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.

This week we'll be talking, well, MLS Cup and the champions that we have. Let's see, what else?

The Unforgivable, you have a Champions League, some U.S. Men's National Team, I'll be

fielding your calls and questions and concerns

when it comes to Ask Alexi, the big short and much 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.

Mossy, how are you on this? What for me is December 13th at around 930 or 10 o'clock at night in the city

of Doha Qatar and for you is also Monday December December 13th, but much more so in the morning.

How you doing my friend?

I am doing well, boy, you're still there, huh?

I am still here.

This will be the last pod that we do.

I leave here in a couple of days. I appreciate everyone

allowing me to do this from afar and once again apologize if there are any type of

audio issues. We've been pretty good, and Luis has done a good job of cobbling this together

even though I come to you from Qatar.

And so the trip to Qatar continues on since last we spoke, done all sorts of things, Mossy.

Let's see. Today we were, we spent the morning at the the Falconry facility. Falconry is a huge

thing over here in Qatar. They breed Falcons and then they send them out and have competitions for the

fastest Falcon in terms of the Falcon that goes after the prey. So that's a big sport, I guess,

if you want to call it that over here.

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