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Maybe the best way to understand what Alexi Lalas understands as the North Star of his job is to understand the first commandment of media-trained figures in sports: Thou shalt avoid talking about Donald Trump in public.This goes for all sports, all the people adjacent to sports, liberal or conservative, American or otherwise.If asked, deflect, and certainly, under almost any circumstance imaginable, do not bring up the president unprompted, because this can only get people upset.Lalas breaks this rule, unasked.
He breaks it all the time, and does so toward the end of a conversation with The Post last month.“Regardless of your political affiliation, having the soccer that emanates out of the White House, out of the Oval Office, having a president that is engaged and recognizes the opportunity and the soft power of a World Cup, that’s a good thing,” Lalas told The Post during a promotional junket for Fox’s World Cup coverage.“Anybody would want that.”Lalas wasn’t making news here.
His politics are a matter of public record.What he understands, though — well enough to have made himself one of the faces of American soccer punditry despite a playing career that he’s happy to admit was fairly unremarkable — is that if Trump’s name is in the headline of this story, more people might read it.
How they react doesn’t concern him.And it’s not as if his beliefs aren’t sincere.Now apply the same logic to soccer, which is what Lalas talks about for a living.
He’s been a ubiquitous part of Fox’s coverage of the sport for more than a decade, having left ESPN to join the network ahead of the 2015 Women’s World Cup.Among fans of the sport — a decidedly left-leaning community — Lalas has, let’s say, a reputation.He’s happy to be critical of U.S.
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