At a time when US players are often accused of being naive, soft, and immature, or lacking

guile, cunning, and soccer smarts needed, Mejazka stepped up with some trash talking that beat Mexico with their own game.

And let's be honest, this was a bit of gamesmanship that Rafa Marquez would be proud of.

So we see you, Matt, but now so does everyone else.

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 talking about the Meazga meme. 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 a

fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary.

Mr. Rossi, how are you today?

I am good.

The Jersey of choice is a Rinaldingo Barcelona

because we are going to be chatting Rinaldingo on this podcast.

We are?

Good teas, good teas, buddy. Also, I already bank. on this

We are good tease buddy also I already banged out the Boca Jr's Netflix documentary this weekend

So this is in a now a long line of behind the scenes reality type of hard knocks type of things now we've had

man city we've had you ventus and now we have a book of juniors one you've seen

them all right correct I love these documentaries and which one so far is the best one? Do any of them learn from the previous ones?

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