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

podcast presented by State Farm. I come to you yet again live here from Doha guitar on banks of the Bay of Doha here and our Fox Sports

Amazing set and we got another game or another day of games and so we will

go through it before I do that I always give you my update on my friend David

Mossy he assures me that he will be available and joining us tomorrow.

He's not here tonight. I will tell you a quick story at the end of this about David Mossy and

his growing legions of fans and international fans. It's pretty it's pretty amazing right now. Well, it's not pretty amazing. I totally understand it. We all love David, but he will be with us tomorrow. Okay, let's get right into it because really some

interesting games and some interesting results. Costa Rica Japan, Costa Rica,

and totally redeem yourself.

All right?

Narrative after the first game, they get completely annihilated

7-0 by Spain, Costa Rica,

I called it a shameful performance, I called it an embarrassment not just to Costa Rica

and Costa Rica soccer, but ultimately to Kakaaf.

But we talked all day about this pendulum,

this World Cup pendulum that swings

and changes perspective and changes the narrative.

And just like that, little old Costa Rica

who we had all written off, they come back

against another other than Japan who had just beaten Germany and they get themselves a

one-nothing victory.

And they do it in a very Costa Rican way.

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