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Physician of Italian football team is into books (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

internist

'physician' is the definition.
(internist is a kind of physician)

'italian football team is into books' is the wordplay.
'italian football team' becomes 'inter' (nickname for Inter Milan).
'into' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'books' becomes 'nt' (New Testament).
'is' inserted into 'nt' is 'nist'.
'inter'+'nist'='INTERNIST'

'of' is the link.

(Another definition for internist that I've seen is " specialist in the US".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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