I will say this it doesn't matter who you hire you need to understand what the situation is that you're coming into

and I hope that Pochetino understands the realities the good the bad the ugly that exists in terms of the team that he's taking over, in terms of the Federation,

in terms of American soccer, all of those different things.

I don't need him figuring that out later on. And So, 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 blohered,

red white and blue colored glasses.

I'm just, I'm just all angst up and crazy right now.

Anyway this is an emergency live pod as we have breaking news in that all

indications and reports are pointing to the new US men's national team coach being 52 year old

Argentine Mauricio Pochetino former coach of Chelsea PSG Spurs Southampton

Espagno although he has never coached internationally.

Joining me as always, my friend, my colleague, my guiding light,

David Mossy, a soccer savant, and a fox soccer researcher and writer

extraordinary, and our good friend fox soccer analyst

Signior Stu Holden stepping away from his Mexico vacation

to give us his reaction.

Welcome, gentlemen.

Let's get right into it, Stu.

You got your shades on.

It's nice of you to at least put a shirt on I don't know if you have

pants on I hope you could drag yourself away from the tequila long enough to let us

know all right pochetino thoughts uh... moor vie bien seigneur moo moo moo moo moo mr Very good. First of all, thank you for having me. Also, not a big thank you to Pochitino, by the way, announcing this and all this happening while I'm on vacation. But you know the things we do right likes the sacrifices we make

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