USMNT faces Gold Cup group of death, Playmaker Pulisic, Tillman gets hot

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

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🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Alexi Lalas and David Mosse kicked off today’s show breaking down the CONCACAF Gold Cup draw. The U.S. Men’s National Team will face Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, and Saudi Arabia in the group stage. The guys shared their power rankings and where they think the USMNT will stack up against the competition. This weekend abroad, Americans were scoring all over Europe. Christian Pulisic bagged his 10th assist of the season off a corner. Will he be able to transfer this service to the national team? Malik Tillman, Cameron Carter-Vickers, and Chris Richards all scored spectacular goals for respective clubs. Champions League quarterfinals also roll on this week, Real Madrid and Dortmund have big deficits to overcome. Back stateside, Brian White went off with four goals in Vancouver’s dominant performance. He became the Whitecaps first player in club history to record 50 regular season goals. (5:32) In #AskAlexi the duo answered questions on Noah Allen selecting to play for Greece over the United States, and MLS deferring its calendar change. Alexi recapped his visit to TCU’s Film, Television, and Digital Media department to wrap the show. (46:58) CONCACAF Gold Cup draw & power rankings (5:32) USMNT Abroad (16:53) Champions League preview (34:57) MLS recap: Brian White scores FOUR (41:49) #AskAlexi: MLS calendar change (46:58) One for the Road (56:20) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.8	Excludes Sasser Express.
0:30.3	Not winning the Gold Cup will be a failure.
0:33.0	I will say the silver lining, if Dortmund are out on Gio,
0:35.9	then he ought to be able to play in the Gold Cup rather than him sit on the bench. Or do you think that Christian Polisic just somehow
0:41.4	hits balls differently when he's playing for A.C. Milan, because it is rather frustrating to American
0:46.3	soccer fans to see him doing this on a consistent basis with Milan and that not being able to
0:51.1	translate into the nationally. Well, the good news I was going to say, McKenny did have the over Uvei 1.5 in this game.
0:56.8	Oh, Sunshine. I'm Alexi Lollison. Welcome to the State of the Union podcast. We look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red, white, and blue colored glasses. This show will be talking the gold Cup draw, UCL second leg preview, Chicago is
1:31.3	messy's kind of town, MLS kicking the calendar down the road. Let's see, molding young
1:36.6	broadcasters, the last of us, choosing your country, Brian White going off, CCB from downtown,
1:44.0	Weston's safe bet, and so much more. But first,
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