U.S. Soccer finally has their Sporting Director and Ricardo Pepi to the U-20 FIFA World Cup? | SOTU

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

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🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Alexi Lalas and David Mosse react to the BIG USMNT news as they have you covered with all the soccer content that you need! Lalas and Mosse first react to U.S. soccer appointing Matt Crocker as the Sporting Director. The duo debate what this means for USMNT and USWNT moving forward and whether Crocker will need to accumulate to the United States. Continuing with the American theme, Lalas and Mosse react to the top MLS games this past weekend such as LAFC vs. Nashville SC and Atlanta United vs. Chicago Fire FC. They also make sure to preview the CONCACAF Champions League matches between LAFC vs. Philadelphia Union and Tigres vs. Leon. Moving over to Europe, Lalas and Mosse recap the top European games such as Arsenal vs. Southampton and Mainz vs. Bayern Munich. To wrap up the show, they discuss whether Ricardo Pepi should play in the U-20 FIFA World Cup and Lalas talks the impact of AI technology in soccer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the Union Podcast.
0:07.6	When we look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red, white, and blue
0:11.3	colored glasses, this episode will be talking,
0:14.4	oh, new leadership over there at USF, allegedly.
0:19.2	Cleopatra, Blue Checks, CCL,
0:21.8	title races, Rexam, and so much more.
0:23.8	But first joining me as always, my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, David Massey
0:27.2	a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer,
0:29.8	extraordinary!
0:31.4	Massey, how you doing on this Monday, April 24th in the year 2023.
0:36.8	What a world we live in?
0:37.8	I am doing well, excited to be here on a day with some big US Soccer federation news as you mentioned.
0:43.0	Oh yeah all sorts of stuff going on.
0:45.0	Hey, Maassee, a couple things before we get into what we watched
0:48.0	because it's referencing back a couple of pods ago.
0:52.0	I put out on on Twitter a poll relative to something
0:58.4	that we had talked about and I can't remember what your take was.
1:02.8	Can you say you read a book if you only listen to it on audio?
1:07.4	Because I only listen to books now on audio.
1:11.1	I listen to them at, I'll be honest, double speed. I don't do the
1:16.2	traditional reading anymore. So when I'm talking to you or anybody else, even on the
1:20.4	pod when we talk about stuff that we've read or seen or something like that.
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