USMNT All-Time Player Draft | Unfiltered Soccer
5/15/202611 min
United States Men's National Team legends Landon Donovan and Tim Howard are drafting their all-time USMNT starting 11’s! Who’s going first overall? Who’s getting left out altogether? And who’s going to wind up with the better squad? Tune in to see which picks you love, which ones you question and which team you’re rolling with! 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, follow on all social media platforms @UnfilteredSoccer. Send your mailbag questions to feedback@unfilteredsoccer.com (https://www.unfilteredsoccer.com). This bonus content is brought to you by Coca-Cola and Carnival Cruise Line. Hot Takes, Cold Coke, Open Seas – your Carnival cruise is waiting! Visit Carnival.com/unfiltered and stay tuned for more information on how you could win a Carnival cruise! This episode of Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard was edited and mastered by Andrew Hartley, with engineering support from Eric Newell. Our producers are Jordan Rizzieri and Andrew Gundling. Our social media lead is Dan Armelli and our social editors are Kyle Curley and Finley Skelton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsTim Howard· Host0:00
[upbeat music] This bonus content is brought to you by Coca-Cola and Carnival Cruise Line. LD, I'm, I'm pumped about this. You and I- Same, same, same, same ... we're gonna do something a little bit different.
Landon Donovan· Host0:11
Mm-hmm.
Tim Howard· Host0:11
We're gonna draft our all-time US Men's National Team starting 11.
Landon Donovan· Host0:16
Love this.
Tim Howard· Host0:18
And then you all can tell us who has a stronger squad. Rules are, well, we're gonna flip a coin in a second to see who goes first.
Landon Donovan· Host0:23
Mm-hmm.
Tim Howard· Host0:23
Going first is important. Um, in the name of fairness, we'll go with a snake draft. All right?
Landon Donovan· Host0:29
Right. So if you pick first, then I get two in a row- Yeah ... and then you get two in a row, and then I get two- Yeah ... in a row, et cetera. Okay.
Tim Howard· Host0:34
For sure.
Landon Donovan· Host0:35
Okay.
Tim Howard· Host0:35
So, um, yeah, that's it. Flip a coin.
Landon Donovan· Host0:39
Well, it has to be, like, a real... Like, we can't have seven strikers and, like, it has to be a proper- It has a, a prop- proper formation ... a real formation.
Tim Howard· Host0:45
Yeah.
Landon Donovan· Host0:45
You choose the formation. Okay. You ready?
Tim Howard· Host0:48
Kinda. I mean, I'm go- Yeah. Okay.
Landon Donovan· Host0:50
What do you mean kinda? You can't have two center backs and four strikers.
Tim Howard· Host0:52
What I'm saying is, if I don't get my pick, if for some reason you take my- No, no, no, no, no, it's not like the NFL Draft- Then I'm gonna change my formation ...
Landon Donovan· Host0:58
where you go, like, best available player. You have to pick your team. It's a team.
Tim Howard· Host1:03
You miss what I'm saying. But go ahead.
Landon Donovan· Host1:05
All right, whatever.
Tim Howard· Host1:05
Yeah.
Landon Donovan· Host1:05
All right, I'm gonna flip a coin. You ready?
Tim Howard· Host1:06
Yep.
Landon Donovan· Host1:07
In the air, heads or tails?
Tim Howard· Host1:08
I'm calling it, tails.
Landon Donovan· Host1:09
Oh, shoot. It is- Tails it is ... heads. On my dad's life, heads.
Tim Howard· Host1:13
Okay, you wanna go first?
Landon Donovan· Host1:14
Uh, do I wanna go first? Yeah, I wanna go first.
Tim Howard· Host1:17
[laughs] Oh, my- With the first overall pick- [laughs] ...
Landon Donovan· Host1:21
in our draft, I am taking the man from New Jersey, Minister of Defense, Timothy-