Landon Donovan

How do we make the analysis pitch side count?

How do we make the one-on-one conversations count, et cetera?

I think, do I...

I love it at this stage of my life, I think I would say.

I feel like if you'd have asked me five years ago, I wouldn't have been ready to be with them 20% of the time.

I was still very much in the thick of enjoying the club scene, whereas now...

I can't imagine ever going back.

I think I can totally appreciate what you're saying.

And I think had the, the world cup prior to me taking over being in a different place, um,

I think the opposite.

I think there was a decline happening in and around the game.

This wasn't just about the team.

And sometimes that's just transition.

Sometimes I always say this, we don't give enough credit to everybody else.

Like there's a declining us.

It's just everybody, the investment has increased elsewhere.

I think what I would say, and honestly, this is God's honest truth, being a parent now,

Probably been through, when you lose a parent, probably been through, and I mean this seriously, I went through a really bad hysterectomy and I thought, oh my goodness, life can be short.

All I kept thinking to myself was, oh my God, I've got the opportunity to do the one thing I've wanted to do my whole life, to coach this team.

Right, let's weigh it up.