The moment a player steps on the field for their country, he or she joins a special and elite club.

But when your time on the field is over, it's over.

It is beautifully fleeting, so enjoy it while it's here.

A national team will produce legends who occupy a special place in our hearts and minds,

and it's natural to want to celebrate those legends.

Wayne Rooney is one such legend.

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 Wayne Rooney's Charity.

We'll have our Mossy Makes the Case segment.

We'll be answering your questions in our hashtag Ask Alexi segment and so much more.

But first, as always, joining me, my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, David Mossier

soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary. How are you today, Mossy?

I am good. Wearing a Byron Munich jersey Jersey we're going to talk about their

classicker later on when I started doing Bundesliga this year I have the great

Kate Abdo who speaks at this point I think 17 different languages and various dialects within those

languages teach me some German words here and there. I took German when I was in

sixth grade I think. The only thing I learned was,

is, too my light, I'm sorry I'm late. The only thing I learned was, uh, it's my first bet it hava, which means,

I'm sorry I'm late or something like that.

And then I was able to conjugate I could do erziest,

ere, ere, ere, ere z, z, that was all I learned.

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