Ballsy, Gutsy, Golden: What U.S. Hockey Just Taught U.S. Soccer

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

FOX Sports

Sports, News, Sports News, Soccer

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Alexi Lalas and David Mosse are back with a new episode of State of the Union! The pair discuss both Folarin Balogun and Ricardo Pepi finding the back of the net this weekend for Monaco and PSV, Tyler Adams making his long-awaited return for Bournemouth, and the struggles continuing for Juventus and AC Milan. They then come back stateside where MLS began its 31st season with a bang, a huge meeting between LAFC and Inter Miami at the LA Coliseum in front over 75K fans that the Black and Gold ran away with 3-0. Michael Bradley’s tenure as NYRB manager got off to a strong start, while Matt Turner’s New England Revolution career started with a 4-1 loss to Nashville. In #AskAlexi, the question is posed whether or not the USA will produce multiple world class soccer players and in One for the Road, Alexi wonders what US Soccer can learn from the gold medal winning US hockey teams. Intro (0:00)U.S. Abroad: Balogun & Pepi score, Adams is BACK (4:05)MLS Recap: Michael Bradley wins debut, Javier Aguirre slights MLS, Messi is mad (15:08)#AskAlexi: When will U.S. Men's soccer producer worldwide stars? (32:07)One For The Road: U.S. Hockey is Golden: What can USMNT learn? (39:48) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I hope that the United States Men's National Team
0:04.0	and the United States Women's National Team
0:07.0	players are watching and take note.
0:12.0	I hope that the message and what is learned
0:18.0	is that genuine love and respect and appreciation for your country,
0:26.6	or by the way, lack of it, in these public and very public moments,
0:33.6	I think that it will ultimately manifest on the field.
0:44.2	Celebrating your country is beautiful and it is fun.
0:48.6	Oh, and by the way, it's also very smart. I'm Alexi Lalas and welcome to the State of the Union podcast, where we look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red, white and blue colored glasses.
1:15.8	This show will be talking, oh yeah, the gold medal and those gold medal lessons.
1:21.0	Balagan's staying hot.
1:22.3	Welcome back, Peppy and Adams.
1:24.6	Michael Bradley's debut outside of the field, the other state of the union,
1:29.8	seven kingdoms, Mad, Messy, Titanic, US goalkeeping, and so much more.
1:35.1	But first joining as always my friend, my colleague, my guiding lights, David Mossy, a soccer
1:39.0	savant and a Fox Soccer researcher and writer extraordinaire.
1:42.6	Mossie, how you doing on this Monday, February 23rd in the year, 2026?
1:48.0	I'm doing well.
1:49.0	I'm back here in LA.
1:50.0	I know you're in DC for the State of the Union.
1:52.0	More on that later in the show.
1:54.0	I am sad that the Winter Olympics are over, but they went out with a bang on Sunday.
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