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.

Joining me today, as always, is my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, David Mossy, a soccer

savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary.

Mossy, we are coming to you on this Monday when you are listening to it, but

I just want to let you know that this is going to be a kind of unique type of Monday

We are going to have an interview with the great Jesus Ferreira on this show and then while you normally get the show on Thursday we are traveling my friend

aren't we we are we are off to where we going to Kansas City for US women's national team

action now so what will end up happening is the Thursday show

will probably be a little bit late in terms of dropping into your feed,

but we'll definitely get one we're gonna record on on the ground

in Kansas City.

Did I explain that correctly?

Yeah, and the benefit is we're

going to be able to cover the last hours

of the transfer window, which slammed shut on first.

Perfect, perfect.

And you know, it's, if past years or any indication stuff happens people get

desperate and they do desperate things which makes for great great contact

all right as I mentioned we going to interview Jesus Ferreira.

You may have listened to our previous show where we interviewed Brandon Vaskas, and this is our

trip through the potential number nines, I guess, when it comes to the US men's

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