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.

This episode will be talking the U.S. men's national team, Wrexham, Geo Weston, Club World Cup,

the Center, Copa America, and so much more.

But first joining me as always, my friend, my colleague,

my guiding light, David Mossier, soccererkavant and a fox soccer researcher and writer

extraordinary mossi how are you doing on this Monday January 30th of the year

2023 I am doing well. Five years ago around this time you and I did our first

podcast together. It was the week of the Eagles Patriot Super Bowl.

Here we are.

Five years later, the Philadelphia Eagles back in the Super Bowl.

They will face the Kansas City Chiefs on Fox.

On Fox.

Big Super Bowl coming up.

I can't believe it's been five years, my friend. It just goes by like that,

but we've had a wonderful time and we thank everybody for joining us. If you've just joined us, great. If you've been around for five years,

that's even better now the the football

I watched the football this this Sunday both of the games and I come to see you know in the

in the in the Twitter sphere and the social media thing where everything evidently is decided Twitter right type of outrage and narrative to have right now.

You know, I rode the elevator with a security person and we struck up a conversation about the

Chief's Bengals, AFC title game and he felt like the Bengals got absolutely hosed several calls he disagreed with throughout the game.

Although he did say the late hit at the end of Mahomes was the correct call.

It's absolutely the correct call. All right. I watched that and I don't know a whole lot about football, but even I know that you're not supposed to do that.

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