When the age of American Soccer specific stadiums started in the early 2000s,

the accepted wisdom was that while facilities are game changers for the business,

beggars can't be choosers.

When it came to location, you took what you could get.

But rather than these stadiums becoming oasis, some would become outposts. If you build it, they don't always come.

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. As you heard, we'll be talking about the

evolution of the American soccer stadium in our

Massey makes the case segment. Massey is going to be talking about an outspoken

and adult messy, whatever that means. Our Ask Alexi segment will be talking about referees and in our

back three we'll be talking about Zlatan 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

mossie how are you on this Monday morning I am good and I learned an important lesson

last week okay I'm never going to a soccer match with Keith

Kostigan again. Really? Yes. Keith Kostigan, one of our colleagues over there, a

man who's done thousands and thousands of calls of game, a student of the game if you will, getting all of his coaching badges,

and so he looks at it from a bunch of different perspectives and a member of the tribe

when it comes to the Mutant Gene.

A man I know and love.

What was the problem this weekend going out to a game with Keith Kofskin?

We attended the Brazil Peroo Friendly at the LA Coliseum, dreadful performance by Brazil,

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