I just don't see a world in which Johnny is not called up for these March friendlies.

You have to give him one more look.

Yeah, I agree with you.

In this March window, he does deserve another look for sure.

He deserves one final chance with the U.S. in March to prove to Pochitino that he can be in that roster for the World Cup. Hello, Sunshine. I'm Stu Holden and welcome to the State of the Union podcast,

where we look at the beautiful game on and off the field for the lens of red, white, and blue colored glasses.

This show will be talking Weston McKinney, staying hot, MLS coaches abroad, Johnny Cardoso's comeback, Derby Day, Jedi's playing time, and so much more.

But first, joining me as always is my friend, my colleague,

my guiding light, David Mossy, a soccer savant and a Fox Soccer researcher and writer extraordinaire.

How you doing, Mossie? Good, bud? I'm doing well. Now, Stu, I don't want you to get jealous

looking at these bobblehead dolls of myself and Alexi. I am told there's one of you on the way. Oh, I heard about this. Just for now, can we just turn this Alexi one like around while he's not here? He's staring at us now. Okay, even better. How do we feel about that? Much better. Well, we know where Alexi was, in fact. Sometimes

he ends up on these mysterious journeys. He's quite cryptic about where he was going. But

we are on the State of the Union podcast. Our good friend Alexi Lalas was at the actual state

of the union. Or you could say this is the actual state of the union, but he was at the one

with the president in D.C., so rubbing some esteemed shoulders, was he?

In honor of that state of the Union, I was going to request a crowd today, and when you dropped

a take, half of them would get up and clap, the other half would stay seated.

Nice.

He has been very active today on Twitter. So, well, he's always active. Let's be honest. He loves

getting involved. What are we yelling about today? Yes. What are we yelling about? We're

yelling about the fact that you're skipping on another pod, but also very happy because we get to

enjoy some time together. So should we like this candle, Massey?

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