2026 FIFA World Cup Venue Reactions: Who’s Going to Host the Final?

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

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🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Alexi Lalas and David Mosse Kick off the podcast with a look at the USMNT game vs. El Salvador and take a deep dive of where this leaves the national team ahead of Qatar (5:00). Then we look at how Costa Rica qualified to the 2022 World Cup and why we’re happy to see another CONCACAF team in the tournament (25:40). Later we breakdown England’s historic loss against Hungary and the rest of the action in the UEFA Nations League (29:00). We also covered Mane’s move to Bayern, Pogba’s return to Juve, and the rest of the transfers in Europe (35:40). The guys answered your questions about 2026 World Cup venues, MLS’s Apple TV deal, and if the 1994 USA denim jerseys are ever coming back in #AskAlexi (42:56). Finally Alexi ends the show with his One for the Road about his travels to Zurich Switzerland and the FIFA Next 90 program (1:17:00). What We’ve Been Watching: Mosse’s Picks: Severance, Peaky Blinders, The Offer, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, The French Connection, The Godfather Alexi’s Picks: Bad Words, This is Where I Leave You Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, Sunshine. I'm Alexi Lallis and welcome to the State of the Union podcast.
0:04.1	We look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red white and blue-colored glasses.
0:07.6	This week we'll be talking U.S. men's national team and FIFA and Apple and MLS MLS and Nations League and Mane and
0:14.5	Paugba and bad words and 2026 host cities and Denham jerseys and so much more
0:20.0	but first joining me as always my friend my colleague my guiding light David Mossy a soccer
0:24.7	savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary
0:27.8	Mossy how are you doing on this Monday June 20th in the year 2022.
0:35.0	I am doing well now, is it still June 20th where you are?
0:38.0	It still is June 20th.
0:40.0	You can hear, and if you're watching, you can see that we are again remote for this week's pod
0:46.2	Could not be helped I come to you from the lovely city of Zurich Switzerland.
0:51.3	I am here for the week taking classes and studying and continuing on this business
0:59.2	program that I am that I mentioned a few podcasts back that FIFA is running called the next 90 and it's a group of I don't know about
1:07.8	well 35 in the total group probably about 25 are actually here on site.
1:14.4	It runs for a year, and this was one of the on site
1:17.9	requirements of two that are going to happen.
1:20.8	The next one's going to happen probably in January.
1:24.0	There were going to do it at the World Cup.
1:25.4	That's probably not going to happen.
1:26.4	But anyway, I come to you from Zurich Switzerland, beautiful Zurich Switzerland,
1:30.6	expensive Zurich Switzerland, but we're having a good time and I'm going to talk more about it in my one for the road there.
1:38.5	But it's fun. I am in my hotel room, I'm not in a theater or anything like that and you know just because
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