Hello, Sunshine, I'm Alexi Laus, 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 blue colored glasses.

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

savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary!

Mossy, before we have a discussion here, I just want to fix something.

And I'm so sorry that I forgot to do this a couple years ago, so I'm going to do it now.

I want to congratulate our friends

to the Great White North on winning the gold medal in the Olympics. Wonderful

wonderful achievement I can't believe I let that go and congratulations to that.

With that let's get back into the World Cup here, Maassee where should we start?

Well why don't we start with Canada's capitulation because that

congratulations of yours felt a tad snarky.

A tad?

Yes.

Listen, from the moment that I landed here in Australia,

all I heard was, you know, these are the gold medal winning champions here.

This is Canada.

They're coming off success at the Olympics.

They're going to parlay it into a World Cup.

And yet, as we sit here today today and at the moment it is look almost 11 o'clock here at night

Canada is going home they are out of the world cup They could not even secure a point against hosts Australia

and this I think there will be there this will be looked at as undoubtedly a failure.

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