Badoya's Act was simple. It was human. Pro athletes are parents, neighbors, and members of your community.

They pay taxes, they vote, and they share the desire to live in a country where they, their family, and their fellow citizens are protected and safe.

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 Alejandro Bedoya's statement game.

Our Mossy makes the case segment.

Mossy is going to be talking Pep versus Clop.

Our Ask Alexi segment, we're going to talk some potential US women's national team coaches

and in our back three.

We'll be talking the departure of Rooney,

but so much more.

But first, joining me, as always, my friend, my colleague,

my guiding light, David Mossy a soccer savant and a fox soccer

researcher and writer extraordinary mossy how are you this week I am good and

Alexi we are one step closer to being whole.

Louise Aguilar is joining us in the studio today.

We're like a depleted team that's starting to get some injured bodies back.

Wow.

I am once again coming to you from the road. If you follow me on

Twitter you will see that I am nestled below a glorious golden American eagle

who is looking down on me in judgment and I'm going to use his power to give you this podcast today.

I'm on the East Coast.

I was in DC, our nation's capital this weekend for

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