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Originally Posted by Thunderball
A-League has a couple intriguing former big names (Juan Mata and Douglas Costa) and has had some former huge ones (Del Piero) that assuredly helps bring in casuals and football snobs.
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Fun side story - In 2013, I saw a Melbourne Victory vs. Sydney FC game, was sold out... I contacted the Victory, told them I was a Canadian backpacker in the area at the time and needed to somehow see this game since I was a huge Del Piero fan; they contacted me a couple days later and invited us to sit in their premium seats for free, welcome to Australia and to enjoy the game on them. Got to see Del Piero at that time in all of his (cherry picking) glory haha. Seeing Del Piero at least once before he retired? Bucket list item checked off.
The Victory were so damn friendly and accommodating, just all-around class that week, A+ organization.