Ali Moreno
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And to Jan's point, it's a World Cup year, right?
And one of the things that we do during the World Cup is we collect the stickers, right?
For the World Cup and the photo album of the World Cup teams.
In World Cups from years past, let's go back 20 years, you would know every single player that was gonna be in that Italian national team that was part of that photo album that you were collecting.
You knew who they were, you knew where they played, you knew their trajectory, you knew what they had won because that's how important and relevant they were in the landscape of world football.
with this Italian national team, assuming that they make it to the World Cup.
Assuming that they make it to the World Cup.
Which that in itself tells you where we are.
That this is part of the conversation.
We're no longer saying, well, for certain they're going to be in.
No, let's see if they get through the qualification process because Norway, when I say Norway kicked the backside of Italy, it is...
It was a whooping over two games.
Well, you don't think that you carry that with you if you're Italy, and a team with that sort of history, you don't think you carry the failures from the past into the qualification playoff?
And so we assume that they're gonna be in it, and that still doesn't change the fact that those players, you have Donnarumma here, maybe this guy over there.