't try out Shirawi. You need guys that take guys on. you you need you need it ah You need guys that will take on defenders. Honestly, if you can't take on the defenders, just pass them back. but You will not create any space for the opponent. Yeah, no highlights. Yeah, it's gotten frustrating.
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Yeah,
Italian-American Community's Excitement for Euros
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Speaker
for sure. I mean, you mentioned there about the Italian community. I mean, what's the vibe like among the Italian-American ah population in in like New York, and in especially in Bensonhurst, like with regards to the Euros? Is there a big buzz? Is everyone watching and celebrating the Italy matches? yeah Yeah, you know, I'm i'm i'm ah back and forth in Florida and New York, you know? So I'm not always up in New York, but I'll tell you what, the the games that I've seen are, everybody's very, very ah upbeat. And then you're yelling at them, you know? We beat, Italy beat Albania, that was, our but look, even the Albania game, 20 seconds in, you're behind, or whatever. 30 seconds in, they gave you behind, you know? But then you come back and win. Spain, the Spain game didn't really give much, much to cheer about. Honestly, the Croatia game didn't give much to cheer much to cheer about until the end.
Italian Team's Performance and Historical Optimism
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um But of course, you know, Italians are, ah
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Speaker
pessimistic optimists. Let's see. so but that pessim up but Every, every time, uh, Italy's playing, you know, because you know, the capabilities that Italy has shown in their history, never looking that never really plays a beautiful game for a lot of the, the years that Italy brings a team to tournaments, but always capable, always dangerous. And there's always a threat that Italy could wake up. I don't know, honestly, with the low diminishing levels that we have in Syria and the as among the Italians, what we're capable of in this tournament, but I saw Italy only win a Euro three years ago and I'll be happy to take with it. However far they get they get, they already got out of the first round. So that's, that's already ah a good thing.