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Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

Jesse Marsch's Premier League interest, USWNT preparing for World Cup & Diego Cocca's future | SOTU

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

FOX Sports

Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.21.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The weekend brought plenty of drama, as Alexi Lalas and David Mosse have you covered with all the soccer content that you need! Lalas and Mosse jump into today's show by discussing Mexico hiring Diego Cocca for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Lalas and Mosse analyze whether Cocca is a good fit for the Mexican national team. Lalas and Mosse sure to highlight USWNT's matches in the upcoming SheBelieves Cup and discuss whether the competition in the Cup is a good test for the upcoming FIFA Women's World Cup. Afterwards, Lalas and Mosse react to Southampton having an interest in bringing Jesse Marsch as their manager and they debate whether Marsch would able to get Southampton out of relegation. Moving to the European matches from the weekend, Lalas and Mosse break down Napoli's impressive victory over Cremonese, Arsenal's sluggish draw against Brentford, and the rising Manchester City. To wrap up the show, Lalas and Mosse pick their five-a-side USWNT team and Lalas talks about his upcoming knee surgery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the Union Podcast.

0:07.0

We look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red white and blue colored glasses.

0:11.0

This episode will be talking the Super Bowl, Club World Cup, knees,

0:15.6

El Tree Champions League, she believes, Polisic, Marsh, Five Aside, and so much more.

0:21.2

But first joining me as always my friend my colleague my guiding light

0:24.3

David Mossier soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer

0:27.8

extraordinary. Mossy how you doing on this Monday of February 13th in the year 2023?

0:36.0

Doing well, so Riana is pregnant.

0:40.0

Have we settled that?

0:42.0

We have established that only because we got confirmation because you like me

0:46.8

By the way first off we should say if you are watching the show you will already see that we are in a scaled down version of the show. So don't be alarmed. We had a

0:56.8

jolt to the system as it were this morning and we're trying to get it all fixed but all the bells and whistles from a an

1:05.0

appearance standpoint and all the different things that we have done won't be

1:08.1

won't be available on this show so you're gonna have to deal with us if you're

1:11.6

watching just with a very you you know, kind of low-key type of situation here.

1:16.9

But if you're listening, it's all the same. It's all the same. Anyway, yes, so Super Bowl was yesterday.

1:22.0

You watched it, I watched it, so you watch what's happening on the field from a sports

1:26.3

perspective, what's happening on the field, from an entertainment perspective, you mentioned

1:31.2

Riana, and what's happening, I guess, guess off the field also from an entertainment perspective in terms of the advertisements

1:37.1

When it comes to Riana. Yeah, I think you and me and everybody when she showed up at halftime, you know how in in normal culture you're

1:46.4

taught not to say anything lest it not be a situation where somebody is pregnant but immediately you saw her on the screen and she was doing nothing to hide it and then one said wait a second she just had a baby and now she's pregnant here and so yeah that's exactly what I said to my wife and

2:04.6

my wife said yeah she's pregnant all in all I thought it was good I'm not a huge

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