Pulisic breaks Guardian’s 100 Best Footballers, McKennie & Tillman shine, Netflix wins Women’s World Cup rights

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

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Soccer, News, Sports, Sports News

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Alexi Lalas and David Mosse unpack The Guardian’s Best 100 Male and Female Footballers. Christian Pulisic is the only American male to make the list, but is ranked at a lowly number. While on the women’s side, five of the USWNT players are ranked in the top ten, Sophia Smith coming in at number three. Kicking it to the USMNT abroad, Weston McKennie and Malik Tillman star on the weekend with a goal apiece. Brenden Aaronson and Johnny Cardoso also get on the scoresheet in their teams respective wins. The guys answer a pair of questions in #AskAlexi on the weight of USWNT players competing in Europe in comparison to the men, and Netflix’s FIFA Women’s World Cup broadcast coming in 2027 and 2031. To wrap the show Alexi shares his thoughts on elevating young players to the next level. 100 Best Male Footballers (5:25) 100 Best Female Footballers (13:21) USMNT Abroad (15:33) Mosse's Match of the Week (33:34) #AskAlexi (35:15) One For the Road (43:37) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This holiday season, Amazon brings you an unmissable month of festive football.
0:07.6	What a fantastic night of football.
0:10.5	Including Tuesday's UEFA Champions League must watch match.
0:14.5	It doesn't get much better than that.
0:16.6	And ten Premier League games.
0:19.6	This week, watch Wolves versus Man United United, Liverpool versus Lester, and eight other Premier League games.
0:28.2	It's on Prime.
0:30.3	Make that transition from being a good American player to being a good player who just happens to be American.
0:36.4	And that's not easy.
0:37.7	And Christian Polisic did this without a doubt.
0:39.9	It may be better than anybody has in history.
1:14.1	Thank you. Hello, Sunshine.
1:15.6	I'm Lexi Lollison. Welcome to the State of the Union podcast.
1:17.7	We look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red, white, and blue colored glasses.
1:21.5	This show will be talking, oh, Weston.
1:23.8	Oh, yeah.
1:24.4	Some more Weston.
1:25.1	The farce that is the Guardian best 100 players, peppy in the money, potentially. The two Tillmans, geo back of the bench, playing out of the back, Mossie's museums, Netflix soccer, kids and soccer, football posers, Muppet Christmas, and so much more.
1:44.4	But first joining, as always my friend, my colleague, my guiding lights, David Mossy,
1:47.7	a soccer savant and a Fox Soccer researcher and writer extraordinaire.
1:51.7	Mossie, how are you doing on this Monday, December 23rd in the year 2024?
1:57.3	I'm doing very well.
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