Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Club & International Coaching with guest Bruce Arena
22 Apr 2025
Bruce Arena is an American soccer LEGEND! On Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard, the guys are joined by current San Jose Earthquakes head coach Bruce Arena to discuss his coaching career, the current state of the U.S. Men’s National Team, and what he sees as the future for soccer in America. Our hosts also discuss an INCREDIBLE quarter final round of Champions League competition, plus BREAKING news about Carlo Ancelotti’s future at Real Madrid. In the AT&T Mailbag, Tim & Landon are talking Major League Soccer from New England to San Diego and what’s stopping the league from being the BEST in the WORLD! New episodes of Unfiltered Soccer with Landon and Tim drop every Tuesday. Subscribe to the show on YouTube and follow on all your favorite podcast platforms. For bonus content and to send your mailbag questions in to the show, follow on all social media platforms @UnfilteredSoccer. (https://www.unfilteredsoccer.com). Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard is presented by Volkswagen. Learn more at https://bit.ly/4g8bZG3. Thank you to our additional sponsors: AT&T. Connecting Changes Everything. Visit https://att.com/guarantee to learn more. Coors Light. Choose Chill. Get Coors Light delivered. Go to CoorsLight.com/USLNT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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You know, if you look at every national team in the world, the coach is usually a domestic coach. When you have coaches that don't know our culture, our environment, our players, it's hard. I mean, I'm watching, I'm shocked that we can't beat Panama and Canada. Time is running out and they got to get going.
Unfiltered Soccer with Landon and Tim presented by Volkswagen. Volkswagen has long been a supporter of soccer in America and has proudly been a partner of U.S. Soccer for the past five years.
Welcome in, everybody. to another edition of Unfiltered Soccer. We keep saying we have amazing guests and sometimes you are in the presence of greatness and we are honored and humbled. And Landon, I'm going to let you do this intro because our next guest is very special to both of us, but I know your history and so I'll let you take it away.
Yeah, before we get to that, just a reminder, always follow us on social media at Unfiltered Soccer. Subscribe to the show on YouTube. Make sure you follow Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts. Please leave a review. And you can also email us, and there's going to be lots of questions after this week. Feedback at unfilteredsoccer.com.
This is a man who has been much more than a coach to me. He has been a father figure, a reference point for me through many, many years. He's probably absolutely hated me at times, absolutely. Loved me at times, but we've had an incredible relationship through the years. We've referenced him a lot on the pod. Without further ado, I welcome in Mr. Bruce Arena. Welcome, Bruce.
Hi, Bruce. That was very nice of you to say, Tim. Good to see you as well. Two great people.
not only great players but great people so it's great to see that you're you're still in the forefront of the of the game in our country and you mean a lot to a lot of people your voices are heard and we really appreciate everything you've done uh for the game in our country thank you we appreciate that yeah you are you're a living legend and um it's just great to have you on great to see you back kicking ass in the mls so uh this is this is going to be a fun episode
So Bruce, let's jump in. I want to take people back just to start. So I find in our country now there are a lot of new soccer fans, which is great, but they have no context of the history and what this sport has been through. And for Tim and me, We reference it basically from 2000 on, but you've seen it from much earlier days on. And we were just reminiscing about the early days with DC United.
Last weekend, you guys beat DC 6-1 in what was a commemorative game for the 30th year. First of all, can you remember back that far to that first game and what it was like then and what the league was like then in 96?
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