Christian Polisicic is the guy that when you have thrown challenges in front of him,

so far he has been able to rise to the occasion. I think he would rise to this occasion.

And while maybe not starting every single game would give

Yurgan Clop and everybody there is something to think about.

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 discussing Christian Pulisic's future. We'll have our Mossy Makes the Case segment.

We'll be answering your questions in our ask Alexi segment.

We'll continue with our world update segment and so much more. But first as always

joining me my friend, my colleague my guiding light David Mossy a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher

and writer extraordinary how are you mr mossy I am good I am wearing a Brazil

national team jersey today. The story here is that Brazil played

England in the summer of 1995 at Wembley in a tournament called the Umbro Cup.

Brazil won 31. Warren Barton featured in that match and at the

final whistle he swapped jerseys with a Brazilian player named Edmondo, the

animal. The animal. And I mentioned to Warren a couple years ago that Edmondo was one of my favorite players and so Warren very generously gave me the Jersey.

Wow, yeah, that Warren Barton, he is incredible. Now you like Ed Mundo and liked Ed Mundo because of his crazy personality and his animalistic type of style both on and off the field or what was it that attracted you to this.

I also thought he was a great player.

He was a great player and oftentimes the antics by the way he played in that

1998 gold cup semi-final prekey the I know it well I was there I was running around trying to stop

yeah but if you notice last three weeks I wore a

Jersey that was a gift from Max Odenheimer then I wore a warm-up kit that was a

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