Hello Sunshine I'm Alexei Allison, welcome the State of the Union Podcast.

We look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red white and blue-colored glasses.

And you know what?

We thought, let's give you some bonus content. Let's give you some bonus content.

Let's give you a bonus show.

And so we are recording this 29 days out

from the Women's World Cup, the start

of the Women's World Cup.

The Women's World Cup roster, the US roster, just dropped and we said,

let's get somebody on the show who knows what they're talking about even more

so than we do. And there's not many of them out there, but there is Jen Cooper, the great Jen Cooper. And

Mossy, this was a fascinating conversation, she's a wealth of knowledge, and with the roster drop and with this World Cup basically around the corner.

I thought it was appropriate to bring someone on like that to talk about it.

I agree. Roster drop are always fun, especially for a World Cup, especially when it's the two-time defending champions.

So we had certainly lots to talk about with this one.

We will have a regular, I guess we could call it, State of the Union Pod, in your feed coming 24 hours from now, so look for that but until then sit back and enjoy

the dulcet sounds of Miss Jen Cooper talking about the US Women's National Team roster.

We got things to get to because as I said we are 29 days away from the World Cup.

Vlat Kondonowski, the head coach of the U.S. Women's National Team, announced today the players that

will be representing what I feel is the greatest country in the world.

And I want to remind everybody why this is important why this is

exciting why you should tune in the US women's national thing we know they're a

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