Folarin Balogun commits to USMNT & Weston McKennie to Brighton? | SOTU

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

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Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Alexi Lalas and David Mosse react to the BIG Folarin Balogun news as they got you covered with all the soccer content that you need! To start the show, the duo react to Balogun committing to USMNT and debate whether he is USMNT's best current strike. They also analyze whether Gregg Berhalter deserves credit in the recruitment process. Continuing with the American theme, Lalas and Mosse react to the news of Brighton being interested in Weston McKennie and debate whether it'd be a good fit for McKennie. Moving over to Europe, they recap the Champions League matches between Manchester City vs. Real Madrid & Inter Milan vs. A.C. Milan while also looking ahead to the top weekend games such as Manchester City vs. Chelsea. The duo also make sure to preview the top MLS games this weekend such as Philadelphia Union vs. New England Revolution. To wrap up the show, Lalas and Mosse talk MLS expansion and VAR! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, Sunshire. I'm Alexi Lallis and welcome to the State of the Union
0:05.2	podcast. We look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of
0:08.3	red white and blue colored glasses. This episode we'll be talking Balagon cometh, the 2026 World Cup logo,
0:16.4	the future of VAR, the US Men's National Team current Best 11,
0:21.2	USL Super League is arriving, singing in the rain, and much, much more.
0:26.2	But first joining me, as always, my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, David Mossy, a soccer
0:30.2	savant and a Fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary.
0:36.0	Massey, how you doing on this Thursday, May 18th, bright and early in the morning here in Los Angeles,
0:42.0	and again, for those that are just listening
0:44.7	Massey is coming to us from the East Coast a few more days with his family and
0:49.2	then he will be back to us so he is on the road.
0:51.4	Hey my man and how you doing?
0:52.4	Doing well the trip is effectively to us so he is on the road. Hey my man, how you doing?
0:53.0	Doing well, the trip is effectively over.
0:55.0	I am going to tape this pod, grab some lunch, and then head to the airport.
0:59.0	I will be flying back to Los Angeles later today.
1:02.0	Did you do anything interesting? I know you wanted to see a show. Did you do anything interesting?
1:02.9	I know you wanted to see a show.
1:04.4	Did that end up happening?
1:06.2	It did.
1:06.7	Tuesday night, we finally went to this Broadway show
1:08.9	that I've been mentioning, Leopoldtstadt.
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