Welcome in Clay Travis wins and losses for those of you who have not listened before we've done a lot of these

I think over 40 now and the idea is these are long-form conversations

Not a lot of commercial breaks, but that will be just as good if you listen to them today as if you listen to them in five or ten years

And we're exploring the idea of the wins and losses that exist over the course of

Someone's career can be in sports business media can even be a big story in general

Just a really fun conversation allowing you to be a little bit more in-depth than you might be able to on television or certainly in a quicker radio interview

And our guest today is a guy that I have been watching since I was a very young man

Alexi Wallace one of the most famous American soccer players of all time recently returned from

2022

World Cup. I guess technically it was the 2021 World Guard. Yeah, 2022 all the years run together out in Qatar

Which I believe is the way you're supposed to pronounce it

Alexi if you recovered from being on the road for that long in Qatar in the Middle East for the most recent World Cup

Well, I can keep my years straight. What is going on with you? Are you okay my man?

Holy I'm getting to be an old man. I know we just moved into a new year, but they all run together

Well, look I know we live in interesting times

It's been a hell of a what say last three years or something like that, but yeah, so

2022 in November, December we were in Qatar and yes, we decided to call it Qatar and

A wonderful success from a box perspective and a broadcast perspective but also from a soccer perspective

One of the great World Cup especially when it comes to the final and look you you follow sports

Finals can often be real let down and this was anything

But as a matter of fact is a lot of people that believe that that's final with France and our Argentina and ultimately

Messi holding up that trophy was the greatest filing World Cup history

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