Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
MLS 2025 Season Preview, USMNT Injuries, The Merseyside Derby, and USL's New First Division
Tue, 18 Feb 2025
It’s time for the 2025 MLS season! On Unfiltered Soccer, Landon Donovan and Tim Howard preview the upcoming MLS season including BIG transfers, the new San Diego FC, and the league’s twelve new coaches. There’s lots of injuries plaguing the U.S. Men’s National Team at the minute, and Gio Reyna is averaging 2 minutes of playing time per game this season at Borussia Dortmund, but Weston McKennie’s wearing the armband at Juventus! Plus that INSANE equalizer in the last Merseyside Derby at Goodison Park, and the new USL first division could bring promotion and relegation to the U.S. We’re talking MLS in the AT&T Fan Connection and four nations hockey in Anything But Soccer. 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
Chapter 1: How is the MLS evolving in the 2025 season?
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My guy, LD, what's happening?
We are back. We are back.
You look like you might be playing golf after this show.
You know, mate, it is going to be 72 today. A bit warm, so I didn't put the sweater on. Yeah, it's a normal February day here.
You are. It's not normal February day here. Maybe it is. It's like We're in between snowstorms in New York. It's absolutely Baltic outside, but here we are.
You chose to live there, just as a reminder.
Best city in the world, so I'm here.
No, I mean, I agree to disagree. Agree to disagree.
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Chapter 2: What are the big offseason MLS moves and transfers?
Yeah. I mean, it's hard to argue with Landon's point about, like, can you be a good team and have a good run and get into the playoffs and feel really good about yourselves? Yeah. And then you run into the buzzsaw of what is LA galaxy. And then you're like, Jesus, you know, like, but that was built in a very short period of time too. Right. Like the most recent galaxy success. So yeah,
Yeah, but they spent, Tim. I know, I know. The example is Colorado last year. They were great. They get into the playoff. Was it a two-game? Well, it was a two- or three-game series. They go to the Galaxy, and bang, it's 5-0. Like, Peck and Paintsill and Yeovil. They just can't compete with that.
I mean, the one question I would have is, am I still a part of the Red Bull? Like, am I a part of this history? Because I was a Metro star.
He's trying to get out of it.
I don't know if that's gone away. But what I would say, though, the negative for those three teams, we said Dallas, New England, and Red Bull, is you've had more cracks at it than anybody else.
Yeah, that's right. And you had cracks when there were like 10 teams in the league. 10 teams.
And by the way, and you went through moments where you spent. Red Bull spent, by the way. Marquez, Henri, Cahill, like they spent and still no success, like big success to speak of. So hopefully they get that right.
Here's a question from Jake. What's one MLS matchup you'd like to see become a derby that currently isn't?
Hmm.
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