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Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

World Cup Day 19 Recap: Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal STUNNED against Morocco & France survives!

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

FOX Sports

Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.21.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Day 19 of the 2022 FIFA World Cup brought plenty of action as Alexi Lalas, David Mosse and special guest Landon Donovan have you covered with all the content that you need presented by State Farm! Lalas, Mosse, and Donovan react to Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal's shocking exit to the 2022 FIFA World Cup after losing to Morocco. Lalas and Mosse then break down England's narrow loss to France and Harry Kane's shocking penalty miss. To wrap up the show, Lalas, Mosse, and Donovan look ahead to the FIFA World Cup Semifinals, featuring Morocco vs. France and Argentina vs. Croatia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:04.8

podcast presented by State Farm. We come to you as we have for the last

0:09.1

a month or so here from Doha Qatar at our Fox Sports set as we continue on with the World Cup.

0:18.0

Before we get to the soccer, I just wanted to mention once again, obviously the news of Grant Wall and his death has hit

0:26.6

us all heart here at the World Cup as it is hit around the world for all of his

0:31.1

friends and the soccer world especially the

0:33.8

American soccer world and I know you'll join me in continuing to send our

0:38.0

condolences and our love to him and his family and I think Rob Stone did a

0:42.0

wonderful job throughout the day coalescing and expressing all of our

0:46.7

sorrow and sadness at this loss of a true great when it comes to American soccer.

0:52.2

Joining me today is my good friend David Mossy and a

0:56.3

special guest, Landon Donovan. Yeah, a difficult day with regards to the news to Grant Wall.

1:04.2

I know a friend, obviously a colleague of all of ours for a number of years and as I said

1:09.4

just a huge, huge loss.

1:11.6

And he would have loved the games of soccer that we had today and he

1:16.2

would have screamed and yelled I know we all at different times have argued and

1:19.8

debated things on and off the soccer field with him and he loved a good argument and he made incredible points and I think the craziness that we continue to see at this World Cup would have been something that he would have loved to see.

1:32.3

So we're going to get into the soccer.

1:35.0

Obviously two games today and two, again,

1:38.0

crazy nutty games when it comes to the World Cup.

1:41.6

First off, because it's fresh, we just came over from our set over there. France and England. France goes through.

1:49.0

Just in and of itself France beating England isn't necessarily a surprise but I will tell you

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