Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollus and welcome in the State of the Union

podcast. Well we look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the

lens of red weight in color glasses. This is a special live pod coming to you. Post USA Panama, a Dossocero, 2-0 win for the United States and

want to know when it comes to Powettino we are recording here on

live on Saturday October 12th. My good friend and my colleague and my

guiding light David Mossy normally would be with me here but I'm sure you will forgive him he is

at the Billy Joel concert tonight so I look forward to hearing from him seeing how that went.

He's a big Billy Joel fan.

And, but, if not, he would be here.

So you're gonna have me solo tonight.

Again, if you would like to talk, just hit that little button and that little blue light will show up.

And it will indicate to me that you have something, I'm sure, incredibly valuable to say.

And I will hit it, and I'll do it one at a time. We're not going to do any kind of

lalapalooza type of thing here. Make sure that we give you the time that you need, but you know, try to be efficient.

Economy of words to be efficient.

Economy of words would be appreciated.

So we come on air here after a two nothing win.

At halftime I think I had posted that we didn't see anything new. There

was not anything new I think on the field except this and this one thing US one and I'm not saying

that you know to be a jerk I'm saying that because Morichopo Chetino the new head

coach has made it very very clear that he is going to take a much more pragmatic approach to this team.

And so while this is not a game that is going to be put into a time capsule,

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