Hello Sunshine I'm Alexi Wallace and welcome to 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.

This episode will be talking Messy's American introduction.

Let's see, Sydney Life Top Gun Maverick,

kissing off the Gold Cup,

the U.S. Women's National Team World Cup,

some preview stuff that we're doing.

Rinaldo's Diss and our friend Zach from Australia.

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

my guiding light, David Mossier soccer savant

and a Fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary.

I'll see how you doing on this July 18th,

2023 from Sydney, Australia, my man.

Not a bad place to spend the next few weeks. I love it.

I've already fallen in love with this place.

Been here a couple days.

Then a lot of walking around.

Already went to the opera house, the botanical garden.

I plan to walk across the bridge. Our studio location is

phenomenal so I am loving this. It's going to be a terrific summer.

Well you can you can see this incredible studio and this incredible backdrop that we have and told you we're going to talk

about a little bit the goal cup later on in the show but we just kind of finished up the goal cup and

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