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

podcast, a special live student union podcast where we look at the beautiful game

on and off the field of the

PODCAS. We look at the beautiful game on and off the field of the lens of red-white and blue colored glasses.

As I said, this is a special live pod coming to you post-USA versus Germany.

Joining me, as always, my friend my colleague my guiding my David

Mossy a soccer savant and a Fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary

all right mossy I think you're doing well it's is the weekend as I said we just finished watching

this USA Germany game. First off can you hear me Maussi? Just want to make sure you're

there. Loud loud. Okay good. Just want to make sure. Initial thoughts, I got plenty of notes here, initial thoughts from a result standpoint,

not something that is going to look good in the papers.

Papers, by the way, for all your youngans are things that

used to come out every, pretty much every day and we used to get them in the morning and

read them. So the headlines tomorrow will be the United States loses to Germany.

In what has to be said is probably the first real test of

this US men's national team post-Katar in German former world champions and all that and I think on the day the stronger team with more talent that ultimately showed

but I think you also have to kind of segment this game into first half

and second half, which is something

we'll probably do going forward. So not a great result, but certainly some things

to build on, but I will say this right as we start Mossy, and I don't want to speak for anybody on this

call and if you do want to talk by the way you just hit that little button the blue

light shows up and it tells me that you do have something to say hopefully

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