Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the Union

podcast where we look at the beautiful game on and off the field for the

lens of red weight and blue colored glasses. This is yet another special

live pod post-USA versus Trinidad.

Now, ultimately from a scoreboard perspective,

a success and nothing that I don't think me or my friend David Mossy

wouldn't expect. But how that final score got to be I think is what is going to be

a lot of the talking speaking of him

Joining me as always is my friend my colleague in my guiding light David Mossier soccer savant and he fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary

Mossy how you doing on this Thursday evening, November 16th, in the year 2023.

I am doing well.

This is the warm-up act of my evening because I have to go in a couple hours from now to cover the

U17 World Cup. So lots of soccer. You're knee deep in soccer, my friend. I've had this discussion

before with others as can there be too much soccer

I don't think there can be but you are you certainly testing the bounds in terms of

your involvement obviously from a professional perspective.

Okay, let's get into it.

We are mere minutes away from the final whistle

of the US Trinidad game, a win.

And a win and but not a win that I think a lot of people mossy here on this call or who watched the game will walk away with a tremendous amount of confidence.

And I have to be careful and like I said I did breathe.

Namaste day before I came on so as not to lose my shit when it comes to this team that I know and love and

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