Hello, Sunshine. I'm Alexi Lolles 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.

This is a special live pod coming to you post USA versus Slovenia. We can certainly

talk about the game that just happened, the good bad and the ugly. And you can talk about anything you want on this. It is wide open, but obviously with a

U.S. men's national team game happening and the first one of 2024, we said, hey, let's

to get together and talk it out but it can be about soccer or life

or anything in between as I mentioned I have my friend my colleague my guiding light

David Mossy a soccer savant and a Fox soccer researcher and writer,

extraordinary. With me here today, Mossy, we as we said are coming off of this

game. The first game of the year and a first game and the only game relative to the January camp often I don't know if it's

affectionately referred to as a matter of fact I would look at it in much more of a negative type of way as camp cupcake relative to the

inexperience and the use of the team and that was certainly on display here with plenty of players getting their first caps

and plenty of players that looking forward probably much more eligible and viable from a Olympic standpoint this summer than a Cop America.

Who knows what happens in 2026, but it's still a nice little peak into what's coming

down the pike and possibly some players that could make a name for themselves

over the over the next few years from a result standpoint not good I've said time and time again that I'm a part of me has died in

that I am about results. And maybe the romantic part of me has died, see? But

figure out a way to get it done even with the difficulty of a new

team coming together it should be said also this so young inexperienced and not

their quote unquote first team.

So they should have no excuses.

I thought the first half was worse than the second half and that often happens when you grow

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