Diego Luna lives the dream, Crystal Palace finally lifts a trophy and its MLS Rivalry Week
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Who is Diego Luna and why is he important in soccer?
Real Salt Lake and U.S. men's national team rising star Diego Luna. Diego, you have this dog and this nastiness about you. You've got this tenacity to want to prove yourself.
I'm the kid, you know, that didn't really come from much. For me, it was always, you know, fighting for what I wanted, you know, needing to prove myself at any level and even on the soccer side.
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.
Yes, LD, we are back with another episode of Unfiltered Soccer. A funny old thing happened this week for our listeners. Landon and I, when we do promotional stuff and sponsored elements for Unfiltered Soccer, we will oftentimes have to travel. And so Landon so graciously comes east to New York where I am oftentimes. And every now and again, I have to go West. So.
Well, every now and again, you mean once.
So I, I, I, I trekked all the way out to San Diego, which by the way is God's country. I've heard that.
It's amazing.
And we ended up doing the, it was a very complex shoot. So we had staggered start times and they were so staggered. But I was there for three days and didn't see Landon, didn't invite me for dinner. I'll tell you a funny story, though. And you know, there's my one of my best, best friends in the world lives a couple of streets down. And I was like, do I do I ring and run? Do I go to Landon's house? Ring the bell, and I thought, security, dogs, they'll all attack me.
No, you don't want to mess with my house, dude.
It's more my wife. You don't want to mess with my wife. Yeah, true. San Diego was awesome, man. It was fun.
What challenges did Diego Luna face growing up?
Beautiful place, huh?
Yeah.
What a place.
I see why you don't leave.
No, I can't leave. The only reason I'm leaving is to go play golf. I'm leaving today for Jamaica. It's amazing. Boys trip, golf trip. Can't wait. So let's get this thing done.
For any of our listeners, if you have the choice of coming back as anybody, come back as Landon. He's living a life that very few can. Well done. I worked hard, bud.
All right. Can we get this done so I can go? Let's roll. All right. As always, guys, follow us on social media, Unfiltered Soccer. Subscribe to the show. I just realized our subscribers are jumping lately. You must have said something funny. Fun. Interesting. Subscribe on YouTube. Make sure you follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts. You can leave a review, rate us. We had some good comments. I was looking at the comments. I think JR is going to get into it. Some good stuff this week. Some great stuff. And as always, email us at feedback at unfiltered soccer. All right, Timmy, Rivalry Week. Yes, in MLS. I love this. I didn't realize it actually until I kind of like started looking through my app to see the games.
Nothing like crazy from these rivalry games, but they were good. And I love this and I love this about soccer and I love this about sports. And these weeks are the best. I just loved it. I loved when I was with San Jose, we played LA. I loved when I was with LA, we played San Jose. I loved when I was with the galaxy, we played Chivas, um, had the fortune to play in the Merseyside Derby one time. Um, it's just fun. It's just different and it just feels different.
Yeah. I mean, when I got to, you know, how I think I've often said like the two Derbys that I played in were the Merseyside Derby and, um, USA, Mexico. And I'm like, dude, they, they, there are some great ones in the world. And I think I was very fortunate to play in two of them very often. And it's like, there's nothing like it. And then when I got to be fair, when I got to Colorado, I remember, I remember the Rocky mountain cup being a, being a thing and going into it. I was like, I've played in big rivalries. Like I'm not sure about this. And then I got there and there was some real, real hate. It was some real nastiness. I remember, I remember how loving the real Salt Lake crowd was towards me. I joke when I say that.
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