Hello Sunshine I'm Alexi Lollison, welcome to the State of the Union

podcast presented by State Farm. We come to you again here from Doha

Qatar site of the 2022 World Cup.

And we come to you on the eve after.

Well, we've already gone into the next day.

So I guess it's the day after the United States

as they bow out of this tournament and lose 3-2-1.

We have guests, of course David Mossy joining me, and Landon Donovan has agreed to stop by. We work today all day on this.

Thank you for hanging out with this.

My pleasure. Anything for Mossy.

This gives us a little time to kind of breathe and talk a little bit more about this result and like it sucks it sucks anyway you slice it going out of the World Cup it sucks

it doesn't matter when it happens but this was kind of a DUD performance against the Netherlands. I think we all expected more from the U.S.

Losing isn't in and of itself isn't necessarily a problem.

But for me, the big problem and what really hurts is that the way

in which this team went out was not some sophisticated evolved type of team and concept that the US had never seen before

and wasn't able to combat it was really ended up being kind of simple stuff that

did the US team in. I guess initial

thoughts on this on this result, Landon and then we'll go to you, Mossy because I

know you were watching avidly. Yeah you said it best best it wasn't like we were overwhelmed by some juggernaut Dutch team that had the ball the whole game and piled on pressure and we finally cracked.

It was a few, I don't even know if you call mistakes,

it was a few basic things we expect our players

at this level to do.

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