Olympic heartbreak once again for USA, Sergino Dest standing out in USMNT wins, Crazy Serbia-Portugal ending with Ronaldo, preview Europe club matches, and more.

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Alexi and Mosse open the show with a discussion on the failure of USMYT to qualify for the Olympics (05: 55). The guys then grade US senior’s team and individual performances, including standout Sergino Dest and Gio Reyna’s body language. They look at the rest of the world (51:00) and break down the European World Cup qualifier matches, including the crazy Serbia vs. Portugal ending. They also touch on the lack of VR in international matches, Zlatan Ibrahimović back with Sweden, Luka Modric becoming the most capped Croatian player, and Robert Lewandowski’s injury. The guys then preview some big club matches for the weekend: Bayern Munich vs. RB Leipzig, La Lagia top 3, PSG vs. Lille and Arsenal vs. Liverpool. In #AskAlexi (1:03:04), fans asked about Bob Bradley as a person and how Alexi dealt with injuries. Finally, Alexi caps the show with his “One for the Road" (1:15:04) where he answers a fan question if the USA’s Men soccer system is broken or just not good enough. 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
0:04.2	podcast where we look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of
0:07.4	red white and blue-colored glasses. This week, well obviously we'll be talking
0:11.6	about the Olympic failure, everything that it was and I guess wasn't.
0:17.0	We're talking about qualifying that's happening over in Europe.
0:20.0	We'll talk about Bob Bradley and John Wayne Gacy in the system, quote unquote the system,
0:25.0	injuries, U.S. men's national team, the American soccer psyche, footloose, and much more.
0:31.4	But first joining me as always my friend my colleague my guiding light
0:35.8	David Mossy a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary
0:40.0	Mossy how are you on this Monday, March 29th?
0:46.5	And I know that is a loaded question.
0:49.5	I'm doing well after a busy weekend,
0:52.4	yesterday was a beast of a day.
0:54.1	I'm not complaining.
0:55.0	I love my job, but to have to be in there at 6 a.m.
0:58.4	to cover the US senior game and then
1:01.2	to roll right into that under 23 double header where we had a half hour
1:05.9	pre-game leading into the first game and an hour pre-game leading into the second one was it was a beast of a day.
1:11.9	It's uh it was it day. It was fun. It was good.
1:15.0	The alternative is that we don't have jobs,
1:17.0	so I'm pretty happy with that.
1:18.0	And no, so, okay, so before we get into it, we're not burying the lead,
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