A season and a quarter for an Italian soccer team (6)

I believe the answer is:

winter

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'a season' is the definition.
(winter is a season)

'a quarter for an italian soccer team' is the wordplay.
'a quarter' becomes 'w'.
'for' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'an italian soccer team' becomes 'inter' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'w'+'inter'='WINTER'

'and' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for winter that I've seen before include "Cold season" , "Coldest season" , "'If . . . . . . comes, can spring be far behind?'" , "Cold period" , "period of freeze?" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.

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