USMNT set Olympic roster, Chris Richard’s goal to win 2026 World Cup for USA, North London Derby, Messi-Ronaldo out of Champions League and their future clubs.

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

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4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Alexi and Mosse open the show discussing final USMNT’s U-23 Olympic roster and preview match vs. Costa Rica (8:30). The guys then talk about Chris Richard’s goal to win the 2026 World Cup. Yunus Musah picks to represent USA over England, and Orlando City’s decision to reject a $10 million offer for, Daryl Dike, from a top English team. They look at the rest of the world and chat about the Champions League, North London Derby, Cristiano Ronaldo’s future in Italy and breaking Pele’s record (37:10), COVID impact on the state of rivalries games over the weekend, and PSG players’ families held hostage by thieves during the game. They Looked at #AskAlexi, where fans asked about Alexi’s best teammates he wants in a bar fight, Altidore being the number one striker for USMNT, and Meghan and Harry. (1:05:30). Finally, Alexi caps the show with his “One for the Road” on star players getting benched (1:15:12) 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. I'm Alexi Lollis, and welcome to the State of the Union
0:03.8	podcast where we look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of
0:07.2	red white and blue colored glasses. This week we'll be talking Olympics,
0:11.4	Musa, Champions League, the Loss of Passion, D.K. Rinaldo, Private Benjamin, Megan,
0:18.8	Harry, Josie, Iggy, and so much more. But first joining me as always my friend, my colleague my guiding light,
0:26.5	David Mossy, a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary.
0:31.2	Mossy how are you on this Monday, March 15th in the year 2021?
0:37.0	I am doing well, although I must confess,
0:40.0	it was a bit of a mixed bag for the stat man this past weekend.
0:44.3	What happened buddy?
0:46.3	Do you want to start with the good or the bad?
0:48.9	I always like to start with the bad.
0:51.1	Well, it's March, which means it's NCA tournament time. It gets
0:55.3	underway later this week. Michigan had a terrific regular season. We are a
1:00.6	one seed in the East region. We would have been one of the top contenders to win the national title,
1:06.9	but we found out this weekend our star player, senior forward Isaiah Livers, is likely to miss the tournament due to an ankle injury which took all the wind out of my sails.
1:17.0	I was so excited for this tournament this year and now I think we'll be lucky to get to the Sweet 16.
1:22.0	Does your ranking, is it based on something I think we'll be lucky to get to the sweet 16.
1:22.6	Does your ranking, is it based on something that you did?
1:25.7	I mean, for example, this ankle injury,
1:28.6	would this have happened after they were seated in that place?
1:32.1	No, the news broke before, so there was some question about whether the committee would take that into
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