Let's be honest, the real name of this team is David Beckham's inter-Myan.

David Beckham understands this better than anyone. He is the face of the team, and rightly so.

But Beckham's brand is not accustomed to being associated with products that fail,

products of poor quality, or products without appeal. Yes, it's still a work in progress,

but that progress must become apparent and soon.

Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Laus. that progress must become apparent and soon.

Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis 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.

As you heard, we'll be talking about David Beckham's

inter-myammy.

In our Mosse makes the case segment,

Mosse is going to talk about the Argentine love triangle.

In our Ask Alexi segment, we're talking about the best soccer cities in the US in our back three segment we're talking about Corona and Clop and so much more. But first joining me as always my friend, my colleague my guiding light David David Mossy, a soccer researcher and writer

extraordinary.

Mossy, how are you on this Monday morning?

I am very good.

Very good.

That was a happy medium in the last two weeks.

In terms of your energy level.

We talked about that last week where you were called out

by our friend Keith Kostigan for a lack of energy,

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