USMNT’s Perfect Window: Julian Hall, Cavan Sullivan, Young Stars Shine | Unfiltered Soccer

Landon Donovan (0:01)

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Tim Howard (0:15)

Soccer with Landon and Tim, presented by Volkswagen. Thanks for sticking around. It's late on the East Coast. I mean, it's late, but here we go. And here we are. Just finished watching US Canada. How you doing, bro?

Landon Donovan (0:30)

Timmy, what's up? Full disclosure, I'm a few glasses of wine deep.

That game needed a few glasses.

Tim Howard (0:39)

Man.

Landon Donovan (0:39)

End of the window. I know, I know, I know you hate it. I get it, I get it.

Tim Howard (0:43)

Everyone's tired and worn out. Hopefully FIFA's watching. We're done. We're done with these four match windows.

Landon Donovan (0:48)

No, they're not done.

They're not done. I like it. I like it. Good to me.

Tim Howard (0:52)

We used 35 players today.

We made, how many subs? It was crazy. It was crazy.

Landon Donovan (0:58)

A lot. It's experience.

By the way, do you know what show this is?

Tim Howard (1:06)

Tell me.

Landon Donovan (1:06)

Last show of our second season. Yeah.

Tim Howard (1:10)

All right.

Landon Donovan (1:11)

You know, when this started, I kind of thought I was like, this might last like four episodes. Nobody's going to listen.

Tim Howard (1:16)

Most people thought that.

Landon Donovan (1:17)

I know. But here we are.

Tim Howard (1:19)

This one felt long because of the World Cup, like having the World Cup smack in the middle.

Landon Donovan (1:23)

This was a lot. This was a lot.

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Tim Howard (1:43)

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Landon Donovan (1:47)

I mean, whatever. Within reason.

Okay. So, and as always, you can email Jordan feedback at unfilteredsoccer.com. We released a little snippet with Chicharito. A lot of people love that. We love the interview. It was amazing. It's an incredible interview. The rest of it is coming out on Tuesday.

He talked a lot about their perspective again, like we talked about on US-Mexico rivalry. Who he placed on his Mount Rushmore Mexican Soccer was really interesting. To hear him speak about why was really, really interesting to me. And then his meeting with Alex Ferguson was so good to hear his story when he first got to Man United and why his dad walked away from the meeting and said, you must give everything for that man. It was really, really fun. So everyone, you're going to love that. That is Tuesday. Make sure you guys listen, tell your friends about it. Anyone who's paid attention to this rivalry for a long time, you'll really appreciate that.

All right, let's jump in. So I want to gloss over a little bit of this match because it was a little bit, I don't know, just it was messy and weird lineup and choppy and whatever. But Tim, four games against four solid teams, not amazing teams, but four solid teams and four wins. I think that's like in the end, I think that's the biggest takeaway because sometimes you play these games, you don't win. And so that from Pochettino's standpoint, he must be ecstatic.

Tim Howard (3:17)

When you roll the ball out and the whistle blows, you have to win. So they've done well.

I think the exercise from his standpoint is good, even though I don't love the four match window, it just gets an opportunity to, he doesn't ever get his players this long, maybe for World Cup, but you're wrapping them in cotton wool. You know what I mean? This was an opportunity, he probably pushed them in training. He got a lot of minutes out of them, got to see them. So we are gonna sort of gloss over the US Canada match. What I would say, and you know how much I love Jesse Marsh, and you know how much I love this sort of rivalry where I think Canada's getting better.

I think I have it on our rundown. The fouls were 21 to 21 Okay, there was a lot of fouls. But Canada's gotta make a fist of it. They gotta make, like, US Mexico, you can't manufacture that. That's real. But at some point, Landon, and you know this, you have Canadian blood, there was too many laughs and hee-hees and ha-ha and helping people up.