UCL & CCC Preview, McKennie & Pulisic with new coaches, Emma Hayes takes charge

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The gangs all back together again! Alexi Lalas and David Mosse have returned from their travels and are in the studio to talk soccer abroad and stateside. The Champions League final is set for this Saturday, an epic battle between Dortmund and Real Madrid. Also in Europe, the coaching carousel continues. Thiago Motto, Paulo Fonseca, Hansi Flick, and Vincent Kompany are heading to new clubs next season. Back stateside, the Columbus Crew travel to Mexico this weekend for the CONCACAF Champions Cup final, with a chance to book their ticket to the 2025 FIFA Men's Club World Cup. (6:09) The guys then kick it over to US Soccer, where Alexi shares his thoughts on the USMNT Copa America roster. They also chat about the newly released Olympic roster. And Emma Hayes is in Colorado, taking charge ahead of USWNT friendlies against South Korea. (42:28) To wrap the show, Alexi and Mosse answer a couple of questions in #AskAlexi, including the possibility of getting a face tattoo to guarantee a USMNT World Cup victory and thoughts on Tim Weah joining ownership with a non-MLS professional team. Alexi recaps his travels in Germany and shares a few fun pictures as well. (60:37) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We have seen this team mature in front of us. We have labeled them at times the greatest
0:09.3	generation that we have seen in terms of talent and in terms of depth. I do think that there is a
0:14.6	danger of looking at this group and letting them get away with with not living up to expectations. Hello Sunshonchion I'm Alexi Les, and welcome to the State of the Union Podcast.
0:44.0	We look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red white and blue colored glasses.
0:48.0	This show will be talking UCL Final, a simple favor, German Vacation, Coaching Carousel, C-C-final, Messy's return,
0:56.8	the U.S. Men's National Team roster, Hunger Games, the Olympic roster, Emma's arrival,
1:01.3	face tats, soccer ownership, and so much more.
1:05.0	But first joining me as always, my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, David Mossy, a soccer
1:10.0	savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary!
1:14.0	Mossy, how are you doing on this Wednesday, May 29th in the year 2024?
1:19.4	I'm doing well, you do have to call me David Cox today.
1:22.4	Why is that?
1:23.4	Because that's who Sean Sullivan sent the rundown to.
1:26.2	I texted him today.
1:27.2	I said, aren't you going to send the rundown for the show?
1:29.8	And he realized that he'd accidentally send it to somebody called David Cox.
1:33.3	So somewhere at Fox, there's a guy named David Cox
1:36.2	who yesterday received a email from Sean Sullivan
1:39.8	with a rundown for a soccer podcast with Alexi Lallos.
1:43.0	Wow, well listen, I mean to be fair, the last couple of weeks have been a little crazy.
1:47.4	We've been all over the map back and forth.
1:49.8	You and I have both been on the road.
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