About this episode

In this live episode, Gary discusses Landon Donovan's comments on youth soccer and answers audience questions.

We just dropped our first-ever live show, and the questions came flying in. Gary opened by addressing Landon Donovan’s recent comments about youth players building out from the back instead of getting thousands of touches. We explain exactly why that take misses the deeper structural problems in American soccer and why former pros who never […]

People in this episode

Host: Gary

Topics covered

• youth soccer
• American soccer
• Landon Donovan
• live show
• Q&A

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