Hello, Sunchier, I'm Alexi Lawless and Welcome to the State of the Union

Procast. We look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of

red, white, and blue-colored classes. This episode will be talking, well, MLS playoff preview,

UCL Roundup, the Condor, Barsa Blushes,

My Big Mouth, Berhalter's Big Brain,

US Women's National Team Red Flags,

and so much more.

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

David Mossy, a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary

Mossy, how are you doing on this Wednesday, October 12th. extraordinary. I come to you from the great city of New York.

I'm here on a little junket, as they say, a little press junket getting ready for the World Cup.

But you are a man on the fort back there at the studio.

You look great, my friend. How you doing friend how you doing well yeah a little bit lonely

today right we'll go through it so you know we're getting down to it when it comes to the World Cup.

And so myself and Rob Stone, Stu Holden, and some others,

Jenny Taft, we're out here doing the rounds,

doing some press for the World Cup, obviously to get people excited about what we think is going to be an incredible World Cup from a Fox perspective and what we're doing so you know we're you know we're doing we are you know we're doing what we're doing what we do we are you know selling it and it sells

itself to be quite honest with you but they bring us in anyway and it's always

fun to come back here to New York.

I lived here many, many years ago.

I lived in the city for a while, and then even before that,

when I was playing for the then metro stars,

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