Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
Galaxy Final-Bound Sans Puig, Pep's 6 Losses in 7 Games, and the Truth About Klinsmann
Tue, 03 Dec 2024
The NY Red Bulls will face the LA Galaxy in the MLS final this weekend! On Unfiltered Soccer, Landon Donovan and Tim Howard dive straight into the MLS Conference Finals between NY Red Bull and Orlando City and LA Galaxy and Seattle Sounders, plus what will the Galaxy do without Riqui Puig? Tim’s got some STRONG feelings about how American players are treated in European leagues and Landon throws some COLD water on players who say playing in Europe is the dream. In the mailbag, the guys discuss caps, favorite teammates, and the TRUTH about Jurgen Klinsmann’s time as the USMNT head coach. 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. (www.flowcode.com/page/unfilteredsoccer). Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard is presented by Volkswagen. Learn more at https://bit.ly/4g8bZG3. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the key highlights from the MLS Conference Finals?
So they would come into the lunchroom and our manager or director of ops would come in and hand... the players, the cap. So like Phil Jagielka or whomever we play with, if they had 50 international caps, they physically have 50 hats, which is, I think, amazing.
They inscribe the date and all that. I wonder why that started. Somebody leave us a comment. Tell us why that started. Totally. I'm curious. All right. So that's it.
I kept a clean sheet that game against Argentina and Messi played.
Appreciate that, pal. You're welcome. He only played 45, but appreciate that. So did I.
All right. How about a little talk about the LA Galaxy since you guys were talking about them earlier. So Mario on YouTube said there are rumors of the LA Galaxy getting Lewandowski next season. So the last couple of seasons, LA has really switched things around by going after young players in their prime. Do you think they should go for a player like Pepe instead?
LA has not had a high caliber US men's national team player since some guy named Landon Donovan retired. And I think we need that representation in the biggest soccer city in the world. Who asked that? Mario on YouTube.
Mario, love it. I love, I love Lewandowski, but Pepe would be a hundred times better for a hundred different reasons. So for me, by the way, Jovalich is doing the job, so no need to bring someone in over him, but Uh, I love it. I would bring, I would bring peppy in all day long.
Yeah. I mean, unsurprising that LA galaxy are linked to a global superstar. Um, cause that's just what they do, which is what top teams do. It's true. Um, the, the peppy argument is interesting cause for me and we both are in, uh, um,
some pretty big mls circles i do think there's a lot of value and i've said this for a while in building your team your current team around a current mexican national team player and u.s national team player and i know that's going to cost and there's balance in terms of how much that costs but if you think about the landscape of the league if you were able to get um a current us player and a current mexican player and putting them putting them on the same team and building around them
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Chapter 3: How do American players fare in European leagues?
some pretty big mls circles i do think there's a lot of value and i've said this for a while in building your team your current team around a current mexican national team player and u.s national team player and i know that's going to cost and there's balance in terms of how much that costs but if you think about the landscape of the league if you were able to get um a current us player and a current mexican player and putting them putting them on the same team and building around them
I think that's pretty special. So anyway, we're not there yet, but Pepe would be a great shot.
Okay, who else do we have? Evan on YouTube wants to know, who are the top three players you guys have played with on a club level? One for each general position, defense, midfield, and striker.
Ooh, club. Okay. On a club level? All right, striker for me is easy, Robbie Keane. Midfielder, I didn't play much, but Frank Ribéry from Bayern Munich. He was so elite. And Lucio from Bayern Munich as well. And Bayer Leverkusen. Old Brazilian center back. Lucio. Remember Lucio?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he was at Bayern Munich for a while. Yeah, he was. He was a tank. That's strong. That's a good one.
Sorry, Everton fans. So defensively, Rio Ferdinand. I mean, Rio Ferdinand was one of the greatest defenders in the world. Midfield... I think when he first came as a midfielder, so Ronaldo. Oh, geez. And then up top, Wayne Rooney. I think we could just drop the mic.
Sorry, say that again.
So it was Rio Fernandes in the back.
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