And he has done it consistently everywhere he has been.

He has made soccer players on the opposition look silly, regardless of their pedigree,

regardless of how famous they are, regardless of the league.

Nothing resonates and cuts through more and is more lasting than doing it for your country

and doing it in a tournament.

He is an elite player in Citiya.

He is, I think, arguably the best player for A.C. Milan.

I'm ai Lalas and welcome the State of the Union podcast. We look at the beautiful game on and off the fields with the lens of red, white, and blue colored glasses. This show will be talking politic, dominating, ballon de ore, more messy, Mr.

Freeze, cities not hosting

the World Cup, Berlusconi,

the Who, galloping Holland,

USL Pro Rel,

adjusting for Jedi, and so

much more. But first joining me, as always my friend, my

colleague, my guiding light, David

Mossie, a soccer savant, and a Foxcer researcher and writer extraordinaire. Mossie, how you doing on this? What are we looking at here? September 22nd in the year 2025. I'm doing well, a little bit tired. I got back from Seattle very late last night. That's right. You mentioned that you were up there to visit your brother in the great city of Seattle. Must be beautiful this time a year. Did you have a good time? It was great. So we can start out with that and then I'll circle back to the Who concert. The visit was terrific. It's my third time going to Seattle to see him. He's lived there for three years now and each time I've enjoyed it. Great City, Seattle. Now, in the previous two visits,

I had already done most of the must-do things. The big one in this visit was I finally saw Mount

Reneer. We drove down there and spent a day in Mount Reneer Park. Incredible scenery. Got so

many cool pictures. So wonderful time. Beautiful area of the country, especially when it's nice and when it's not raining, which

isn't often, but wonderful times. All right, so you went to Mount Rainier, but you got to finish

up this story. You teased us last week that you were going to see The Who. Yes. So Wednesday

evening, I went to the Who concert at the Hollywood Bowl, which is an incredible venue.

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