Landon Donovan

Okay, so how do we make the classroom count?

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.