Zack Steffen’s Man City Struggles: Do Americans Abroad Get Enough Playing Time?

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

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🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Alexi Lalas and David Mosse kick off the show with a look at all of the MLS action for the week including NYCFC's big win, Seattle's surprising loss vs. Inter Miami, and so much more (8:20). Then the guys discuss Matias Almeyda's departure from the San Jose Earthquakes, Matthew Hoppe's potential move to Atlanta, and the League Cup Showcase. We also cover all of the CONCACAF Champions League action and Alexi gives his reason why this is the year MLS team will win the competition. Later the guys breakdown at all of action in Europe's top 5 leagues including, the FA Cup Liverpool vs. Man City game, La Liga's officiating, and the Serie A title race (46:01). Next we check in on all of the UEFA Conference League, the Europa League and Champions League games over the last week. We answered your questions about Zack Steffen’s struggles at Man City, Alisson vs. Ederson, and try to find what sports stadium has the worst food in #AskAlexi (1:18:40). Finally, Alexi ends the show with a shout out to the United States's Paralympic soccer teams and wishes them good luck at the IFCPF World Cup tournament (1:43:45). What We've Been Watching: They Call Me Magic Clippers vs. Pelicans The Lost Leonardo Dirty Harry (film series) 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 podcast
0:04.4	where we look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of
0:07.4	red white and blue-colored glasses. This week we'll be talking Almeida
0:11.5	Dirty Harry Schmetzer, Tati, Da Vinci, Cheeseburgers, Kane,
0:17.2	Christiano, Stephan, UCL, CCL, Paraly, Paraly, Paralympic World Cup, and so much more.
0:22.0	But first joining me as always my friend my
0:24.1	colleague my guiding light David Mossy a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher
0:28.9	and writer extraordinary mossy how are you on this Monday, April 18th in the year 2022?
0:37.0	Doing well, a rare afternoon taping in the State of the Union Pondkine.
0:41.0	Are you going to be okay? I mean, this is going to be okay for you, right?
0:44.1	It's an adjustment for sure. It is, it is an adjustment. I have more notes than I usually have.
0:48.7	Yeah, a little time to wake up and actually prepare for this show.
0:54.0	What did you watch this week, my friend?
0:57.0	Well, I had a fun last Thursday night.
1:00.0	I'm going to make LA Lakers fans very jealous right now because I attended a
1:05.4	premiere for the new Magic Johnson Apple TV documentary. It's a four-part
1:11.9	documentary the first episode aired. It was terrific. I can't wait to watch the next three episodes, but the
1:17.6	Coolest thing about it is that for the hour or so before the showing started everybody was milling around it was at this theater in
1:24.4	Westwood everybody was milling around on the lobby and there were all these
1:27.3	celebrities there so the following people were all within a few feet of me at some
1:31.0	point in the evening magic Johnson Johnson, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Jerry West, Michael
1:36.4	Cooper, Jamal Wilkes, A.C. Green, Kurt Rambus, Derek Fisher, Gary Payton, Dave Winfield, Sugar Ray Leonard, Don Chido,
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