The Kunkakaf Champions League remains a race to the moon and an opportunity to

plan a flag of credibility for your club, league, and country. There was a time

when American teams supported and cheered each other on, in a rising tide lifts all boats type of approach.

But now, I think it's everyone for themselves.

And there's an individual desire to want to be the first to plant that CCL flag.

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 the Kankacaf Champions League.

We'll have our Mossy Makes the Case segment.

He'll be talking about the Uwaifa Champions League results and how they change perception and narratives.

We'll be answering your questions in our hashtag Ask Alexi segment with some college soccer talk

and some more MLS 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 this week mossy I am good I am still here I know you tried to replace me with a different co-host but I waved off the substitution

So I'm still sitting in his chair

You're all good you know what I did this weekend, Mossy? I went back to my high school. They

invited me back. I went to a high school right outside of Detroit, a prep school

called Cranbrook. You can make your appropriate nine or eight mile joke and

all that kind of stuff right now. I was incredibly fortunate and privileged to go to

this wonderful school and they brought me back to speak in a lecture series distinguished alumni.

Obviously none of them could come back and so they got me.

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