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  • • Impact of CBA on MLS media rights: On The Soccer Media
    Editor’s note: Every week, World Soccer Talk Senior Writer Kartik Krishnaiyer shares his observations of watching world soccer on US television and streaming, as well as insights into the latest developments within the soccer TV......2020
  • • A sterile aesthetic in American soccer fandom
    Editor’s Note: Spencer Abel examines the aesthetic of soccer support in today’s stadiums and reflects on the broader interest for soccer in America.  The aesthetic of soccer has a persuasive power that’s able to knock the reason out of a spectator. In American soccer, that aesthetic is blunt. Catching a full 90 minutes of soccer in the United States often leads to confusion ...2018
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  • • MLS will hit point of diminishing returns if league doesn’t embrace change
    MLS continues to pat itself on the back. And why shouldn’t it, many would ask? The 2018 season has seen MLS reach new heights in visibility and quality of play relative to a past when the league existed in a complete vacuum and the level of soccer on display was average by any truly objective standard. But permanent growth is difficult in a closed-league, single-entity (MLS) or franchise-bas...2018
  • • ‘What’s Wrong with US?’ book should be retitled ‘What’s Wrong with Bruce Arena’
    As we know, the United States men’s soccer team failed to qualify for this year’s World Cup. This simple fact sent shockwaves throughout US soccer. Everyone, it seemed, has an opinion on what went wrong and what the nation has to do to improve. Few, however, are actually in any sort of position to affect change. In fact, many and most not only lack the necessary acumen to offer up mean...2018
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  • • Ibrahimovic close to MLS move – report
    London (AFP) – Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s time at Manchester United could come to an end as early as this week with a move to Major League Soccer in the pipeline, according to a report on Thursday. Ibrahimovic, whose contract expires in June, has made just seven appearances for United this season on his return from a cruciate knee ligament injury. “Zlatan Ibrahimovic has played his las...2018
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  • • Football: Altidore, Vazquez seal MLS Cup for Toronto
    Montreal (AFP) – Toronto FC claimed their maiden MLS Cup crown on Saturday, capping a magical Major League Soccer season with a 2-0 triumph over Seattle Sounders in Toronto. Jozy Altidore fired Toronto into the lead in the 67th minute and Vazquez sent the crowd at BMO field into a frenzy when he sealed the win in the fourth minute of second-half injury time. Toronto, who endured a heartbreak...2017
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  • • 10 things we learned from MLS gameweek 30 of the 2017 season
    Here are the ten things we learned from Week 30 of the 2017 MLS season. 1. Toronto Clinches The Shield In a coronation months in the making, Toronto FC won its and Canada’s first Supporters’ Shield on Saturday night at BMO Field with a resounding 4-2 win over the suddenly-reeling New York Red Bulls. With 32 games in the books, Toronto has amassed 65 points and lost just five games R...2017
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  • • 10 things we learned from MLS gameweek 29 of the 2017 season
    Here are the ten things we learned from Week 29 of the 2017 MLS season. 1. Dallas’ Nosedive Continues FC Dallas entered this weekend without a win in their last nine games dating back to July 22 – having fallen from first place in the Western Conference to below the playoff red line. In Minneapolis on Saturday night, the tailspin continued. Dallas had an early goal ruled out for offsid...2017
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  • • 10 things we learned from MLS gameweek 18 of the 2017 season
    Here are the ten things we learned from Week 18 of the 2017 MLS season. 1. Get Cincinnati to MLS The game of the year in American club soccer was played – get this – in the U.S. Open Cup round of sixteen on a warm Wednesday night in June in Cincinnati, Ohio. FC Cincinnati, of the USL, knocked the MLS-best Chicago Fire out of the tournament on penalty kicks after a heart-stopping 120 mi...2017
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  • • Injury-time winner sinks Dallas in CONCACAF Champions League
    Mexico City (AFP) – An injury-time winner from Hirving Lozano saw Mexican side Pachuca snatch a 3-1 victory over FC Dallas on Tuesday to fire the Liga MX outfit into the final of the CONCACAF Champions League. Major League Soccer’s Dallas looked to have forced extra-time after Cristian Colman scored in the 86th minute to level the game at 3-3 on aggregate. But the Mexicans grabbed a dr...2017
  • • Rooney salvages point for Manchester United with record-breaking strike
    Stoke-on-Trent (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Wayne Rooney fired home a spectacular injury-time equaliser to break Bobby Charlton’s Manchester United goalscoring record and force a 1-1 draw with Stoke City in Saturday’s Premier League clash. Rooney couldn’t have chosen a better way to grab his 250th goal for the club from a free-kick with time running out after United had trailed...2017
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  • • Will Johnson’s last stand at Orlando City SC
    It’s been a tumultuous two years for Will Johnson. On September 27th of 2014, Johnson, then the Portland Timbers’ captain, collided with Toronto FC defender Mark Bloom less than a minute into a game at BMO Field in Johnson’s hometown of Toronto and broke his right leg. Johnson wouldn’t play first-team football again until May of 2015, when his return to the Timbers lineup sparked a run of five str...2017
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    "Despite this, attendance was down at Mexico The post Top 50 most-attended soccer games in United States during 2017 appeared first on World Soccer Talk."

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    "Meanwhile, FC Dallas must not have made a lot on game day food and The post Atlanta United surpasses Seattle Sounders as kings of MLS attendances appeared first on World Soccer Talk."

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  • • ‘What’s Wrong with US?’ book should be retitled ‘What’s Wrong with Bruce Arena’
    As we know, the United States men’s soccer team failed to qualify for this year’s World Cup. This simple fact sent shockwaves throughout US soccer. Everyone, it seemed, has an opinion on what went wrong and what the nation has to do to improve. Few, however, are actually in any sort of position to affect change. In fact, many and most not only lack the necessary acumen to offer up mean...2018
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  • • Creating the ultimate soccer league with best attributes from leagues around world
    What if you could combine the best parts of soccer leagues from around the world, and turn them into one league that, on paper, would be the ultimate soccer league? Writer Greg McKay lets us inside to see what it would look like. Super clubs dominate European leagues. Fans of smaller teams in those leagues will feel more strongly about borrowing the concept of a salary cap. Though you will not fin...2018
  • • Ibrahimovic close to MLS move – report
    London (AFP) – Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s time at Manchester United could come to an end as early as this week with a move to Major League Soccer in the pipeline, according to a report on Thursday. Ibrahimovic, whose contract expires in June, has made just seven appearances for United this season on his return from a cruciate knee ligament injury. “Zlatan Ibrahimovic has played his las...2018
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  • • ESPN Plus’ niche audiences could help increase MLS exposure
    Self-dubbed as the “Netflix for sports,” ESPN Plus, a new streaming service from Disney is set to make its debut this spring. Beyond the recycling nomenclature once used by ESPN to brand syndicated college sports broadcasts on regional sports networks and local over-the-air channel, this concept is entirely new. The service will cost just $4.99 a month, but serves as a hybrid of sorts ...2018
  • • MLS will hurt growth of US soccer by rejecting $4 billion TV offer and promotion/relegation
    If ever there needed to be evidence that MLS is completely entrenched in its single entity model for soccer, Monday’s revelation that it rejected a $4 billion TV deal from MP & Silva was it. Imagine for a minute how an injection of $4 billion in cash could transform the United States into a powerhouse of soccer. The money would give the league the opportunity to compete with teams f...2017
  • • MLS’ rejection of $4 billion TV offer from MP & Silva could be beginning of saga
    MLS has quietly rebuffed a $4 billion offer from MP & Silva that would have quadrupled the broadcast rights fee the league currently receives from its deals with FOX Sports, Univision and ESPN, according to a story in Sports Business Journal. The deal came with one catch, which was too much for MLS to absorb — the institution of a promotion/relegation system within the top two divis...2017
  • • 10 things we learned from MLS gameweek 11 of the 2017 season
    Here are the ten things we learned from Week 11 of the 2017 MLS season. 1. A Return To The Spotlight For Chicago For one night, at least, Chicago finally returned to the center of the MLS universe. With ESPN and the defending champion Seattle Sounders in town for a Saturday night primetime clash, the Fire sold out Toyota Park for the first time since the fall of 2015 – and the more than 20,0...2017
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  • • Kaka tops MLS salaries list
    Los Angeles (AFP) – Former Brazil star Kaka topped the list of Major League Soccer’s highest-paid players for a third straight year, according to official figures released on Tuesday. A comprehensive breakdown of basic salary and guaranteed earnings issued by the MLS Players Union showed Orlando’s Kaka coming out on top with wages of $7.168 million (6.553 million euros). The 35-y...2017
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  • • 10 things we learned from MLS gameweek 5 of the 2017 season
    Here are the ten things we learned from Week 5 of the 2017 MLS season. 1. An Unusually Busy March Week There is more pressure to win in MLS in 2017 than we’ve ever seen before, and that’s how – just four weeks into the season – you get a week like the one we just saw across the league. Consider: Real Salt Lake promoted Mike Petke to replace Jeff Cassar – fired after j...2017
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  • • Evaluating the 12 MLS expansion cities through the lens of future TV contracts
    It’s been often overlooked that as MLS expands and is adding four new clubs in the next round of expansion, that television market size and media profile might factor heavily into the decision making process. While some markets have established themselves at the lower division level, others that have not might be under strong consideration because MLS needs to have a stronger mix of larger TV mark...2017

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  • • For the US Men’s National Team, the path to success starts in Europe
    For those who watched the World Cup qualifiers, the American players often looked tentative, with long stretches of idleness and indecision. Maybe the idea of pulling on the USMNT jersey was too much for some. That the USMNT lost a critical game to Trinidad & Tobago, a country the size of Dallas, exposed the enormous cracks in the United States soccer foundation. The USMNT’s feeble secon...2018
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  • • 10 things we learned from MLS gameweek 30 of the 2017 season
    Here are the ten things we learned from Week 30 of the 2017 MLS season. 1. Toronto Clinches The Shield In a coronation months in the making, Toronto FC won its and Canada’s first Supporters’ Shield on Saturday night at BMO Field with a resounding 4-2 win over the suddenly-reeling New York Red Bulls. With 32 games in the books, Toronto has amassed 65 points and lost just five games R...2017
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  • • 10 things we learned from MLS gameweek 27 of the 2017 season
    Here are the ten things we learned from Week 27 of the 2017 MLS season. 1. The Playoff Picture Clears Up With Real Salt Lake and San Jose losing this weekend – and despite the fact that Dallas continues to stare into the abyss – the Western Conference playoff race appears to be settled. Houston and Dallas both have games in hand on the ‘Quakes and RSL, and points to spare. Positi...2017
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  • • 10 things we learned from MLS gameweek 19 of the 2017 season
    Here are the ten things we learned from Week 19 of the 2017 MLS season. 1. The Fourth of July Massacre There were plenty of entertaining and important games in MLS’ midweek, fourth of July-centered Week 19 slate. But for pure shock value, nothing we saw over the last two days compared to what happened on Tuesday night at the StubHub Center. Real Salt Lake – the league’s worst clu...2017
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  • • Tigres reach CONCACAF Champions League final as Gignac scores
    Los Angeles (AFP) – Mexico’s stranglehold on the CONCACAF Champions League will be assured once more after Tigres UANL downed Major League Soccer’s Vancouver Whitecaps 2-1 to set up a final showdown with Pachuca. Mexican teams have been near-invincible in the CONCACAF region’s premier club competition over the past decade, winning every title since 2006. This year’s f...2017
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  • • MLS opener between Portland-Minnesota scores disappointing TV ratings on FS1
    The opening game of the 2017 MLS season between Portland Timbers and Minnesota United scored a disappointing viewing audience of 235,000 across FS1 and FOX Deportes combined, according to Sports TV Ratings. The game ended in a 5-1 scoreline to the Timbers on a rainy night in Oregon. The match was televised live from 9:30-11:30pm ET featuring host Rob Stone and commentators John Strong and Alexi La...2017
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  • • Rooney salvages point for Manchester United with record-breaking strike
    Stoke-on-Trent (United Kingdom) (AFP) – Wayne Rooney fired home a spectacular injury-time equaliser to break Bobby Charlton’s Manchester United goalscoring record and force a 1-1 draw with Stoke City in Saturday’s Premier League clash. Rooney couldn’t have chosen a better way to grab his 250th goal for the club from a free-kick with time running out after United had trailed...2017
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  • • For the US Men’s National Team, the path to success starts in Europe
    2018
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  • • Beckham open to possibility of NWSL team for Miami
    David Beckham is open to the possibility of Miami’s new MLS franchise fielding a NWSL team in the future, according to his remarks in a press conference on Monday. Asked whether Beckham would be interested in adding a women’s team, Beckham said, “At the moment, we have a blank canvas so we want to create a community with our club. It’s not just being a MLS team, which obvio...2018
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  • • Nico Cantor interview: Paving his way to success as a soccer commentator
    Nicolas “Nico” Cantor, the son of the most famous soccer television announcer in the United States regardless of language, was hired by Univision Deportes in January 2017 as as the English-language play-by-play voice of Liga MX matches on the Univision Deportes Facebook page and Major League Soccer (MLS) matches on the Second Audio Program (SAP) of Univision Deportes Network (UDN). Nic...2017

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  • • Atlanta United surpasses Seattle Sounders as kings of MLS attendances
    Atlanta United has surpassed Seattle Sounders for the best average attendance in MLS this season. The 2017 debutant is averaging 49,077 fans per game at the Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta. Meanwhile, Seattle Sounders is averaging 43,004 per game in 2017, which is a 8% increase from last season. Altogether, MLS reported pretty good numbers across the league for attendances this past weekend. Having ...2017
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  • • MLS cannot escape blame for US implosion in World Cup qualifying
    The United States’ failure to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup is a devastating blow for the sport in this country, but it’s also a clear reflection of how much of a damaging effect the top-flight league has had on the national team in the last number of years. Coached by Bruce Arena, who has never coached a professional club team outside of the United States, he fielded a team on T...2017
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  • • 2017 MLS Cup final viewership drops 43% across ESPN and Univision Deportes
    The 2017 MLS Cup final between Toronto FC and Seattle Sounders averaged 1.1 million viewers across ESPN, UniMas and Univision Deportes combined, which is a 43% drop compared to last year’s final. On the English-language ESPN broadcast, the match averaged 803,000 viewers. Meanwhile, the game averaged 304,000 viewers on UniMas and Univision Deportes. In isolation, the 1,143,000 viewing number ...2017
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  • • Q&A with rising Atlanta United FC U-18 star Lagos Kunga
    It’s safe to say that Atlanta United U-18 forward (and high school senior) Lagos Kunga has had a pretty solid start to his 2017.  Not only was he one of seven youth players to be called up to the senior squad for preseason training in January, but he also made coach Brad Friedel’s U-19 USMNT camp as well.  The week long training camp is currently ongoing in Sunrise, Florida a...2017
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  • • Antitrust lawsuit: NASL dug its own grave despite USSF-MLS collusion
    What do investors in soccer do when they’ve made one bad business decision after another? And to make matters worse, when they’ve shifted from one rhetorical strategy to another? Sue their governing body, of course! This is the path the North American Soccer League (NASL) has chosen to justify the league’s complete failure to create a stable and successful second division that wo...2017
  • • Impact of CBA on MLS media rights: On The Soccer Media
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  • • Top 50 most-attended soccer games in United States during 2017
    The year 2017 was full of positives for attendances at soccer matches throughout the United States. First, it was another successful summer for the International Champions Cup. The annual soccer tournament had the three most-attended soccer games in the United States as well as six out of the top ten attendances nationwide. Second, in MLS, both Atlanta United and Seattle Sounders ruled the roost w...2018
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  • • For the US Men’s National Team, the path to success starts in Europe
    2018
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  • • The future of soccer broadcasting is going to get expensive for consumers
    In the next five years, we are certain to see more volatility in the way soccer is broadcast and delivered to US audiences. As the broadcast and media industry in the United States continues to evolve in order to adjust to new realities in terms of audiences, it’s likely that change will be a common theme for the next several years as well as adding more confusing for consumers as they try t...2018
  • • Crystal Palace-Leicester viewing number beats Orlando-LA Galaxy MLS game on FOX
    The viewing number for MLS’ first over-the-air broadcast on English-language television in 2017 is in, and the news isn’t good. In previous years, whenever Premier League TV ratings in the United States have beaten MLS viewing numbers for games played during the same weekend, MLS apologists have insisted it was due to Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal or another big Premier League cl...2017
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  • • MLS will hurt growth of US soccer by rejecting $4 billion TV offer and promotion/relegation
    2017
  • • Carlos Cordeiro’s tenure will be judged by how he handles Soccer United Marketing (SUM)
    After Carlos Cordeiro’s election win this past weekend as US Soccer Federation (USSF) President, the general sense is that Cordeiro’s management style will be different than his predecessor Sunil Gulati and that he will attempt to find a more consensus-based approach to issues. But in terms of general policies and positions, he doesn’t differ from Gulati very much except in one n...2018
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  • • ESPN Plus’ niche audiences could help increase MLS exposure
    2018
  • • MLS takes calculated risk with Miami amidst stadium concerns
    On Monday, MLS did what it promised not to do in Miami. The top-flight soccer league in the United States approved Miami as its newest expansion team even though the stadium location is far from being finalized and the plans could be in jeopardy of imploding this summer if a court’s ruling doesn’t go its way. In 2014, MLS Commissioner Don Garber said in his state of the league address ...2018
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  • • Atlanta United expectations at a fever pitch for second season in MLS
    As a huge fan of European soccer, I usually stray away from watching the MLS because the difference in quality is so noticeably vast. However, this year I’ll be making an exception by trying to tune in to watch as many Atlanta United games as I possibly can. Last year, Atlanta United became the third-ever MLS expansion team to qualify for the playoffs in their inaugural season. Stacked with ...2018
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  • • For the US Men’s National Team, the path to success starts in Europe
    2018
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  • • 5 things we learned from MLS Cup 2017
    Here are the five things we learned from MLS Cup 2017. 1. Toronto Claims Its Place in History It hadn’t been the easiest of journeys through the playoffs for Toronto FC, but on Saturday evening at BMO Field, they left no doubt as to their place as one of the best MLS team ever assembled. The game might have hung in the balance until second half stoppage time, but TFC played the Seattle Sound...2017
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  • • MLS audience jumps 38% for MLS Cup Playoffs across ESPN and ESPN2
    Buoyed by the increased interest in watching MLS games because of the Columbus Crew controversy, ESPN’s audience for the 2017 MLS Cup Playoffs is up 38 percent entering this weekend’s MLS Cup Final. The seven playoff matches on ESPN and ESPN2 to date have delivered an average audience of 343,000 viewers, according to Nielsen, up from 249,000 viewers for the six playoff matches in 2016....2017
  • • 10 things we learned from MLS gameweek 33 of the 2017 season
    Here are the ten things we learned from Week 33 of the 2017 MLS season. 1. San Jose Sneaks In, Ignominy for Dallas There was only one playoff spot up for grabs on the season’s final day: the Western Conference’s sixth and final seed. San Jose, by virtue of its wins tiebreaker over FC Dallas and point advantage over Real Salt Lake, held the keys going into the day. Beat Minnesota United...2017
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  • • MLS attendances through gameweek 30 of the 2017 season
    In the latest reported attendance numbers for MLS, the league is averaging 21,781 this season, which is up 1.26% compared to 2016. For Columbus Crew, who have concluded their home schedule of fixtures, the club’s average attendance dropped 9.84% compared to last season. Meanwhile, Atlanta United and Seattle both have two home matches remaining in the season, which should help give MLS a mino...2017
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  • • 10 things we learned from MLS gameweek 29 of the 2017 season
    2017
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  • • 10 things we learned from MLS gameweek 27 of the 2017 season
    2017
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  • • MLS reported attendances down 6.5% after first 21 games of 2017 season
    Cold weather ruined attendances at most venues for gameweek 2 of the 2017 MLS season. So much so, in fact, that reported attendances are down 6.5% for the first 21 games of the 2017 MLS season compared to last season. It was cold enough last weekend that New England rescheduled its match with Orlando to September. Minnesota had the added bonus of snow. I don’t know how many of the reported 3...2017
  • • Dempsey given all-clear to return
    Los Angeles (AFP) – United States forward Clint Dempsey has been given the all-clear to return to football following a six-month layoff due to an irregular heartbeat, US Soccer confirmed. The Seattle Sounders striker, who had not played since last August, has already played 30 minutes and a full 45 minutes during pre-season action for the reigning champions of Major League Soccer. “Rig...2017
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