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The Colin Cowherd Podcast

Colin Cowherd & Landon Donovan react to World Cup Draw: Expectations For Spain Star Lamine Yamal? Group I Is The “Group Of Death”

The Colin Cowherd Podcast

iHeartPodcasts and The Volume

Sports, News, Basketball, Football, Sports News

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Colin is joined by U.S. Men's soccer legend Landon Donovan and host of the “Unfiltered Soccer” podcast with Tim Howard to preview the 2026 World Cup.

They preview Group F led by the Netherlands and Landon explains that while he doesn’t think the Dutch can win it all… they definitely have the talent to do so (:30). 

Landon explains why Egypt won’t be able to beat Belgium in Group G despite having international superstar Mo Salah (2:00).

They move to Spain’s Group H and Landon explains just how prodigal of a talent Spanish star Lamine Yamal is relative to the greatest players in the world (3:15). 

Finally, they preview Group I, the “group of death” featuring France, Senegal and Norway and break down how talented the current French team is compared to their World Cup winning teams of the past (4:45). 

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0:00.0

The Volume.

0:02.0

Today's World Cup Draw Reaction is presented by Haleon, the maker of Advil, Centrum, Tums,

0:08.0

Sensadine, and Voltaren.

0:10.0

They've teamed up with U.S. soccer for the assist, a campaign celebrating all the moments

0:15.0

of support that make the big goals possible, because every goal starts with an assist.

0:19.0

In the history of the every goal starts with an assist.

0:27.3

In the history of the United States men's national team,

0:33.6

the man you're looking at has the most goals and most assists in the history of our country.

0:36.5

And we have ourselves a World Cup.

0:40.0

Group F is Netherlands, who, of course, knocked us out dominating performer, Japan, Tunisia, and a European playoff winner, which could be Poland,

0:47.0

Sweden, Ukraine, Albania. Give me your thoughts on Netherlands going into this. They were an old World Cup team, an experienced team, last World Cup, which tells me they're

0:59.8

probably in a bit of a transition stage.

1:02.1

A little bit, but they have some young stars.

1:04.3

This is a team that's sneaky that no one's talking about.

1:07.7

I don't think, Colin, they can, I don't think they can win it, but they certainly

1:11.9

have the ability to. They have the quality. They have a, and still probably the best centerback

1:17.8

and best defender in the world in Virgil Van Dyke. They have Shavi Simons, who's a really

1:22.3

talented attacking midfielder. And then they just have good quality all over the field.

1:31.5

But they're a little bit one of these teams that sort of, if things go poorly, it can go poorly and unravel really fast.

1:33.9

And France is a bit like that too just off the field and emotionally and with the press

1:37.8

and the pressure.

1:38.7

It can go bad pretty fast.

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