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Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

MLS Opening Week Recap, Historic weekend for Americans abroad including Weston McKennie, Folarin Balogun, and Johnny Cardoso

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

FOX Sports

Soccer, News, Sports, Sports News

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Alexi Lalas and David Mosse open the podcast with the MLS Opening Week. Messi and Inter Miami take the Sunday win over LA Galaxy with controversy on a double yellow card. Columbus Crew, LAFC, Portland, and FC Dallas also start the season in the win column. (7:49) The guys continued with a recap of the historic weekend abroad. Chris Richards became the 12th USMNT player to score a goal in the five major European leagues this season, and goal contributions from Folarin Balogun, Johnny Cardoso, and Weston McKenzie on Sunday alone. (28:09) To wrap, Alexi and Mosse gave their dream guest picks and discussed Don Garber’s thoughts on media coverage of Messi (50:42) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

It would be Trump and Megan Rapino.

0:02.4

Holy crap, all three of us at the same time, Massey.

0:06.8

Trump, Megan Rapino, and me.

0:09.6

That is something that you would want to watch. Hello Sunshine I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the Union

0:29.1

Podcast where we look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the

0:31.6

lens of red weight and blue

0:32.6

color glasses this show will be talking

0:34.7

mLS week one in the books messy money true detective the Americans abroad best

0:40.5

week ever question mark dream guests referees soccer media my hypocrisy and so much more but

0:47.5

first joining me as always my friend my colleague my guiding light David Mossier

0:51.6

soccer savant and a fox soccer research and writer extraordinary

0:54.9

Massey how you doing on this Monday February 26th in the year 2024.

1:00.7

I'm doing well I'm happy to be taping at our regular time. There was a possibility that Kishon Johnson was going to need to use this studio right now and so we would have to tape much earlier than usual, but we got word last night that Kishan whatever he was planning to do got

1:16.0

canceled and so we're taking a chance on remind me again played for whom he was a big star at USC, okay, yeah. Football, right? Correct. Yep.

1:27.6

Uh, played for the New York Jets, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

1:31.2

Got it, Got it.

1:33.0

He's a big timer, big legend.

1:35.0

So, you know, we would, we're benevolent here at the State of the Union, so we would have taken a little time

1:40.0

and, you know, moved around in order to accommodate him. But but like you said we're at our normal time here

1:45.1

interesting weekend my friend did you watch anything that you want to talk about a couple things

1:50.8

last Wednesday I mentioned on the pod that I was going to see a documentary called

1:56.6

20 days in Mariopold about the Ukraine, Russia where I don't want to dwell on it because

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