Hello, Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis, and welcome to the State of the Union

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

red white and blue-colored glasses. This episode will be talking

Champions League, it's Back, Baby.

Team identity, the US Women's National Team,

Independently, goalkeeper scoring,

Jesse Marsh, and so much more.

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

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

extraordinary

Mossy how you doing on this uh... Wednesday September 20th in the year 20th,

23.

I'm doing well. I'm glad you were here

and not fulfilling your civic responsibility.

Again, I have, uh, I, I, I am unscathed so far. Knock on wood, knock on my head, knock on everything. Three days, so we are recording this on Wednesday for three days. I have avoided the call in, if you will, when it comes to jury duty.

I have two more.

And if I avoid it again, I will have fulfilled my civic duty, even though they haven't been

called in. So yes, 7 p.m. each day I log on and I

find out my fate for the next day. Three out of five I don't want to jinx it but

we're getting we're getting down to the last part of the week here so it's been

okay but it means that I can be here with you and we don't have any change any

schedule and thankfully from my perspective and maybe from people's respective I get to be in the show because

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