Stu Holden
speaker
484 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 6 Jul
Stu Holden’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He's the best player in the league. That doesn't default you into winning the Landon Donovan MVP award.
Yes, yes. Honored to make my debut, boys, in the podcast. I heard you talking about your sponsors, Volkswagen. But Timmy, is that a Louis Vuitton soccer ball up there? Are you trying to speak a little Louis?
I would have thought you did by the amount of bags you have. Oh, come steamrolling in, my guy. How you been, bro? Everything good? I'm good, man. You know, I was at Dignity Health Sports Park for the Galaxy win on Saturday. So it was fun to see the Galaxy back, and it was a great buzz in that building. But otherwise, man, you know, I'm being soccer dad.
I know you boys are both soccer dads as well. I'm running around from soccer practice to dance to gymnastics. Like, this was a nice break. I actually, by being on this podcast today, I get to skip school runs. So if we could film for like two hours. That would be great. Weekly guest. Yeah. Weekly guest, 7 a.m. Thanks. Sorry, Kara. You can do a daily shoot. Amazing. Landon, you done gloating?
Have you had like, you know, 48 hours?
Okay. Well, I'm going to go grab my tooth if you give me a second.
Hey, Tim, I was also just wondering, like, are Landon and like Ricky Poods, are they like the same human at this point? I mean, they're wearing each other's shirts. Ricky comes out for the parade. He's got Landon's shirt on. Landon came out with Ricky's shirt. It's gross.
It's absolutely gross. I get it. We get it.
I don't know what you expected here, Landon. I don't know what you expected having me on.
Yeah, I actually thought the first half was a really good game. You know, we had the two goals from the Galaxy, I think in a neutral, well, not a neutral venue. Once MLS got away from the neutral venue, it really was to incentivize teams in the regular season. And so you get to host Cup and it's a huge advantage. I thought the crowd was fantastic. As we said, just jokingly a minute ago,
The Galaxy were back, but in order to truly be back, they had to win that game. And so I think there was a bit of pressure for LA. I think the fans were a little antsy as well about knowing that they needed to win the finals. So having that early goal in the ninth minute, what a goal it was.
I wasn't really sure how the Galaxy would look without Ricky Pooj in a big final where I knew New York were going to defend. They played with five in the back. But Brookman and Delgado and Serio, I thought were fantastic, the three midfielders. And that was kind of the unknown. You knew Paints was going to get chances. You knew Gabriel Peck was going to be dangerous on the right.
And then Jovilich has been just a total stud up front, 20 goals on the season and 21st. And I just love how he told us in an interview, we interviewed him post-game 2019, and he was saying, I am the future of the galaxy. And he knew if he got that opportunity... He was going to score goals. And so I just thought the Galaxy got on top of them early. New York Rebel looked a little shell-shocked.
And then second half, they kind of came back into it. But then I was impressed that the Galaxy had to show another side of their soccer. And they want to just beat you 5-4 as opposed to 2-0 and shut the game down. But they did really kind of shut it down. And Greg made some good defensive subs. And they were deserving winners, I thought, on the balance of the full game.
You know, we, as we do on the broadcast, you meet with the coaches and players the day before. And I asked him, I said, when you took this job in 2021- Did you ever doubt that you could get back here with the Galaxy? And he'd done it with Toronto and he came in and he was going to be the guy that was going to flip this team and this franchise around. And man, you referenced it, Landon.
We called many a Greg Vanney's games over the last couple of years and I just saw a guy sometimes that looked exhausted and he's getting it from every angle and his big stars get injured. Chicharito tears his ACL and yada, yada, like everything that could have gone wrong for him, I think went wrong, but it also goes hand in hand. And I, I'm interested in your thoughts on this land.
And as we also met with Will Koontz and, you know, I think he deserves a ton of credit because the fans walked out and, you know, they demanded change and they felt what was in the front office at that point. And the way the club was going was inadequate and it was in the wrong direction and they demanded change.
They got changed, but you also know when it's, when it's a coach, the coach is also only as good as his players, uh, oftentimes on the field. And I think Greg, we all know Greg Vanney is a very good coach, but clearly that wasn't manifesting on the field and winning cups. All of a sudden you bring in a good GM, sign the right players, all the pieces come together and he's able to win.
So I just think like, For the Galaxy too, Tim, you talked about it. They're used to it was Beckham, Donovan, Keane, Ibrahimovic, Chicharito. It was always kind of the big stars. I would argue, I mean, Ricky Pooj, he played at Barcelona, but he wasn't like the big star. I think the Galaxy have changed their ethos, but yet have still found a different way to be successful.
And in today's MLS, I'm curious what both of you guys feel about this. Yeah. I don't know. What's more important, to have the stars and to have in a city like LA and try to stand out a little bit? Or is winning championships clearly going to be more effective for the Galaxy brand? I think winning championships is winning. Yeah. You can do it both, ideally.
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