Hello everyone. Thank you so much for joining us on this fine Thursday for a fresh edition of Football America's Alexis Yunus back with Hercules Gomez and Shaka Hisl, who dressed up like he's going to prom.

We love it.

But you know what? I think Shaka dressed up because he knew that we had some VIPs on the show today.

Yes, we have an award-winning actor, possibly now turned professional footballer, joining us on the show.

Christo Fernandez will be live with us to speak about what's next after being Danny Rojas

in Ted Lasso.

So you definitely want to tune into that as well.

But first, we're going to start off with a bit of concerning news as it relates to a key

U.S. men's national team player.

Yes, Chris Richards now has apparently torn two ligaments in his ankle.

He did it whilst Crystal Palace were going up against Brettfoot in this game at the weekend.

It was on Sunday and now this has some fresh injury concerns for the USA and also puts his participation

in the UEFA Conference League final in doubt.

Well, Oliver Glasner, the Crystal Palace manager, had this to say. Chris will miss the

Arsenal game and it's now 50-50 for him, for us if he can play the final. He tore, I think,

two ligaments in his ankle. Fortunately, we have, I think, four ligaments or something, so it's stable,

but it's quite swollen, and now we will have to deal with the swelling. And of course,

he needs to get back on the pitch to be available, and it will be really a race against time.

A race against time, indeed, for Oliver Glasna and Crystal Palace, considering they are playing

for some European glory, but it is a bigger race against time, considering we're three weeks

away now from the FIFA World Cup on home soil for Chris Richards.

Herc, how concerning is this?

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