Zlatan went up and challenged for a header with his elbows out wide.

And he elbowed L-A-F-C's Muhammad Elmunir.

He ended up fracturing El-Munir's face.

Now, Zlatan wasn't punished by the ref, wasn't punished by the MLS disciplinary

committee. But the problem isn't that Stars gets special treatment, that's part of all

pro sports. But you have to modify existing player behavior.

Hello, Sunshine.

I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome.

Welcome back to the State of the Union Podcast.

We look at the beautiful game on and off the field

through the lens of red white and blue colored glasses as you heard

We'll be talking's latan again in our mossy makes the case segment mossy is gonna be looking at the crisis question mark at realial Madrid in our ask Alexi segment we'll be talking about

stadiums and so much more but joining me as always is my friend my colleague my guiding light

David Mossy a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher and writer extraordinary

Mossy how are you welcome back my friend thank you it's good to be back and just to address the long layoff folks on top of all his other negative qualities Alexe doubt is also lazy Alexi and I have been ready to go for weeks

but Alex didn't want to interrupt his summer vacation so that's why

you're only hearing from us today. Well to be fair look we had you know our

as we always do our best laid plans and immediately we deviated from them.

We had hoped to have more of these,

and I am actually, I'm very thankful

and pleasantly surprised by the amount of people

that have been, I don't want to use the word clamoring,

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