Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis 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 week we'll have our round up of

what's happening over in Europe and obviously how it pertains to the American players.

American players playing all over the place. We got desk talk and Rayna and Richards and all sorts of stuff going on there.

The mighty falling over there in the EPL,

the transfer window shutting as we speak.

Champions League group stage now,

we understand and know exactly what that's going to look like so we'll take a look at that.

Domestic versus European US men's national team starting 11s, that type of conversation and that type of debate.

German reunification mysteries, and so much more.

But first joining me as always my friend, my colleague, and my guiding light, David Mossy, a soccer

sauerkavant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary.

Mossy, how are you on this Monday, October 5th in the year 2020?

I am doing very well. Did you know by the way my father told me this that

our podcast last week clocked in at an hour and 40 minutes?

I did not know when we recorded it.

You know, look, all right, so thank you for anybody that did listen

for the entire thing. Anytime you listen to the entire thing were thankful, but that it was an hour and 45 minutes. I was not aware of that until a friend of mine texted me and I couldn't tell from his text whether he was it was a good thing or a bad thing that we did.

There might be too much of a good thing when it comes to the State of the Union, Massey.

So we're gonna we're gonna try to be more efficient this week.

When did Alex Dow turn into Martin Scorsese?

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