Hello Sunshah I'm Alexi Lollison welcome to a very special edition of the State of the Union

podcast my friend David Mossy is here with me and we are pleased to welcome and welcome

back to the State of the Union podcast.

Our friend, my classmate, and I'll talk about that in a little bit, and let's be honest, one of the

great American soccer players in history who recently retired and she's off on new adventures

And we'll talk about that a little bit with the great

Carly Lloyd. Carly welcome to the State of the Union podcast.

I said welcome back, so you're always welcome here.

Okay, let's get right into it.

We are talking to you about a week after the historic announcement of the settlement

between the United States Soccer Federation and the US women, a group of US women,

I think it's around 66 players ultimately 22 million dollars going to the

players another 2 million dollars going to the players to be available post career

for work or charity work that they are doing up to $50,000 that they can access.

This is about one third of what this group of players that you were among had sought.

So happy days in a certain way are here again.

Congratulations, maybe, are in order, but my big question to you is,

after all the time and the effort and the resource and the money and the

source, source, and yes, I guess the damage along the way. When you wake up this morning and you see where this situation is,

by the way, I should say it is contingent on the US women's national team signing a

CBA and that is a big contingency but I think they wouldn't have announced this if

they weren't for the long but when you wake up this morning was it worth it?

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