If Emma Hayes had been the coach in what's happened over the last years with this team,

how do you think things would have been different? She's a no-B-S person. I think that's why I get along with her so well. Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lallis 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 show will be talking well with the great

Carly Lloyd. Yeah, she's back. We'll also be talking.

MLS's CCC beat down US men's national team starting 11

Argentine submarines messy power fresh eggs and so much more

but first joining me as always my friend my colleague my guiding light

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

extraordinary!

Mossy, how you doing on this Wednesday, March 13th in the year 2024.

I'm doing well, still buzzing from an eventful night last night working here covering at the Kunkakaf Champions

Triple header baby we were back edits so we had to get the rust off and get back on air and it was a fun

trouble header we'll talk more about the games later on but it was fun to get back

get the gang back together did you have a good time I did yeah we had a

celebrity visitor Kila stopped by she wanted to see us in action do you think she was impressed

Impressed I'm not sure I would use that word

The the controlled chaos of it she probably maybe a little bit impressed I asked

her throughout the night if she if she was seeing anything interesting or learning

anything and she humored me. We brought her up to the set and all that so she

saw what was happening in front of the camera but more importantly what was happening

behind the camera and I guess the differences between you know the linear side and the digital side and

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