This team is made up of talented, interesting, smart, and funny women.

It's full of wonderful and diverse personalities, characters, and stories.

These are in bold and athletes

unafraid to be themselves, to use their voice and platform

to stand up for what they believe in,

to highlight what they see as injustice,

and to motivate and inspire young and old with their actions on and off the field.

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

When 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 about the US women's national team we

will have our Mossy Makes the Case segment about fans lowering their

expectations we will answering your questions in our

hashtag ask Alexi segment with a bunch of women's world cup stuff and so much more but

first as always joining me my friend my colleague my guiding light David Mossy a fox soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary

how are you mossy I am good Lexi last week I experienced a roller coaster of emotions.

Lay it on me my man.

Because you're a lover, not a fighter, I know that about you.

On Tuesday morning I saw a bunch of tweets alluding to the fact that Foxports Digital had won an

Emmy for its World Cup coverage and I immediately reached out to

Alex Dow to ask, hey Alexi and I co-hosted a podcast during the World Cup that

was available on all the Fox Sports digital platforms.

Does that mean we won an Emmy?

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