Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to a special live edition of 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 color glasses. We are coming to you directly after the Trinidad Tobago

versus US game. Not great, but what is great is as always joining me. My friend, my colleague, my guiding light, David

Mossier soccer savant and a Fox soccer researcher and writer, extraordinaryordinary, Mossy,

or coming to you on this evening, Monday, November 20th

in the year, 2023, following a loss in terms of the 90 minutes for the US team, but I guess overall a win in they will go on as this was a home in a way.

So much to talk to.

First off, how you do my friend doing well

congratulations the United States has qualified for the 2024 cop America

you know I've been putting Pulisic on those promos and holding my breath but now I can feel good about that.

Well yeah I mean so there is a greater good and there is a bigger fish to fry if you will

when it comes to this. However, you know as we look at data, data points,

whatever you want to call them, this is not going to be one that is going to be

pointed to as a you know a a moment where the belief

was justified and by many it's probably going to be looked at as yet another

example of problems lurking for this team that I think we all agree is very good

but the question is can they live up to the potential?

And the next big moment from a assessment perspective is going to be next summer.

So yes, they are going to Copo America,

but a lot to talk about here in terms of this result.

When you look at this mossy, where do you want to start? Let's start with first off, where we start

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