PRESS ARCHIVE
August 3, 2005
3 athletes awarded Lione scholarship
By Emery Filmer
Staff Writer, The Advocate
2005 Southern CT Newspapers, Inc.
The $7,500 scholarship that comes with winning the honor is wonderful, to say the least. The prestige that accompanies the recognition of being named a Mickey Lione Jr. Scholarship For Youth Excellence award winner is, well, priceless.
Three local student athletes who will be entering their junior year of high school, were recently honored by the Mickey Lione Fund as this year's recipients for the award: Mathew Richichi of Westhill High School, Vincent Cortese of Trinity Catholic and Daniel Zuchelli of Stamford High.
The trio will each receive the full scholarship amount, which was increased from $5,000 to $7,500 this year, Fund Chairman Jerry Lione said.
The money will, of course, be welcomed by each recipient's family. But when they stop and think about the person for whom the award is named - the real meaning of the honor - it becomes even more significant.
Here is the statement each candidate must read carefully before being interviewed by the Fund's selection committee: "The Lione award, given in the name of former Trinity Catholic and youth league coaching legend Mickey Lione Jr., is granted to a sophomore at (Westhill, Trinity Catholic and Stamford) as an acknowledgement of those particular qualities of excellence and leadership displayed by Lione that each have exhibited in their lives. It is also offered as further incentive in their final two years of high school to consistently emulate those values and high standards of leadership."
In other words, in the opinion of the selection committee, these youngsters must personify the characteristics of Lione. Anyone who knew the coaching legend and leader of young men who passed away in 1999 after decades of coaching baseball, hockey and football, can understand the essence of such a comparison.
"I'm speechless," Richichi said. The non-profit organization gives a scholarship award to one student at each of the three Stamford high schools each year. Since the foundation's inception in 2001, 21 students have received the award (three sophomores and three seniors were honored in each of the first two years, then just three sophomores).
In addition to the three individual scholarships that were awarded, the Mickey Lione Jr. Fund also awarded a grant to Babe Ruth Baseball of Stamford. That organization, as well as the Stamford Youth Foundation's Mickey Lione Jr. Middle School Football and Cheerleader Division, the Greater Stamford Tennis Association, the Junior Tennis Outreach Program and the Allyson Rioux Scholarship Fund have also received financial support from the Lione Fund in recent years.
"The Stamford community's generous response to our fund raising efforts has resulted in our being able to increase the (scholarship) amount and, more importantly, assure that these awards will remain available in perpetuity," Jerry Lione said. "We hope to continue to grow the award amount and perhaps in the future increase the number of awards as well."
Here is a look at this year's honorees:
Matthew Richichi, Westhill
Richichi just completed his sophomore year in high school, a bit early to decide his future. He's not ruling out football or baseball, two sports he has played so far during his scholastic career at Westhill, but he can probably eliminate one possibility: Acting. "When I received the letter informing me that (the Lione Fund) had selected me as the winner from Westhill, I was going to try and fool my parents and have them think I didn't win," Richichi said. "But when they came in, I was so happy I could keep a straight face. I just couldn't do it."
OK, so Richichi is a better football and baseball player than actor. He was the Vikings' back-up wide receiver last fall as a sophomore, although he played about as much as now graduated starter Scott Stone. Richichi and Stone alternated by relaying the plays in from the bench. "At first I figured I'd be on junior varsity last season, but then they told me I was going to be second string varsity," Richichi said. "They didn't throw the ball very much to the wide receivers. It was pretty much to the running backs and tight ends most of the time, but I got a lot of time on the field. Next year, with Scott gone, I expect to start."
Richichi is a graduate of the middle school football program, having played at Cloonan Middle School. It has been a series of baby steps for the 16-year-old on the football field, but that may all change this fall. Richichi's baseball career is moving at a slightly slower pace. The third baseman saw a lot of action on the junior varsity team early in the spring. "Right now I'm better in the field than with the bat," he said. "My goal in baseball is to be a big contributor by the time I'm a senior."
For now, he'll concentrate on preparations for football... and bask in the glory of winning the Lione award. "It's such a great honor," he said. "I guess I'm shocked. I was very nervous during the interview and I didn't think I'd get it. I have pretty good grades and I play sports. But I also do a lot of volunteer work with the mentally challenged and for my church. I guess they were looking for someone well-rounded."
Vinny Cortese, Trinity Catholic
Cortese was just 10 when Lione died six years ago at age 59 and never got to meet Lione, But it's hard to attend Trinity Catholic and not get a feel for what Lione meant, both on the playing field and off, to the community. "Unfortunately I have little knowledge about him because I was only 10 when he died, but I can tell what he meant to this school," Cortese said. "What I know for sure is that it is a very prestigious award. It means so much. I beat out a lot of kids, probably more qualified than me. I guess it came from a lot of hard work and dedication."
Hard work and dedication. Those are two ideals Lione practiced and preached for decades. And they're two that have helped make Cortese a potential star at TCHS. Cortese saw time on the varsity football team as a freshman and really came into his own last fal with Crusaders, who finished 1-10. Cortese, who also plays hockey, was named honorable mention All-Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference after his sophomore season as the Crusaders' starting offensive guard and linebacker. Cortese performed well despite the most difficult of circumstances. "It was tough," he said of the team's losing ways. "When you put in a lot of hard work and don't see much success, it's hard. We hit rock bottom, though, so with only four seniors last year and so much youth, we can only get better.
Cortese won't say that football is his favorite sport. "It depends on what season it is," he said. Cortese is looking forward to taking his position on the blue line as one of the Crusaders' top defensemen.
Cortese, who came up through the Stamford Youth Hockey Association, played varsity hockey as both a freshman and a sophomore. Cortese says he is playing in a summer hockey league and is also playing some non-contact football. He is also spending a lot of time in the weight room, preparing for the football season. His long-term goal is to eventually play college football. "There's a lot to look forward to," he said.
Daniel Zuchelli, Stamford
There are multiple factors used in selecting a Lione award recipient. One of those clearly is potential. The Lione committee must have had that in mind when choosing Stamford High's Daniel Zuchelli, whose athletic and professional careers are still relatively in their infancy stage. Zuchelli played varsity lacrosse at Stamford and has yet to experience the thrill of victory as the Knights' went winless in Zuchelli's freshman and sophomore seasons, the second and third years the program existed at the varsity level. Zuchelli also ran cross country where he has yet to break 20 minutes (a cross country race is 5k, or 3.1 miles).
"I decided to give lacrosse a try when I got to Stamford High and I worked pretty hard my freshman year," Zuchelli said. Head coach Jeremy White obviously saw some potential as he named Zuchelli a co-captain as a sophomore last season, something virtually unheard of in scholastic sports. The progress in cross country has come a bit more gradually. "I'm not so great," he said of his current stature on the cross country team. "I've been running just over 20 minutes and my goal is to get under 20. Getting under 20 is pretty good. By next year, I'll get under 20, you'll see."
Zuchelli's determination and aspirations are what may have attracted the Lione committee to him. And aside from sports, he has also set his sights high. "I have aspirations to be a doctor," he said. Zuchelli has spent this summer interning as a volunteer at Southhampton Hospital in Southhampton, N.Y. "I'm serving an internship at a cardiologist's office," Zuchelli said. "My uncle is a doctor and I'd like to be one, too."
Zuchelli was also the sophomore class treasurer and will hold the same position with this year's junior class, all of which made him a rather easy choice for the Lione committee. "I've heard of Mickey Lione and know he was a great man and coach, and I played in the National-Lione Little League (which is named after Mickey Lione, Sr.)," Zuchelli said. "It's a tremendous feeling getting this award. A real honor."
Affair helps keep Lione's memory alive
By Dave Ruden
Staff Writer , The Advocate
©2005 Southern CT Newspapers, Inc.
It would have been easy to forget why an estimated 1,000 people were crammed into a pair of ballrooms at the Westin Stamford Monday night. It was more than the top quality wine and food that was being sampled, the BMW SUV that was being raffled or the Flair bartenders who made Tom Cruise's "Cocktail" character look like a lightweight.
Those in attendance probably remember rubbing shoulders with Tiki Barber, who was mobbed like a rock star and took more hits than he did all season with the Giants, Phil Simms, Kristine Lilly, Gail Goodrich and Chris Russo.
But for the 20 board members - and in the name of full disclosure, I am one of them - of the Mickey Lione Jr., Scholarship Fund for Youth Excellence, the third annual Bobby Valentine Celebrity Wine and Food Experience was about ensuring that Lione's legacy exists in perpetuity.
Which is why Roseann Lione, Mickey's sister, made sure when she approached Barber to let him know why his presence and patience in signing so many autographs and posing for so many pictures was necessary.
It was why Valentine, who spent nearly all of his free time once he returned from Japan in November dedicating himself to the details that made Monday night a success, shared stories of the man who was a regular visitor to his Shea Stadium office when he managed the Mets.
With all the distractions in the ballrooms, hopefully more than just those who knew Mickey stopped by a slide display that had pictures and story reprints of Lione, the best high school coach I have encountered.
Mickey was many things to many people: a coach, teacher, mentor, confidante, advisor, sounding board. He made as big an impact on Stamford's playing fields and hockey rinks as the best teachers do in the classroom.
It would be easy to measure Mickey, who passed away five years ago, by his 731 wins and six state championships coaching baseball and hockey, or for the two World Championship youth baseball teams he played on.
That was what Mickey accomplished, but not what he meant. Everyone was touched by him in a different way, usually with humorous consequences.
I first met Mickey about 20 years ago, when I was covering a baseball game between Andrew Warde and Mickey's Trinity Catholic team in Stamford. After a spirited contest, a brawl broke out as the teams shook hands. Mickey narrowly avoided taking a knockout punch before helping to break up the fight.
At the time Mickey was a night manager for Valentine's downtown eatery, and whenever I saw him recounting the fight was the introduction to a long conversation.
When I joined The Advocate years later I got an insider's view into how Mickey's mind worked. He had vision that other coaches lacked, an ability to anticipate few were blessed with.
But Mickey's incomparable ability as a strategist trailed the way he shaped young men. Today Mickey would be called old school. He believed in fundamentals. He would disdain the type of celebrations that have become commonplace in the NFL because they draw away from the team.
And the team always came first.
Mickey's players have been leaders in the community and a new generation is beginning to make an impact. One, Bryan Fox, is now the football coach at Trinity Catholic. Imagine how proud Mickey would be to see one of his own on the Crusaders' sideline.
The question always asked is whether Mickey could coach the contemporary athlete. Absolutely. For whether they want to admit it or not, athletes crave discipline, guidance and the direction map to victory. Mickey commanded too much respect for anyone not to listen to him.
At the end of the day, by shaping better people, Mickey made better athletes.
And that was why there was a melting pot in attendance for Monday's gala. It has become the social event, but it is much more than that.
It is not just about bidding on sports memorabilia or trying to win a new car.
There were young and old in the ballroom. Some of the 21 student-athletes from Trinity, Westhill and Stamford High who have received scholarships served as volunteers because they wanted to give something back. It was important to have them there: they will be Mickey's new voices some day.
None of this could be done without Valentine, who can accomplish more in a day than most can in a month. The celebrities who came out did so as a favor to Valentine, because they knew how much the night meant to him.
So what seemed like a big party to most had greater significance to those of us who want to make sure the name Mickey Lione is never forgotten.
And as Monday night proved, it won't be. He had too many good people working the room.
- Dave Ruden can be reached at dave.ruden@scni.com
Lione's spirit
still alive and well
Dave Ruden, Staff Writer
Courtesy of The Stamford Advocate, Jan. 25, 2004
©2004 Southern CT. Newspapers, Inc.
Mickey Lione lives. Or, more accurately, his spirit endures. That was
evident last Monday night, at the Stamford Marriott, site of the second
annual Bobby Valentine Celebrity Wine and Food Experience.
In the fairness of full disclosure, I am a board member of the Mickey
Lione Jr. Fund, which was founded four years ago to see that all the qualities
Lione represented remain in perpetuity.
Monday's event is the biggest fundraiser for a foundation that awards
scholarships to high school student-athletes who share Lione's ideals.
It also bestows money to a number of youth sports programs.
It was not easy to forget during Monday's gala, where patrons got to sample
some of the finest wine and food from local eateries, mingle with a long
list of celebrities and bid on assorted sports memorabilia, what the night
was all about.
A video board kept flashing pictures of Lione, one of the best coaches
this city ever produced. He was a teacher who molded young minds, only
Lione's classroom was the football field, the baseball diamond, the hockey
rink. Before his untimely death in 1999, at the age of 59, Lione's Trinity
Catholic teams won 731 games and six state titles.
But it is difficult to measure Lione's impact in mere numbers, and that's
where Monday night comes in. There was somewhere between 700-800 people
in attendance. Many of them played with Lione, coached with him, of were
coached by him. His reach extended way beyond the Marriott's grand ballroom.
Perhaps the grand irony is Lione would have hated the event, dreaded being
fussed over. As many noted, he probably would have hid somewhere in a
corner and found someone to talk sports with.
In a sense, Lione was a simple man. In so being, he had tremendous influence.
Lione was old-school. His teams were disciplined and fundamentally sound.
So were his players.
Lione's teams seldom beat themselves. They rarely played down to the level
of inferior opponents and often overachieved against better ones.
One of the questions most often asked is how Lione would fare in today's
society. Would he be able to get through to the contemporary, me-first
athlete?
The guess here is absolutely. While Lione's methods differed from most
coaches', he knew how to push all the right buttons. The bottom line is
most players want to reach their potential, and Lione was a means to that
end.
No player would ever think of contradicting Lione. It just never happened.
His ways fit better in a bygone era. He was a cardigan sweater in an Italian-suit
society. But the respect his players held for him never wavered, because
they knew he could help them put trophies in the showcase.
When Valentine was the Mets' manager, Lione was a frequent visitor to
Shea Stadium. The fact he had Valentine's ear is a measure of his stature.
Other than shaping young players, that may have been the happiest time
of his life.
In a sense, Lione still stands on the Trinity sidelines. He was particularly
close to Tracy Nichols, the school's athletic director and Lione's long-time
assistant who succeeded him as the Crusaders' baseball coach, and Mike
Walsh, who has helped build a basketball dynasty.
Can you imagine the joy, if he were alive today, Lione would have felt
earlier this month when one of his former players, Bryan Fox, was named
the Crusaders' new football coach. Fox is a Lione prototype: equal doses
of skill and hard work who reached greater heights with Lione's help.
You can bet future Trinity football players will hear Lione's words coming
from Fox's mouth.
Before joining this paper and having the privilege of covering Lione on
a regular basis, my first meeting with him came nearly two decades ago,
on the baseball field that now bears his name.
Following a game with Fairfield, a fight nearly broke out as the teams
shook hands afterward. Lione nearly got cold-cocked trying to break up
the skirmish.
I would run into Lione at Bobby Valentine's Sports Gallery, where Lione
was then the manager. He would smile when he saw me and always bring up
the fight. Then he would start talking sports, and it was quickly apparent
if I listened instead of spoke, I could learn a lot.
It was impossible not to have a good time in Lione's presence. If he wasn't
packing words of wisdom in his holster, he was always armed with a good
story.
Now Lione is gone, but his sister, Roseann, cousin Jerry, Valentine and
a lot of close friends are making sure he is not forgotten.
So while the fine food, wine and conversation were flowing Monday, it
was not difficult to forget what the night was all about. For Mickey was
watching over us, making sure we had a good time.
Dave Ruden can be reached at dave.ruden@scni.com
Friends keep alive
memories of Lione, Rioux
Bob Kennedy, Sports Editor
Courtesy of The Stamford Advocate, January 22, 2003
02003 Southern CT Newspapers, Inc.
Mickey Lione, Jr. and Allyson Rioux are deceased, but due to the efforts of their numerous friends, their accomplishments on and off the field have been memorialized.
Lione was remembered Monday night at the inaugural Bobby Valentine Celebrity Wine and Food Experience which benefited the Mickey Lione, Jr. Scholarship Fund.
Rioux will be inducted on January 31 into the University of Massachusetts Hall of Fame.
The athletic accomplishments of both are impressive.
Lione's name is synonymous with success as both a player and coach. He played on three world championship youth baseball teams and coached two Babe Ruth world championship teams.
In a 34-year coaching career, he won six state titles at Trinity Catholic High School in baseball and hockey and had an overall record of 731-413.
He was also an assistant football coach at Trinity and New Canaan, where he contributed to three state championship teams.
He died in 1999 at age 59.
Rioux was a second-team All-American softball player at UMass in 1982 and a two-time All-New England selection. She had a career .328 average and still ranks among the all-time school leaders in several offensive categories.
Rioux played 10 seasons with the Raybestos Brakettes and won five ASA national titles, was a six-time ASA All-American and MVP of the 1985 National Championship series.
Rioux was also a member of the 1983 U.S. Pan American team, where she batted .549 and was a two-time World Games participant, earning All-World honors in 1986.
An editorial in The Advocate said of Lione: "In a world of cliché' and artifice, Mickey Lione Jr. stood as a welcome contrast. Stamford is a better place because he grew up and made his life here."
The same can be said of Rioux.
Stamford is a better place because of Lione and Rioux and friends are making sure that these two special people aren't forgotten by the next generation. Scholarships have been established to perpetuate their memories and are considered the most prestigious awarded to Stamford student-athletes.
Scholarships are awarded not only for athletic excellence, but to athletes who embody ideals, personal excellence and strengths and make a positive impact on our community as did Lione and Rioux.
Valentine, a close friend of Lione, spearheaded Monday night's Wine and Food Experience. He seized the fundraising concept conceived by Anthony Zezima and Bill Ippolito and took it to the next step and beyond.
A crowd of more than 500 attended the first gala. Included were the likes of baseball Hall of Fame manager Tom Lasorda, New York Mets pitchers Al Leiter and Steve Trachsel, noted artist LeRoy Neiman, designer Joseph Aboud and many others.
They, and many other celebrities, were there because Bobby Valentine asked them to attend. He asked them because like many others, he's personally committed to raising money for the Mickey Lione Jr. Scholarship Fund.
Valentine was omnipresent. He cajoled for more money as the auctioneer for vacation trips and sports memorabilia, sold tickets for the event and for a car raffle, shook hands and signed autographs.
Thousands of dollars were raised for the Mickey Lione Scholarship Fund to match thousands raised by Valentine and Friends at an annual summer golf tournament the past two years.
Six Lione scholarship winners are currently in college, while three are juniors in high school. Six more scholarships will be presented this year.
At the time of her death, a memorial fund was created in Stamford to honor Rioux. More than $200,000 has been raised since its inception, which has gone toward scholarships to 15 graduating female athletes and to support Stamford individuals and families in need.
Lione and Rioux will be remembered both for their athletic excellence and their work in our community, and because the efforts of their friends, others will be directed in the same direction.
Lione foundation
gives a big assist to youth football
Bob Kennedy, Sports Editor
Courtesy of The Stamford Advocate, November 5, 2003
02003 Southern CT Newspapers, Inc.
The late Mickey Lione, Jr. is remembered by many as a baseball and hockey coach who won 731 games and six state championships at Trinity Catholic High School.
It is often overlooked that Lione, who died in 1999 at the age of 59, was also a football coach. As an assistant at both Trinity Catholic and New Canaan, he was an integral part of three state championship teams.
Through the efforts of many of his friends, Mickey Lione will now be remembered by a new generation of football players.
"Following his death, a group of friends - spearheaded by Bobby Valentine - established the Mickey Lione Jr. Foundation. Its mission is to support, encourage and motivate Stamford's students into becoming outstanding scholars, citizens and athletes and to become leaders and role models in the community.
The Mickey Lione Jr. Scholarship for Youth Excellence was established, and since its inception in 2001, 15 scholarships have been presented to Stamford students.
Through the efforts of many, the Lione Fund has raised thousands of dollars at celebrity golf outings and its Celebrity Wine and Food Experience.
In addition to awarding scholarships, the foundation wanted to do more.
"We formed the foundation to enrich the lives of children in our community," Valentine said.
It recently did enrich the lives of children in the community. The foundation donated $100,000 - $10,000 a year for 10 years - to be used for scholarships for the Stamford Youth Foundation's Middle School Football program. The division will now be known as the Mickey Lione Jr. Division.
"We wanted children in town who wanted to play (football) but couldn't afford the fees to be able to play," Valentine said. "We felt we could offer scholarships to 100 players or so a year so everyone who wanted to play had the opportunity."
"We also wanted to make this age group aware of the Mickey Lione Fund because scholarships are available to 10th graders. The younger they have an awareness of the Lione Fund, the more chance of them applying and being granted scholarships."
"The partnership with the Lione Foundation is a natural partnership and this will help thousand of children for years to come," said Marc Lyons, the founder of the Stamford Youth Foundation. "It's a partnership that truly benefits the city of Stamford and its children."
"There couldn't be more of a tribute to what Mickey stood for. He was my friend but, more important, he was a friend of children throughout Stamford." Lyons added. "What a great tribute for his name to be used to help children for years and years to come."
Lione lived up
to his father's legend
Mike Chiappetta Staff Writer
Courtesy of The Stamford Advocate, Feb. 7, 1999
02003 Southern CT Newspapers, Inc.
He left behind a sister, Roseann, a legion of friends, and hundreds of players who under his tutelage, made Lione one of the winningest coaches in city history.
But his record -731 combined wins in hockey and baseball-is not what made Lione a winner. That would be his years of service to youth. Coaching is what Lione did, just about as well as anyone who has ever taken up the noble profession. It's a selfless act, and anyone who knew Mickey wouldn't hesitate to use that word to describe him.
He molded hundreds of young men who passed through the doors of 926 Newfield Avenue, instilled in them the qualities to succeed, made them winners like their coach.
But then again, winning is all Mickey Lione ever knew. He was a winner from the beginning, having played on the 1951 Little League World Championship team, and to the end, coaching the 1997-1998 Trinity ice hockey team to the Division I state championship.
He was also one of the friendliest and most polite people around, a true gentlemen in a world that seems to lose them by the day. His smile was disarming and his demeanor calm. He was downright mellow.
His loss is the latest blow to Trinity Catholic High School, which is still grieving over the passing of longtime softball coach Mary Kay Smith, who died at the beginning of the 1998-1999 school year.
The two were the foundation of the school's athletic programs. Smith taught and coached at the school for 37 years while Lione checked in with 28 years of service.
The thing about it is if you knew Lione, you understand what a loss this is. But for those who didn't it's difficult to put in words. He wasn't solely a coach. To his players he was a friend, a mentor, a father-figure.
"He always made you feel special", said Steve Weiss, a distant relative of Lione's as well as former basketball coach at then Stamford Catholic and later at UConn -Stamford. "He always took the time out to talk to you and make you feel like you mattered."
Lione was like that with everyone no matter who you were.
He crossed paths with another Stamford legend, Bobby Valentine, and the two shared a 30 year friendship. Lione was a confidant for Valentine, and basically had free reign at Shea Stadium where it seemed every one of the ushers knew Mickey by first name.
In Valentine's office he had framed words of wisdom given to him by Lione: "It's not the critic who counts…If he fails at least fail while daring greatly so that he'll never be with these cold and timid souls who never know either victory or defeat."
These very words could well be applied to one of Lione's finest hours as a coach, during Trinity's 3-1 state championship game win over New Canaan last year at the New Haven Coliseum.
In what ranks as one of the biggest upsets in recent scholastic history, the Crusaders, who had lost three games by a combined 17-1 score to the Rams previously, pulled off a stunning win, piloted by Lione.
Several players that day mentioned how the game was more a mental battle than a physical one. Dare to be great, Lione had.
He told them, just like he told Valentine, and they followed their leader.
"He was just one of those coaches who knew how to get the best out of you", said Andy DeBrisco, an assistant baseball coach at Westhill who was coached by Lione in Babe Ruth baseball. "And he never lost that."
Lione was such a well-respected man that newspapers like The New Haven Register and The Hartford Courant ran stories about his passing despite their distance from Stamford. Friends from all over the country flew in to pay their respects.
My last great memory of him was the hockey team's celebration dinner last year. Although he was very personable one on one, Mickey was not fond of talking before big crowds and wasn't' looking forward to his speech, even though there was nothing but friendly faces before him.
The time came when he went up to the podium to say a few words about his team. He shifted nervously as he talked, but he thanked just about everyone in the room for something or other, from his assistant coaches to his scorekeepers. The man who didn't like crowds had no problem giving out thanks in bunches.
That was the type of man he was. Selfless, sharing, simply indescribable.
The plaque that honors his father, Michael, Sr., also known as "Mickey" in Lione Park on Stamford's west side, reads in part" fiery enthusiasm for victory with equal dedication to honor." Those words, written 40 years ago, could just as easily have been written to describe his son, Mickey Jr. The two will forever stand side-by-side, leaders of men and legends of sport, each a Stamford original.
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