Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the Union Podcast, where we look at the beautiful

game on and off the field through the lens of red, white, and blue-colored glasses.

This week we'll be obviously talking about Diego Maradona,

MLS playoffs, European Roundup,

Sarah Fuller, Clop, the Undoing, D.B. Cooper,

and so much more.

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

colleague, my guiding light. David Mossy, a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher

and writer extraordinaire. Mossy how are you on this Monday, November 30th, 2020?

And I know normally we would go right into what we are watching and everything, but obviously

this is coming on the heels of the news last week of the death of Diego Maradona. I want to jump right into it. So much has already been said. We don't want to keep repeating ourselves, but he is of the size and importance that he deserves this type of reverence and respect.

So we're going to jump right into it.

Thoughts, initial thoughts on the passing of the great one that is and was Diego

Maradon. Very sad news obviously and it's really the the second occasion in just a few

weeks here and really the third occasion in a short period of time to really

reflect on this man's career in life you had that HBO documentary that came out last year and then you had his 60th birthday late last month and now his passing. So there's been a lot of recently a lot of reflecting on Maradonna but deservedly so because he is

One of if not the most iconic figure in the history of the the game. So obviously within the game this was going to hit hard, but I think you saw his ability

to touch so many different people in so many different people that you wouldn't even necessarily associate

with soccer coming out

and recognizing how important he was, not just to the game but to the world.

Look, when you talk about Diego Maradona, he was equal parts saint and sinner and hero and

villain and beauty and beast and God and devil he was all of these things but he was first and

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