dare I say that there is a maturity when it comes to the L-tree Federation and that they are looking at this as the next two years of development, but you know, it's easy to say that now.

When the results, when the results get bad,

and there is history when it comes to Mexico

getting their ass kicked in Copa Americas. Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis 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 color glasses. This show, well, we'll be talking a special edition state of the union where we look at the

Copa America and euros coming this summer and we preview what's going to happen.

In particular, maybe some dark horses out there

for those of you that like to bet or even if you don't like to bet. But first

joining me as always my friend my colleague my guiding light.

David Massey, a soccer savant and a fox soccer research and writer extraordinary.

Mossy, how are you doing today as we come to you?

I am coming to you from New York. You are back there in Los Angeles. How you doing my friend?

I'm doing well. Another summer of soccer approach I'm excited to talk about it.

Yes, we have these two major tournaments that we will be doing simultaneously when it comes over there, Fox.

And look, we're going to get knee deep into the teams and the groups as we get closer and closer.

And this is just kind of a a primer for what to what to expect but

from morning until night and let's be honest well into the night you will have so much

soccer at your disposal you will have so much soccer at your disposal. You will have so many teams that you know,

many teams that you don't, players that you know, players that you don't.

When it comes to the US, obviously a home team playing in Copa America and all sorts of stars on both sides of the Atlantic so it is it is looking scrumptious so far.

Where would you like to start when it comes to these two tournaments,

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