David Ochoa’s Path to El Tri: Why the Former USMNT Prospect Switched to Mexico (interview)

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

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🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Real Salt Lake’s David Ochoa sits down with Alexi Lalas and David Mosse to breakdown his team’s incredible playoff run last season and what MLS fans can expect from RSL this year. Later, Ochoa opens up about his time with the USMNT and why he ultimately switched to the Mexican national team. Finally, We made picks for who will win the big World Cup Qualifying game between the USMNT and Mexico on Thursday and looked at who’s the GOAT goalkeeper for Mexico. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello Sunshine and welcome to a special edition of the State of the Union
0:04.4	podcast we have ourselves another interview with another interesting
0:09.3	uh... guest the great David Ochoa from Rial Salt Lake, the starting goalkeeper and for my money
0:16.8	one of the stars of the league in the way that he plays in goal but also his incredible personality.
0:24.6	He has been a U.S. youth national teamer.
0:27.7	He has played with the United States Olympic qualifying team and then he made his one-time switch to represent Mexico.
0:35.4	We're going to talk with him about that.
0:36.8	So welcome into the State of the Union, David, how are you?
0:39.8	Thank you, I'm good.
0:40.8	How are you?
0:41.8	Well, you look glorious. For people that are listening, you can'm good. How are you? Well you look glorious for people that are listening you can't see it but there is this incredibly
0:46.2	Statuous and gigantic video board that we have him up there like this Rushmore rush more effect your hair looks great your
0:53.4	facial hair looks so wonderful now you have been injured at the beginning of this
0:57.5	season first and foremost how is your body and when can we expect to see you back
1:01.3	on the soccer field yeah no my body's getting one day better.
1:05.0	I'm feeling stronger every day.
1:08.0	And hopefully I can start training in a week or two and then get back on the pitch whenever
1:16.0	Pablo thinks it's right.
1:17.9	So it's getting close.
1:19.9	All right, what do you attribute the fast start and the successful start of your
1:23.8	RSL team this year?
1:25.7	It's wonderful to see, obviously full-time coach now Pablo Mastriani and everything that's
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