Is Weston McKennie the Greatest American Midfielder of All-Time and More

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

FOX Sports

Sports, News, Sports News, Soccer

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Alexi Lalas and David Mosse are back with a new episode of State of the Union! Weston McKennie’s strong run of form for Juventus has posed the question: is he the greatest midfielder in USMNT history? After the debate, Alexi and Mosse discuss the impact that players such as Brenden Aaronson and Diego Luna will have on the USA’s squad at this summer’s World Cup. The January transfer window has opened and Ricardo Pepi’s name is flying around with a potential move to the Premier League looming, so the pair discuss what moves they’d like to see in this window. In #AskAlexi, Alexi power ranks the group stage matches he is most looking forward to at the World Cup and in One for the Road, we discuss the rising popularity of soccer in America. Use my code for $30 off your next order of World Cup Tickets on SeatGeek*:https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/SOTU Sponsored by SeatGeek. *Restrictions apply. Max $30discount, Min. $200 Purchase Intro: (0:00)Is Weston McKennie the greatest USA midfielder ever: (4:11)Will Brenden Aaronson or Diego Luna have a bigger World Cup impact: (11:11)Managers getting sacked left and right: (14:29)Ricardo Pepi to the Premier League?: (26:20)#AskAlexi: (31:29)One For the Road: (41:07) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Why do growing businesses love working in Slack?
0:02.8	Let's ask Christia Ari Bikes.
0:04.6	Running things in Slack saves me so much time.
0:07.3	AI summaries save 97 minutes per week.
0:10.4	What say you?
0:11.4	Rocks from Gosney.
0:12.4	Slack helps us build community.
0:13.9	It helps us build connection.
0:15.2	Your partners, vendors and customers all in one place.
0:18.3	Take us on home, Ashley from Carraway.
0:20.3	If we did have Slack tomorrow, I would explode.
0:23.4	Well, let's not let that happen.
0:25.1	Visit Slack.com slash podcast to get 50% of Slack Business Plus.
0:30.0	To Michael Bradley, Tab Ramos, Claudio Rain, etc.
0:33.3	Weston McKinney is the best midfielder in U.S. men's national team history.
0:37.3	Wow.
0:38.3	The hottest of the takes coming from our friend up in the Great White North.
1:01.9	Hello, Sunshine. I'm Alexi Lalas and welcome to the State of the Union podcast.
1:06.3	Where we look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red, white, and blue colored glasses.
1:09.6	This show will be talking, ooh, Erinson crushing it.
1:15.9	How good historically is Weston, holistic nagging, Nancy as a proxy, best group games this coming summer, breakdown 1975, career ending injuries, peppy on the market, soccer
1:21.1	gaining ground, sinners, and so much more.
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