MLS tourney, EPL's return, Haaland, La Liga, Werner/Pulisic

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

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🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Alexi and Mosse start the show with a quick chat about local cuisine before diving in on the "MLS is Back" tournament details (5:29). Then, the guys look across the Atlantic to La Liga action (18:17), Erling Haaland's rise (22:59) and the EPL's imminent return (33:43). Also, Alexi's MLS vs. EPL stance, Timo Werner's impact on Christian Pulisic and hipster soccer teams are looked at in #AskAlexi (40:42). Finally, Alexi caps the show with a look back at Canada, Mexico and the U.S. winning the 2026 World Cup bid (56:44) in another remote edition of the State of the Union Podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the Union
0:05.1	podcast where we look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the
0:08.2	lens of red white and blue colored glasses. This week we will be talking about
0:13.4	hashtag MLS is back, the return of Major League Soccer
0:17.0	and the official announcement of the tournament down in Orlando
0:20.6	that's going to come up here in the next month.
0:23.0	La Liga's back, Bundes Liga has been back,
0:25.8	Syria is back, or at least Italian soccer is back.
0:29.3	Timo Time, we'll talk about Timo Time, Timo Werner Time,
0:32.4	we're talking about USo Time, Timo Werner Time. We're talking about US
0:33.9	Hipster Teams and what are the most hipster-esque, I guess, if you will, out there
0:39.1	and so much more. But first joining me as always is my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, David Mossy,
0:46.3	a soccer saverant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary.
0:50.4	Mossy, how are you on this Sunday morning, June 14th in the year of 2020?
0:57.0	I'm doing well. Some of my favorite restaurants have started seating people again, so I've enjoyed a couple of meals
1:04.8	out for the first time in three months a couple of the malls near me have opened up
1:09.4	again so life slowly returning back to normal slowly as you say. I too have ventured out and I think it's safe
1:18.0	and I think it's safe to say that I was cautious and overly cautious over this quarantine period.
1:26.5	But last night, so that would have been Saturday night, I ventured out with my better half and we went to a restaurant we went to an
1:35.4	Italian restaurant in El Segundo California actually by the name of I should give
1:40.2	it a plug here H Hame Anoteca, and it was wonderful.
1:44.8	It was absolutely wonderful, not just the food
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