Group E Preview: Germany, Curaçao, Ivory Coast, Ecuador
Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast
FOX Sports
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 1:02.3 | Hello, Sunshine. I'm Alexei Lalas, and welcome to the State of the Union show, |
| 1:05.9 | presented by Zillow. Someday starts today. This is where we look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red, white, and blue-colored glasses. |
| 1:08.8 | Today, we're featuring Group E in our World Cup preview series. But first, joining me as all as my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, David Mossy, a soccer savant, and a Fox Soccer researcher and writer, extraordinary. All right, Mossie, let's light this candle on Group E. Group E includes the proud Germans, four-time winners, but they've crashed out in the group stage |
| 1:28.6 | of the last two World Cup, so they're looking to get their mojo back on this stage. |
| 1:33.2 | You've also got Ecuador, who went out in the group stage of the last World Cup, but a lot |
| 1:37.5 | of people think they could be frisky this time around. |
| 1:39.6 | They advanced from a group in 2006 that included host Germany. |
| 1:43.5 | You've got Ivory Coast back at the World Cup for the first time since 2014. |
| 1:47.8 | Dada Dropa not walking through that door, but there's still plenty of talent there. |
| 1:51.9 | And then Curacao, debutants, the smallest nation ever to qualify to a FIFA World Cup. |
| 1:58.6 | Okay. |
| 1:59.3 | Let's go through and start with Germany. How about that? |
| 2:03.1 | Germany, like your Brazil, are coming in with low expectations. |
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