Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
CONCACAF Nations League Loss: USMNT Reactions & Concerns
25 Mar 2025
For the first time ever, the U.S. Men’s National Team failed to with the CONCACAF Nations League. On Unfiltered Soccer, Landon Donovan and Tim Howard discuss their disappointment in the attitude of the players, as well as their thoughts on some of head coach Mauricio Pochettino’s starting eleven. Our hosts cover both Thursday’s semifinal loss to Panama in stoppage time, and the 2-1 loss to Canada in Sunday's third place match. They talk Diego Luna’s stunning performance, Gio Reyna’s fighting attitude, and the lack of leadership in the locker room. Plus, in the AT&T Fan Connection, the guys discuss former USMNT players giving the current roster a pep talk, the lack of fan turnout in the Nations League, and what is riding on this summer’s Gold Cup competition. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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There's no divine right to win a game. You have to go earn it.
They have to win the Gold Cup. After the Gold Cup's over, there's no more competitive games prior to the World Cup. Does anybody understand that?
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LD, what's happening, bud? Usually we have a little bit of banter at the top. Today feels like a day of mourning. We're not going to banter. No banter for me, bud. There's a lot. No. This is CONCACAF Nations League wrap-up, and it's not a lot of fun. It's not a lot of fun. I'm going to start us off.
by reading a quote from none other than yourself that went viral because people like to hear unfiltered takes. And you said after the game, I'm sick of hearing how talented this group of players is and all the amazing clubs they play for. If you aren't going to show up and actually give a shit about playing for your national team, decline the invite. Talent is great. Pride is better.
On that note, I'm going to let you go.
Let me just... You know when you go through either a breakup or a hard time, or you go through all the emotions, right? And so I was expecting this morning, because last night was the Canada game. I was expecting to wake up much more calm, much more relaxed. And I'm like, I'm frustrated.
as someone who dedicated not only his adult life, but his entire life to helping soccer grow, as you did, at the attitude and the demeanor and the effort. Now, I want to be careful because words matter. There were players on the field who cared, okay? But caring about playing a sport that you get paid to do should be the absolute bare minimum. The absolute bare minimum.
Just give a shit about actually playing. But when you play for your national team, and I have chills just talking about this right now, there is such a responsibility. You know what we used to do, Tim? One of my first trips ever with the national team, we went to South Korea. because we were going to play in the World Cup. I was on that trip. So we went the year before. And we went to the DMZ.
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