I do believe that college and the college experience in totality can help make you a better soccer player.

The unique lessons learned, the tools acquired, and the experiences had can help produce a more well-rounded and certainly a better educated player.

Also, one that is better equipped to deal with the inevitable, a life without soccer.

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 the lens of

red white and blue colored glasses. As you heard we'll be talking about the merits of college soccer. We'll have our

Mossy Makes the Case segment. We'll be answering your questions in our Ask Alexi segment and so

much more. But first, as always, joining me my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, David Mossy, a soccer

sauerk, a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinaire.

Mr. Mossy, how are you this week?

I am good. I have quite the tan going, which everybody's coming. Mr.

Mossy, how are you this week?

I am good. I have quite the tan going, which everybody's commenting on.

I've spent a lot of time at the beach in the last couple of weeks,

but it's been nice, very relaxing.

You are a bronze adonis. I, however, unfortunately, have never been able to

experience something like that. I'm at SPF, whatever the highest I can possibly get. But, you you know that comes with the territory of

possessing that mutant gene. All right listen anything else you're doing this

week besides sitting in the sun back there in Los Angeles once again we are coming

from different coasts I am out here actually on

Cape Cod beautiful Cape Cod recording this and you are back in our Los Angeles

studios. We've got a couple more weeks where we're going to be in different places and

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