Hello Sunshine! Hello,

Sunshion I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of Union Podcasts.

So we look at the beautiful game on and off the field from the lens of red, white,

and blue color glasses.

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

David Massey, a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher, and writer, extraordinary,

we come to you as we have been for now, gosh over a week here,

down in the harbor here in Sydney

from the Women's World Cup.

And we come to you to review what has just happened

the United States versus Netherlands

in their second game of this World Cup here in group stage 1-1.

It finishes, Mossy. Initial thoughts.

A lot to unpack with this game. All I'm going to say is in the lead up to this World Cup,

every guest we had, I asked him about Vlad Kondinovsky and how confident they felt that he was the right coach to lead the US to another World Cup title.

And everybody told me no concerns

Vlatco is the right guy he's not an issue but I am starting to have some doubts I already

had some doubts going into this tournament and today increased those doubts because he did some strange stuff.

All right, well let's start with the first half and it was a tale of two halves for the U.S.

First half, it was awful.

I thought that the Netherlands was better from a physical perspective. I thought that the Netherlands was better from a physical perspective.

I thought that the Netherlands came on and punched the United States in the face.

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