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This is Rebecca Loew or Rebecca Loewa if you listen to suboptimal radio and you are listening to Men in Blazers on the NBC Sports Network.

Welcome to a Men in Blazers pod special. A special MLS pod special.

And not just because we stop for cheese steaks and sell filly on the way home.

That's right. Earlier this week, produces JW Lexie Evan and I travel to the great city of Philadelphia to talk to Ali Bedoya, a man currently grappling with a union side in transition and in search of their first win.

This conversation was actually recorded in the union locker room at their training facility by their ping pong table in Chester, PA.

So if you hear someone sharing in the background, worry not. It's just Chris Pontius. Here it is, direct from the same city where the Continental Congress first met in 1774 to get rid of Davos ancestors and begin to dream of MLS glory.

I'm sitting here with a staple of the United States men's national team, Agenda, whose story starts across the Delaware in the great state of New Jersey and manoe through caution to the wind and traverse the Atlantic to test his limits in the trenches of European football.

We're talking Sweden, Scotland, France, but last season you return to these shores in hopes of following in the footsteps of Randall Cunningham, Alan Iverson and Lenny Daikstra to bring glory to this quite wonderful city.

We welcome to the pod and man who was his fourth right off the field as he is hard charging on it, 59 US caps.

You're captain of the Philadelphia Union, the one and only. Mr Alejandro Bedoya.

Thanks for having me. I wish I had a great opening statement like that, but I don't have that in me.

I can't not be more excited to speak to you today because I find your career story absolutely fascinating.

You're born in Englewood, New Jersey, hometown of Sarah Jessica Parker. I believe you're an Arsenal Barcelona Palmer supporter as a kid.

You played you soccer with a mighty Clifton stallions with Giuseppe Rossi, future pros Dan Cetella and Jonathan Barrajo.

What I want to know is you grew up dreaming of what exactly what did you think was possible for yourself when you were a kid.

It was on TV. I was on a radio all day in the household every weekend, but I never really actually dreamed that I would become a professional footballer.

My family came over from Colombia for obviously bigger aspirations, bigger dreams. Education was always key.

I always first and foremost was my mom was always stressing that you know get my degree be good in school and the rest will take care of itself.

I didn't really think about becoming a footballer or a soccer player, a professional soccer player until I got to college really.

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