Wayne Rooney orchestrated an iconic,

memorable, and defining moment this weekend.

It was one for the ages and the kind of drama that you hope for

when you sign a big name.

It was absolutely a magical moment. It was not, however, the best

goal in MLS history. Hello, Sunshine. I'm Alexi Lollison, 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 Wayne Rooney's heroics.

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 savant and Fox soccer researcher and writer

extraordinary how are you mr mossy I am good got back in the mix this past

weekend with the German Super Cup, Frankfurt-Byrne.

It was great to see the likes of Kate Abdo and Ian Joy and Joy and Jovon Karofsky and Keith

and Stu Holden again. So the gang is back together. It was good times.

I can't wait. I'm scheduled to work at the kickoff of the Bundesliga,

so I will be back in Los Angeles for the first time in close to three months when we kicked that off and then I got to head right back out to do some

more MLS. We'll talk more about MLS in this in this podcast, but I'm excited to get into

this fall. I'm excited to get into all of this soccer that's coming. We got plenty of it on on our

Fox channels and you know the the soccer television rights is a huge huge story.

Everybody's buying up different things. once again if you are in the

United States you have the opportunity to see more soccer than a lot of people

around the world you're gonna have to pay for it in some instances but this is

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