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Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

USMNT roster drop & Does the best player in the world wear braces?

Alexi Lalas’ State of the Union Podcast

FOX Sports

Soccer, News, Sports, Sports News

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Alexi Lalas and David Mosse kick off the episode with Mauricio Pochettino’s Nations League roster drop. Six MLS based players got the call including Diego Luna, Patrick Agyemang, and Brian White. The squad will face Panama on March 20th. Over in the Champions League, Lamine Yamal led Barcelona’s romp over Benfica with a goal and assist. Is Yamal the best player in the world at just 17 years-old? Gio Reyna came on late in Dortmund’s win over Lille. They will meet Yamal and Barcelona in the UCL quarter finals. Julián Alvarez’s controversial double-kick snubbed Atletico from taking down Real Madrid and moving on. The CONCACAF Champions Cup action also heats up. MLS-sides answered back in leg 2, with three squads advancing to the quarterfinals thus far. Messi and Inter Miami wrap up the Round of 16 with a trip to Jamaica. (4:53) In #AskAlexi the guys answer questions on Gio Reyna’s next steps and Manchester United’s new roofed stadium. To wrap Alexi acknowledges 2025 Colin Jose Media Award winner Bob Ley. USMNT roster drop (4:53) Champions League action: Yamal leads Barcelona romp (16:22) USMNT Abroad (40:06) CONCACAF Champions Cup: Messi travels to Jamaica (42:19) #AskAlexi (52:42) One for the Road: Bob Ley wins 2025 Colin Jose Media Award (63:16) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

When you put the numbers up, whether it's Messier or Ronaldo, what they did when they first started their career, even though they kind of burst on the scene and there was a lot of attention, they weren't putting up the numbers that Lamin Amal is doing right now. The

0:23.6

The Hello, Sunshin, I'm Alexi Lawless, and welcome to the State of the Union podcast.

0:45.6

We look at the beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red, white, and blue colored glasses.

0:49.1

This show will be talking, well, a USMNT roster drop.

0:53.7

Yamal's teen dream, Liverpool's tears, Julian's double tap, MLS's CCC response,

1:00.0

Manu's palace intrigue, beyond the towers, Bob the General Lee, 1971, and so much more.

1:06.4

But first, joining me as always my friend, my colleague, my guiding light, David Mossie,

1:10.3

a soccer savant and a Fox Soccer researcher and writer extraordinaire.

1:13.9

Monsi, how you doing on this Thursday, March 13th in the year 2025?

1:19.3

I'm doing well after a couple of late nights covering the Konkakav Champions Cup.

1:23.8

I am back at it here for the pod.

1:25.5

All sorts of action going on.

1:27.1

We will get into that. Have you

1:28.4

watched Red or seen anything or want to talk about anything interesting in your life beyond the

1:33.8

ball? The one thing I've got is I watched this eight-part Apple TV documentary. In 1971,

1:41.6

the year that music changed everything. Now, as I'm sure you know, 1971 is often held up as one of the great years in the history of music.

1:49.5

Marvin Gay, what's going on?

1:51.3

Joni Mitchell Blue, Rolling Stone Sticky Fingers, The Who Who's Next?

1:55.9

Zeppelin Four.

1:57.1

All sorts of legendary albums came out that year.

1:59.7

But this documentary juxtaposes all that with what was going on in the world,

2:04.1

the Vietnam War, civil rights, and all the rest.

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