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. The show is presented by State Farm.

Joining me as always my friend, my colleague,

my guiding light, David Mossy, a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer

extraordinary!

All right, Mossy, and then there were four.

We are down to the final four.

We just finished the last round of quarter-final games,

and we find ourselves sitting here in the wonderful country of Australia in the beautiful city of Sydney and guess what the host nation has moved on.

Before we get into a little bit more about the game,

allow me just a second here, will you,

to give you my owed to Courtney Vine.

And if you're just waking up

and you didn't see Australia one in penalty kicks, a historic

penalty kick session, if you will.

And ultimately, it came down to a beautiful redhead.

Although that's redundant.

It came down to a redhead, an Australian redhead.

Long live the mutant gene.

If you want something done and you want something done right people, get a red head to do it.

And she stepped up with all of that pressure, with all of that attention, and made every

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