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Publicity around soccer team coming next month (7)

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I believe the answer is:

proximo

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'next month' is the definition.
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'publicity around soccer team' is the wordplay.
'publicity' becomes 'promo' (short for promotion).
'around' is an insertion indicator.
'soccer team' becomes 'XI' (a football team, from Roman numerals for 11).
'promo' placed around 'xi' is 'PROXIMO'.

'coming' is the link.
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(Another definition for proximo that I've seen is " Of next month".)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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