Soccer’s return, Dortmund/Schalke, Reyna, Davies, Jordan’s ‘Dream Team’

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

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🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Alexi and Mosse kick off the show with a quick chat about '80s rock 'n' roll. Then, the Bundesliga's return to action is discussed (6:13), along with which teams looked most prepared coming out of the hiatus (17:20) and how the Americans in the league performed (30:05). Also, Alphonso Davies' meteoric rise, pros/cons of buying a club and news surrounding Major League Soccer's status are looked at in #AskAlexi (37:55). Finally, Alexi gives a peek behind the curtain at his time at the '92 Olympics and his brush with the Michael Jordan-led "Dream Team" (52:31) in another remote edition of the State of the Union Podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, Sunshine. I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome for the State of the Union
0:05.4	podcast. When we look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the
0:08.5	lens of red white and blue colored glasses, this week we'll be obviously talking about, yes, the return of the Bundeslega.
0:16.5	We'll also be talking about Wind of Change, Alfonso Davies, Aland, what club you may or may not buy, if you had a bunch of money?
0:28.0	The 92 Dream Team, some MLS possibilities, mark and so much more but first joining me as always my friend my colleague my guiding light
0:39.7	David Mossy a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary.
0:44.0	How are you on this? What is this? Sunday morning, I think it is, Mossy. How are you doing, my friend?
0:50.0	I am doing well, and I know we're going to be talking about German soccer but first I would
0:55.2	like to discuss with you a German rock band. Yes. So you got you got to me this week. We are both avid listeners and voracious consumers of the
1:08.0	podcast genre out there. All different genres within it, but we listen to a lot of podcasts obviously we do
1:14.0	podcasts and hopefully people that are listening and watching out there are also
1:17.3	are taking in the incredible podcast industry that is out there and so you got to me
1:21.7	midweek and asked me a question that got me incredibly
1:25.2	intrigued so what did you what did you ask me?
1:27.2	Well I asked if you had listened to Wind of Change this past week a podcast documentary was released on Spotify called Wind of Change.
1:36.0	Broadly speaking, it's about the propaganda role that rock music played during the Cold War.
1:41.0	More specifically, it's hosted by this journalist who
1:43.2	investigated the urban legend that the CIA actually wrote the song
1:46.4	Wind of Change by the German rock band Scorpions. The official story is that
1:51.2	Scorpions took part in a famous concert in Moscow in August of 1989 alongside
1:56.3	the likes of Bon Jovi and Motley crew. This was right before the fall of communism and the lead singer of scorpions could sense what was happening.
2:04.5	It was inspired to write a ballot about freedom.
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