U.S. Soccer sets 2030 goals, Does Ronaldo fit at Juventus? & more.

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

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Soccer, News, Sports, Sports News

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Alexi and Mosse open the show discussing Thierry Henry stepping down as C.F. Montreal head coach (12: 40). The guys then talk new U.S. Soccer V.P., Key dates for USMNT in 2021 (29: 40), and the 2030 goals set for the women’s and men’s team. They look at Europe (40:40) and chat about Cristiano Ronaldo’s lack of Champions League success at Juventus after Antonio Cassano’s comments make headlines. Gareth Bale’s rejuvenation, Manchester United’s fight to stay in the top 4, England’s consistent issue with VAR, and Schalke sacking its entire coaching staff. In #AskAlexi, fans ask for the best player not named Pele to play in the USA, Alexi’s soccer investments in Detroit, and players wearing jewelry on the field. (1:09:09). Finally, Alexi caps the show with his “One for the Road” on Zlatan Ibrahimović’s recent comments about LeBron James getting involved in politics (1:20:45) 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, this is Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the Union podcast
0:05.1	where we look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of
0:07.8	red white and blue colored glasses. This week we'll be talking the United States
0:12.2	soccer's latest AGM and the elections
0:15.0	Tierry on re re Ronaldo criticism v a r bail e p p l blundus leagga me owning Detroit
0:22.0	la leagga the greatest foreign player ever to play in the Lea
0:23.0	me owning Detroit, Le Le Le Le Lea, the greatest foreign player ever to play in the US, the art world, weird science, the investigation, and so much more.
0:29.0	But first joining me as always, oh yes, love him you know him my friend my
0:34.5	colleague my guiding light David Mossy a soccer savant and a fox soccer
0:38.0	researcher and writer extraordinary mossy how are you doing on this?
0:42.8	Ah, Monday, March 1st in the year 2021,
0:47.1	the first day of the beautiful month of March.
0:51.6	I am doing well after a week in which I spent an
0:54.3	anordinate amount of time thinking about Pele's career thanks to Netflix.
0:58.0	Oh yeah you want to talk about that. I don't know when do you start your pandemic day do you have a date I have the Friday the 13th
1:07.2	So we're coming up to the year anniversary here, but we obviously are in the month where the majority of people
1:16.0	kind of circle as the start of a year if you can believe that it's been a year. Are you two in March? Do you have a date?
1:19.9	I just remember it being in March. I don't have an exact date.
1:22.4	I have a Friday the the 13th fitting right?
1:24.6	Okay so, Massey, what have you been watching? I know you really want to talk about Pele. Okay, go ahead.
1:28.6	Well no, I've been on a bit of a documentary kick. I the Pele Netflix doc which we'll get to in a second I also
1:36.3	watch the Hotel Cecil I have a new favorite musician morbid I on a serious note I watched last night the dissident which is this very
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