20 years ago, the U.S. Women's National Team captured hearts and minds and

captivated our nation as they won the World Cup on home soil.

If you don't watch the women's game, that's too bad because you're depriving yourself or what can be a

really interesting piece of your soccer palette but regardless we can all appreciate

and take pride in what this group achieved in 1999.

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 through the lens of red, white and blue colored glasses.

As you heard, we'll be talking the legacy of

the 99ers. We'll have our Mossy Makes the Case segment or Mossy is going to be

talk about England declining the potential Euro super league. We'll be answering your

questions in our hashtag

Ask Alexi segment including discussing the potential move and or rebrand of the

Chicago Fire and so much more but first as always joining me me, my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, David Mossy, a soccer

savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinaire, Mossy, how are you?

I'm back in studio with you.

I missed a week being on the road, but it's great to see your beautiful face once again in studio in person.

I am good. This will be our final podcast before the season premiere of Game of Thrones. So that will be a big theme

moving forward. Get ready for that. So Game of Thrones is how many seasons in? What are we

looking at here in terms of this? Five, six, seven, eight, nine, nine ten seven that's that's that's

the peanut gallery seems to be throwing out seven yeah it's not done though

because obviously it's again and as you know my my steadfast rule is I do not watch unless I can binge the entire thing from start to finish.

And so when and if this series ever gets done, you tell me, and then I will watch it.

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